Every word Ange Postecoglou said on Cristian Romero injury, Van de Ven return and transfer news

What's the latest injury news?

It’s not so great with Romero. He had a scan the other day. He’s got a hamstring strain. So we’re looking at probably four weeks, five weeks for him. Everyone else from the last game …. yeah, it was pretty demanding physically in terms of the numbers we generated that day. Both us and Everton. It was quite extraordinary. So fair to say the boys were a bit fatigued but had a couple of easier days so everyone else should be OK.

How disappointing is it to lose Cristian and does it accelerate any January plans?

No, it doesn’t change anything. Disappointing to lose him, for sure. We obviously missed him with the suspension and now, we’d just got him back and kind of steadied things up and obviously we have him missing again for quite a chunk of time. But it doesn’t change really … you can’t accelerate time, mate. It’s still December. January 1st stays January 1st irrespective of our situation. The plans and the planning is still in the same shape.

Do you have a date yet when Son, Bissouma and Sarr will leave next month?

Not yet, it won't affect the New Year's Eve game. We're just in dialogue now with the three lads. Bissouma will leave a bit earlier, he is suspended. Pape and Sonny, it will be some time in early January but we haven't got official confirmation yet.

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Is Richarlison playing better because he's freer from the injury before?

Yeah, like I said, I've said a few times, they're human beings and when you don't feel 100% in yourself, whether it's physically or mentally that's going to affect your