Chadi Riad Dnanou Injuries

'Unfortunately, Cheick Doucoure and Chadi Riad both have knee injuries and aren't available for Sunday. The doctors have to look at them, and let's see how it goes, but no [we don't have a timeframe for their return] at the moment.' 'Chadi has ruptured his ACL, so we have lost [him] for the rest of the season and even longer. There was no impact, and Chadi as well, it was just a normal situation in training ' so it's really frustrating.' 'We think Chadi will return after his ACL [injury] in October or November. Now it looks like the timeline of Cheicky is more or less the same.' 'Chadi looks like he will return around the next international break, so it’s good.' 'Unfortunately, we expected him now. We have five games, and especially from Thursday to Saturday, we have four games in nine days. I think after this period, he will be with us.' 'We have Chadi Riad, who will come back in the next two weeks and start training with us.' 'Yesterday, he was allowed to train with the team, and he had yesterday’s session and today’s session. He will be in the matchday squad tomorrow. He won’t get minutes, to be honest, but it's just being involved in the matchday squad again. Now it’s [time] to build him up step by step. He needs training rhythm and playing a few minutes with the U-21s to get back into the game rhythm. No pressure - no rush.' 'He trained [on Wednesday], and then he slipped, and he had a little bit of reaction in his knee. I spoke to him, and he preferred to watch the game from the stand.' 'Chadi is a little tricky. It’s always a little up and down. We have 2-3 days where it looks really good, but then there are one or two where it doesn’t. He’s not always training. It’s a daily decision. We are just doing the best for him. We want to be really cautious because he’s been out for such a long time.' 'Chadi is doing better - he's now taking part in team training, and now, it’s of course, keeping him in training, seeing how he reacts and getting him back into his best shape. That's why he needs sessions with the U21s. If you feel right, then it's the right moment - I don’t know when it will happen.' '(Riad) has been out for one year. And he was going up to Nottingham to play on Friday night [for the U21s], but he will be in the matchday squad tomorrow. Sometimes things come quicker than expected. He has had one full training week with us, but did really well this week.'

'I spoke to him. I spoke to the doctor. We have to wait for the scan tomorrow. Of course, we all hope that it's not too serious. We'll get the result tomorrow after the scan.' 'It looks like something happened with the ligament in his knee. We all hope it was not too serious. It looks like to me he will at least miss the Chelsea game on Sunday.' 'It is a little bit questionable at the minute. It looked really bad, and the next day, he was very stiff in his knee. The examinations were not so bad, but also not clear enough by the next day, so we have to wait now for the next two weeks to get the right diagnosis. It doesn’t look so serious; we will miss him definitely for several weeks, but it looks like the ACL is not ruptured, which is very important.' 'The doctors told us it will take eight to 12 weeks, so yes, a little bit of time. At the beginning we all thought maybe it's worse, but the ACL is not ruptured, so that's important - but it will take several weeks.' 'I don’t expect [him] to play before the next international break in November.' 'The game is too early. Especially for Chadi, because he has been out for three-and-a-half months now. He will play with the U21s on Tuesday, getting his first 45 minutes in three months. He's doing really well.'