Cheick Doucoure Injuries

'Unfortunately, Cheick and Chadi Riad both have knee injuries and aren't available for Sunday's game. 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.' 'After further assessments, Cheicky needs surgery on his knee, so we have lost [him] for the rest of the season. We hope [he] will return for pre-season.' 'Cheick had a setback... we don’t know when he will return. He’s still not able to train, his knee's reacting, so especially for him, it’s tough, where he’s not in the training and playing rhythm, coming in every single day and working the gym, working rehab, and then you get a bad reaction in your knee again. He gets all our support - but he won’t be back for the next couple of months.' 'We hoped that Cheicky could return for the Austria camp for training. We think Chadi [Riad] will return after his ACL [injury] in October or November. Now it looks like the timeline of Cheicky is more or less the same.' 'It takes time. I can’t tell you the date Cheicky will be back with us. [It's about] getting him stable and consistent. He also had a setback, so he will be out for a few weeks.' 'Cheick... It was the first time - just for 20 minutes in the warm-up, in the rondo - that he was part of the group. He had his surgery on 28th January last year, so one year ago, and everybody was pleased for him.' 'The only ones are Cheick - there's still a long way to go for him - and Eddie Nketiah.'

'He has some [injury] to do with the tendon on the toe. We will miss him for several weeks. The tendon has to heal, so it's a little bit of a bad situation, but he will be back in a few weeks. We are pleased that it's not so serious because it was so painful that there was a worry. He's already working for his comeback.' 'With Cheick, it could be that he joins training in the second week of the international break.' 'It looks like Cheick will train with us after the [Forest] game - at least part of the sessions - so he's maybe the guy who is closest to returning.' 'Cheick has had just one training session with us this week, but it will still take time, so it is the same squad.' 'Doucoure will be back in the squad maybe earlier than we expected. Of course, we're missing many players now. For sure, he can't be at 100 per cent, but it's important that he's with us.'

'I hope it’s nothing serious with Cheick today, but it looks not serious.'

'He's got a bad injury. I'll let the doctor deal with that first. It's not going to be an injury that keeps him out for a short period of time.' 'It's bad. He's snapped his Achilles tendon, so it's a question of how long that takes [to heal]. It could take as long as the end of the season, but of course, one remains optimistic. It's a massive blow.' 'I’m not a doctor so I don’t know exactly, but maybe Cheick is the one who will come back latest from all the injuries.'

'Cheick hasn't trained his week until today, but he came through today's training, so he's also available.'

'Doucoure this whole week was training normally - there was no mention that he was fatigued or suffering from some sort of muscle soreness or awareness.'

'He's feeling a little bit of injuries. Yesterday, he tried to train, but he was too short, and the best decision was not to get him involved for the game today.' 'Cheick started his first training session with the team today, so we’ll wait for tomorrow to see the reaction.'