Chadi Riad

Riad (knee) is an option for Saturday's match against Sunderland, according to manager Oliver Glasner. "He has been out for one year...and he was going up to Nottingham to play on Friday night [for the under-21s], but he will be in the matchday squad tomorrow. Sometimes things come quicker than expected. He has had one full training week with us, but did really well this week."

Riad (knee) is progressing well and resumed team training partially, although he remains one month away from resuming real football training with the squad, coach Oliver Glasner said in a press conference. "Chadi is doing better - he's now taking part in team training and now, it's of course, giving him training after training, seeing how the knee reacts and getting him back into this best shape. But I think it's now almost one year - from when we saw the first injury, one-and-a-half years. One week up or down is not important - it's just being consistently in training and starting to get minutes in the Under-21s, then being back for us. Yes, he had full training today, but it was matchday minus one training and after the warm-up, we had 15 minutes of tactical training, and then set-plays, so it's important for him to get real football training, intense training with duels, which we won't have until the middle of January."

Riad (knee) is not ready to play games and no risk will be taken with the defender, coach Oliver Glasner said in a press conference, according to the News Shopper. "He's not ready to play games. Also not for the Under-21s, we don't want to risk anything. It's really about supporting him to come closer and closer to perform consistently."

Riad (knee) has suffered a setback and will miss further time, accoridng to manager Oliver Galsner. "He trained [Wednesday] and then he slipped and he had a little bit of reaction in his knee. Then I spoke to him, and he preferred to watch the game from the stand."

Riad (knee) was expected to be available for Thursday's clash against AZ but ultimately missed out as a precaution, according to Bobby Manzi from GiveMeSport.