Stoke

TPulis confirmed on Stoke twitter – injuries – Whelan has had scan on his hamstring today – fingers crossed for Adam and Walters with slight knocks but should be OK

Newcastle

From the official site Alan Pardew

“We’ve got a few problems,” explained the Magpies’ manager.
“Cabaye didn’t play for France and it doesn’t look like he’s going to play for us at the weekend either.
“Jonas will be missing, Coloccini will be missing but Shola looks okay.
“A couple of the guys (who were on international duty) are coming in tomorrow (Friday) morning so it has really stagnated the week again for us, not unlike a lot of teams in the Premier League.
“But we have got enough quality in the squad to put a good side out on Saturday, for sure.”
 
“With Papiss we have a bit of an issue going on at the moment with the (Senegalese Football) Federation.
“We feel we covered all the bases in giving them information but they seem to have not received it.
“So we are in discussions with Senegal and the FA about his availability for Saturday.
“We gave a report and an email straight after the game saying that at half-time he was feeling his back. We took him off and our doctor also sent reports on the injury.
“We didn’t, as far as I’m aware, get too much information back and now it seems that Senegal are upset that he didn’t appear for them.
“Somewhere down the line there has been something lost in translation there and we are trying to sort that out.
“Hopefully it will be cleared for Papiss to play on Saturday and clear for him to continue with Senegal going forward, because nobody wants any bad feeling.”

Man U

SAF from mixture sport

“We’ve still got some doubts about Wayne and Jonny Evans,” said Sir Alex. “I think Robin should be fit. We’ll see what they are like today but there is a doubt.

“Phil Jones has been training all week. We will take him to Turkey [to play Galatasaray in the Champions League] with us. He’ll get part of it there, which is a good start for him.”

Look for Smalling to line up again.

Everton

From Everton official twitter

 TEAM NEWS: Kevin Mirallas and Darron Gibson both miss the trip to Reading.

Naismith to start?

Fulham

Fulham official twitter

Martin Jol says Diarra remains a ‘big doubt’ for Sunday’s game with Sunderland, while Richardson will be out for around 10 days

Sidwell should start instead.  Makes Baird safer

QPR

QPR official twitter:  Fabio back in the squad; Zamora struggling; Park not ready; Dyer available

Look for Cisse to start

Sunderland

Twitter news on Sunderland:  Cattermole less likely to feature. MoN taking it ‘day-by-day’ and will make a late decision. 

Colback to continue

MoN says Fletcher and Bardsley ‘have a chance’ of playing at Fulham on Sunday.

More likelihood of a Fulham clean sheet!

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