So Much For The Luxury Of Selection

Graeme Souness: "Ideally I would like a month's break, then I would possibly have them all back. Two weeks is fine by me. I am like all our supporters who will be interested in seeing what all these players are like - they don't know a lot about Luque or Emre.

"I want to see Nobby (Solano) on the pitch, and the others on the pitch all working together - then we will see if we made good decisions in the summer.

"If everybody is fit, I would have decisions to make, but at this time, I have got no decisions to make - they are made for me.  When they are all fit, I will have some sleepless nights worrying about what XI I am putting on the pitch.

"Maybe a little bit of magic which might have got us a goal was missing on Saturday. We are not doing cartwheels back up to Newcastle, but I am not putting my head in the oven either."