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Van Nistelrooy expects to be able to give a date over his number one’s scheduled return next week. “We don’t have a date yet,” van Nistelrooy said on Hermansen. “It’s a work in progress on his rehab. He’s making small steps in the right direction at the moment. Hopefully some time next week, there can be an update on when he can be back.”

Last update was last week Jan 09: 'He’s continuing his individual training. He’s not yet with the team. He’s pushing harder on an individual basis. Hopefully, we can welcome him to team training over the coming weeks.'

Surely they take that

Exits? “We’re looking at Tom Cannon’s situation very closely. What is best for him and for the club. There’s a possibility of loans being looked at, but other than that we want to keep the team together.”

Ruud Van Nistelrooy Pre-Match Press Conference vs Fulham Coulibaly available? “Today he wasn’t able to train with the team yet because we are finalising the paperwork. If he can train tomorrow, we will see. We’ll see if we can get him involved in the game on Saturday.” Confident in Coulibaly? “I’m convinced. It was a long spell where we were talking with the scouts about him and looking at clips and making the required phone calls on his character. It’s all positive. In that sense it’s a match. The position, the physical qualities.” More signings coming? “We’re working on it, every possibility we can add. Permanents and loans. Coulibaly is a good option for us. We needed an extra right-back because of the injury to Ricardo. Hopefully we can add more.” Need a centre-back and a striker? “We’re looking at all options that can strengthen our team. It’s important to emphasise the number of chances we are creating is okay. It’s a matter of time before those chances are taken. The concern is the chances we are conceding. With Coulibaly it helps us to strengthen our defence and allows us to rotate more.” Exits? “We’re looking at Tom Cannon’s situation very closely. What is best for him and for the club. There’s a possibility of loans being looked at, but other than that we want to keep the team together.” Injuries? “There’s no injury news from yesterday’s game and no players coming back for Saturday.” Are you fed up of good performances but no points? “We’ve talked about it for a while now. We need to turn those performances into points. Desperately we want to be out of that situation by the end of May and every game we don’t collect, that’s one game gone and it makes it more difficult. There are three or four teams very close who are dropping points and that makes it possible.” Tougher start than expected? “I have to say that from the first day I joined, I said it would go to the last day, this battle. You have hopes that you can surprise and get results early, so in that sense, it’s disappointing that didn’t happen. There is patience required for a six-week start in the collaboration between me and the club and there needs to be belief that on this path, we will turn performances into points. This one hurts, but today you get up, work with the players, analyse where we can be better and shake it off. Less than two days we are back on the pitch again.” Lowest you've felt last night. How feeling now? “A lot better. The disappointment after the game, we all shared. The dressing room was the same. This game was one we were looking to prove our development. With the chances we created, we felt we should have been on top. The second half they were on top.” How to keep spirits up? “It’s what we’re here for. We want to show what we’re about. I want to show what I’m about when things are not going your way. Sir Bobby always said: ‘when the going gets tough, the tough get going.’ That’s what I thought about this morning.” Spirits? “When you’re in a tough moment as a player, you want to see the manager how he reacts, and when you see spirit and character and belief, you join him on the path to success. We can only turn it around with hard work and togetherness. We’re capable of showing that on Saturday. Fulham? “It’s an organised team. They have very good profiles in positions. It’s the team that crosses the most in the league, with the full-backs. They are high in the league and they’re doing well.” Relief over PSR? “We were focused on football. The rest is out of our hands. That stays the same.” Coulibaly? “He’s a strong, powerful player. He’s good at defending one-v-ones. He can play low, in the middle, high. He knows how we want to play and the role of the full-back. He’s very hard-working. He’s a good character. He’s at an age where he’s at the start of the prime of his career. We need to make him feel at home so he can make an impact immediately.” More challenging than expected? “In the sense of the Premier League, no. I knew what to expect. Being at Manchester United and as part of the backroom staff and managing the four games, you know how tough it is. Coming here, there is belief there that this squad can stay up, but we know historically that as a promoted side, you’re battling to stay up. That’s an extremely big challenge.” Balance of addressing issues without harming belief? “You can give brutal honesty with the intention of making everyone better. It’s never wrong to address things. That’s a mutual feeling with players.” Fans? “It’s important for us to keep giving signals that we’re trying. We kept pushing for the goal, Soumare against the crossbar, Daka’s chance. It’s up to us to keep the crowd lifted.”

That was for defaulting on payments to other clubs, not to do with FFP/PSR

People going on about points deductions, transfer embargos etc. from the EFL… Are they even going to be able to actually do anything like that?

Good for the Championship, crap for the Prem - which isn’t his fault really It is all on the club for not getting any serious competition for him

Everytime I see him on the pitch for us I just get a reminder of how ****ing stupid we are as a club

The vast majority in the stadium wont make a peep Will be clapping them all off at the end of the season when we are relegated again

How many consecutive league losses for him to get the sack? Other than maybe Southampton towards the end of the season it is just so hard to see a game where we realistically even get a point

There it is

Yeah Fatawu wasn’t included in the 25 man squad due to his age

Iversen’s contract is up in the summer and I expect he will finally want to get away from us

Problem is if Hermansen is out proper long term and whether Ruud is happy with Iversen as 2nd choice (Ward seemingly no longer an option) We are going to need 1 new keeper this summer anyway

All permanent offers then rather than loan with obligations

Both of the deals on the table from Sunderland and Sheff Utd are loans with obligations based on promotion I wouldn’t say it really gives us much if any more money to spend in this window

Yep, and for the senior team in the Carabao Cup so he will be the same if he comes back

Played for our under 21s in the EFL trophy so now has to stay here like Braybrooke Absolute muppets playing them in that game