Antonio update
The exciting midfielder/striker was forced to miss yesterday’s game against Bournemouth after a scan showed he had liquid on his hamstring.
And we were told that it would have been “very dangerous” to play him and could have led to a long lay-off had he done so.
However, the medical assessment is that he has a good chance of appearing at Bramall Lane although our insider explained by e mail that “absolutely no chance will be taken given his history of problems with hammies.
Typically, Antonio was desperately keen to play, but the club were having none of it and thankfully the team more than did the business without him.
There’s near despair behind the scenes at the situation surrounding Jack Wilshere who has had injury after injury interspersed with various sickness bugs.
The club insist they won’t pay him off this summer but it would some as no surprise were they to change their minds.