Slaven Bilic is expecting Diafra Sakho way ahead of schedule.

The manager has reported  the striker is in decent shape and said:  “We would look for him to return by the beginning of February.”

And he added that Victor Moses too was close to a recall explaining: “He will rejoin the first team squad this week – that’s the plan.”

He said: “I don’t believe we will have a repeat of the situation we have had in the first half of the season with injuries but were we to, we have show we can cope with situations, however big.

“So we are not going to be active in the transfer market. We always believed we had done our business in the summer and we will not buy simply because it is time to buy.

“There is no point in having two or three back up players who are not going to play – we have a squad that can cope. It would have to be something exceptional to come along”