Newcastle United manager Steve Bruce has provided a positive injury update on Callum Wilson, Allan Saint-Maximin and Miguel Almiron.
The trio are all currently sidelined for the Magpies and are supposedly all due back around the same time.
Wilson limped out of the Southampton game last month with what transpired to be hamstring tear.
A couple of weeks later, Miguel Almiron and Allan Saint-Maximin would both get injured against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
A statement from the club read that both would be out ‘until April’, which might have meant mid or late.
But Bruce has today spoken about the three players and it seems early April is likelier.
He said in his press conference (via Shields Gazette): “He’s (Wilson) four weeks in. We’re seeing him on the grass, and he’s progressing.
“That goes for Allan and Almiron as well, you know. We’ve just got to let nature take it’s course. They’re working as hard as they possibly can.
“We hope, with the international break maybe doing us a turn, so we hope, by the end of the international break, they’ll be there or thereabouts.”
Newcastle first game after the international break is against Tottenham Hotspur on April 3, with games against Aston Villa and Brighton to come next.
A shred of good news
It isn’t much, but at least the three players should be coming back at the start of April rather than any later, if Bruce is to be believed.
The Spurs game will be tough and so having at least one of the trio available for that clash will be most welcome.
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