Newcastle injury update as Joelinton missing from training

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Daniel Wales and Joe Buck discuss the latest Newcastle United injury news.

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00:00Now Newcastle United were without midfielder Joe Linton on Saturday as

00:05they defeated Ipswich Town by three goals to nil with Joe Willock having to

00:09deputise for the absent Brazilian midfielder who was missing because of a

00:14knee injury. It's been an injury that he's been carrying for some time now in

00:19the Premier League and of course the Carabao Cup as well nursing it but

00:25getting through games probably most likely via painkillers but now he's had

00:30to miss a game there are concerns over how significant this injury is. Joe Linton

00:34was said to have gone to see a specialist at the weekend and he also wasn't

00:39pictured in training ahead of Newcastle's trip to the South Coast to face Brighton

00:43and Hove Albion which is a bit of a concern. Newcastle had also had concerns

00:47over Fabian Scherr and Harvey Barnes ahead of the Ipswich win but they were both

00:50fit to play. So let's go now to Joe Buck of the Shields Gazette. Joe what's the

00:56thoughts on Joe Linton? How big of a miss is he? Especially if he's not fit for the

01:01Brighton fixture at the weekend but also just on a more positive injury note the

01:06return of Sven Botman to Newcastle United's squad against Ipswich was a

01:11significant boost for Eddie Howe's side. So looking at that as well as Joe Linton

01:15one out one back in. How's the injury picture looking for Newcastle at the

01:20moment and is it just a case of now players needing to get to the end of

01:24the season? There's only four games left there's no major international tournaments

01:27to play this summer. Is it just a case of players getting through these last four

01:32games and in Joe Linton's case if he's not fit for Brighton trying to get back

01:35for Chelsea and hopefully playing perhaps through a little bit of pain maybe

01:39adding some painkillers if necessary to get him through the last couple of games?

01:43Yeah I think the one with the Joe Linton injury for me feels like it's one he

01:47could probably play with he has been playing with it Eddie Howe admitted he's

01:50been playing with it for you know since he came back really before the cup

01:53final because getting him back for the cup final was really important and

01:55obviously they did that and was it because it was Ipswich you know is that

01:59but I think the thing actually if if Joe Linton's gonna miss a game he missed a

02:02game at Portman Road due to suspension you know and that was that was all

02:06fine so would that be a game maybe that went in their thinking but I would

02:09obviously we'll wait for the update but I'll be surprised if Joe Linton's not

02:13someone who could he could probably play the next four games with you know

02:16painkillers or whatever else to do it so I imagine that if if he needs to be

02:19available then he will be I think the Brighton they could probably get away with

02:23this again but I think against Chelsea he's shown in the past that he can be a

02:25real force in that midfield and the one and back for them games and but yeah you

02:31know it was good to see Sven Botman back as well of course he that was a real

02:34boost to see him even just for a little bit at the end and as you say you know

02:37you've got Fabian Cher and Dan Byrne have been brilliant this year but they're both

02:40the other side of 30 you know they've both played a lot of games so even if

02:43you can have Botman in just to come on at the end in case Cher's feeling his

02:46hamstring or just to give someone a rest it is a good thing to have and really

02:49excited to see him back to his best next year but yeah I think and Gordon as well

02:53as the other one I said he had said probably not match fit with his knee injury

02:56but it is good to see them getting back to pretty much full complement of

03:00obviously Lewis Hall and maybe Jamal LaSalle and hopefully as you say they're just

03:04going to get through four games if the players can manage it without there's no

03:07obviously major tournaments this summer as well so all these players hopefully

03:10know that they've literally got four 90 minutes worth of action and that's

03:14done so yeah it seems they're in a good place I think we all miss the Sven

03:18Botman you know played in the first year obviously he's had two really bad injury

03:21hit campaigns and yeah hopefully getting him back is going to be really good because

03:26even when he came out in January he looked really good for them two months he was

03:29excellent against Arsenal particularly both of them games in the in the

03:33Caravan Cup so yeah having him back is going to be a major boost and you know who

03:37knows who if he starts next year because to be fair Sharon Burn they're going to

03:40someone's going to have to do a lot to displace them as stars but yeah having

03:44Botman back is just fantastic news for Nick that's one with lots of games hopefully

03:48getting played or certainly they'll have eight Champions League games and

03:51hopefully more that they're going to know that these players are going to get

03:54game you know game time and that they can be rotated so when they're playing

03:58away in midweek somewhere in Europe that you know there'll be a different

04:01set the back partnership almost entirely maybe the weekend or vice versa so I

04:05think they have big roles to play everyone all the squads are like the big

04:08characters on there there are lots of leaders in that group and none of them

04:11will want to be on the bench but a lot of them do have a lot of and still

04:16stuff still to offer the team even if they're on the wrong side of 30 so yeah

04:19it'll be interesting summer because they probably need four or five positions

04:23really strengthen as in like first team ready players but the as much as they will

04:26have money this year they're not gonna have money to strengthen four or five

04:28first team because that's you know you're talking 200 300 million for that and but

04:33it's nice to have all these options and you know we saw in the beginning this year

04:36with Tonali come back you mentioned it was all before these new signings even

04:40though they've been at the club Botman is almost a bit like that that next year he

04:43can sort of be a new signing

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