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10.03am GMT
West Ham have underlined their determination not to lose their best young talents after finally agreeing a new deal with Conor Coventry, who was out of contract out in the summer and a target for a number of clubs this month.
Talks with Coventry have been going on since the start of the season and West Ham had grown concerned that they would lose the midfielder, with clubs in the Championship and abroad expressing an interest in the 19-year-old.
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Newcastle have injury problems of their own. Steve Bruce, whose side travel to Rochdale tomorrow, was forced to see his side play almost all of the second half against Leicester on New Year’s Day with 10 men after Jetro Willems, Javier Manquillo and Jonjo Shelvey were substituted with injuries, but then Fabian Schär also limped off. Jamaal Lascelles, Ciaran Clark and Paul Dummett were already on the club’s injury list.
Bruce told reporters this morning:
I’ve never known a 15 minutes like it. I did predict a month ago that the schedule was ridiculous and we don’t have the resources to have huge rotation, so unfortunately when you keep asking players to play tired. Up until Saturday, our record for this season was far better than last year in terms of injuries, especially soft tissue injuries.
“Matt Ritchie and Lascelles in particular were impacts – there’s not much you can do about that – and the one thing you want to be doing with the sports science that we have today is the prevention of injuries and especially soft tissue injuries. It’s just the number of games in a short period of time and asking footballers to play tired, and unfortunately we’ve picked up the consequences of it, so it is what it is. We have to accept it and move on.” Continue reading...