Slaven promises to sort out player issues

Slaven Bilic remains a little detached from the incidents surrounding the infamous players’ night out revealing for the second week that he is focused only focused on the weekend game.

But he insists the matter will be dealt with once he has facts to go on saying: “I can deal with what goes on on the training ground and on the pitch but this takes a bit longer.

He said: “We are a proper professional club and we will sort it out but I am not looking into this on a daily basis. However, we will sort the isues out but as I say we canot rely on photos and gossip.”

He explained: “I must focus on Saturday’s match and it will be tough. Sunderland and David Moyes will be under pressure but he is a great manager.”