Eddie Howe issues Nick Pope injury update ahead of Newcastle’s trip to Southampton

Nick Pope is ‘back successful the mix’ aft a genu wounded and could beryllium progressive for Newcastle erstwhile they marque the travel to Southampton connected Saturday.

The England planetary has been retired for implicit a period with a genu injury, past playing successful a 4-2 decision to Brentford connected 7 December.

The Magpies person been successful good signifier without him, winning 9 games connected the spin, though that tally was brought to an extremity by a 4-1 decision to Bournemouth past clip out.

Howe volition anticipation to get backmost to winning ways astatine Southampton this play and Pope is successful contention, though the manager would not corroborate whether helium oregon Martin Dubravka would beryllium wearing the gloves against the Saints.

‘There’s a accidental he’ll beryllium successful the squad,’ Howe told a property league connected Friday morning.

‘He’s started grooming with the radical again and it’s large to spot Nick backmost and his presence, the positivity that helium brings.

‘I’ve seen him bash immoderate truly bully things this week, truthful yeah, delighted to person him backmost successful the mix.’

Howe confirmed that different England international, Callum Wilson, is inactive sidelined owed to a hamstring issue, but is not acold distant from a return.

‘It’s excessively aboriginal for Callum,’ helium said. ‘Callum’s inactive connected way for returning close astatine the opening of February.

‘He’s making bully progress. We’re trying to bash the close things with him to marque definite that helium is robust capable and has each the enactment down him and the load down him earlier helium starts grooming with the group.

‘But helium seems precise affirmative – what a monolithic subordinate that would beryllium to invited back.’

Howe admitted that his team’s question plans could beryllium disrupted by Storm Eowyn and they whitethorn adjacent person to alert down to Southampton connected Saturday greeting up of the 3pm kick-off.

‘Potentially the question [has been affected], yeah. We’ll spot however contiguous goes,’ helium said. ‘Our plan, arsenic always, is to question today. We’ll question proposal from the authorities. If it’s not harmless to fly, we’ll alert tomorrow.

‘It’s a agelong travel and there’s nary warrant that a 8/9 hr travel won’t crook into a 12/13 hr journey,’ helium said of a autobus trip. ‘So it’s champion we look to bash that [fly].’

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