Carroll is engaged to TV’s The Only Way is Essex ‘star’ Mucklow after asking her to marry him in Rome.
Mucklow posed with a sketch of the two sitting in a restaurant with the Colosseum in the background with ‘Will you marry me?’ written above.
Although a date of November 19 has been given for his return Sam Allardyce hinted a week ago that he could be back before that.
And a source told us: “He has an outside chance of being included in the squad for Saturday’s game.