Norwich City boss Daniel Farke insists Todd Cantwell is fine after missing their friendly defeat to Newcastle United.
Cantwell rolled his ankle on Friday but scans on Saturday morning were encouraging and the attacking midfielder still has a chance of being involved in next week's Premier League kick-off against Liverpool.
"He rolled his ankle on Friday. I know during these times when a player of his calibre is out there is always speculation and that it has something to do with transfers. No, not at all," said the City chief. "The same with Max Aarons who was not involved for the King's Lynn game and people get over-excited.
"Todd has a strain in his ankle ligament. But we scanned it this morning and it is not too bad. We have to wait how it develops. We hope he is available for Liverpool. We had seven who missed out this game due to Covid cases. But the good news is the last 10 days we have had no new cases so from net week on we can involve them all in team training.
"This was a difficult day for us. We had 10 first team outfield players available. Even when we get the other lads back it won't be easy. Milot Rashica, for example, needed a proper pre-season but we had two friendlies cancelled and then he misses the last two because he is a positive case.
"Same for Grant Haney, our club captain, who has not played one minute of pre-season. So that is not ideal for the start of the season. Our pre-season has been interrupted and disturbed and I have mentioned already the first two or three weeks will be bumpy because we need to give these players time on the training pitch. But we don't complain."
