Pardew Confirms Cabaye & Taylor Out For 6-8 Weeks

Newcastle United have suffered another injury blow with both Steven Taylor and Yohan Cabaye being ruled out for up to eight weeks with their respective injuries. Cabaye, who picked up a groin injury against West Ham two weeks ago has already undergone one round of surgery but is set for a second bout within the next 24 hours, whilst Taylor picked up a hamstring problem against Southampton at the weekend.

Pardew confirmed the Taylor injury when he said;

"It probably is. It's about six to eight weeks, we think, so it's another blow. We are in a run of bad luck for us.

He's an important player and we hope for a speedy recovery. He's cursing his luck a little bit, but unfortunately for Steven, his record is that he does pick up injuries.

Maybe the fact that we have had to call upon him more than perhaps we would like with the injuries and Colo's suspension has probably compounded the issue."

On Cabaye he added:

"He's had one side of his groin done and that caused a potential weakness in the other side, so that needs to be done. That will be done, I think, today or tomorrow and he will probably be out for eight weeks.

We are probably looking at February 1 for both he and Steven, so we might as well get the bad news out of the way, because that's what it is, and just focus on what is important, and that's what we have got left."

Newcastle are currently with 8 players out injured. Hatem Ben Arfa (hamstring), Shola Ameobi (groin), Ryan Taylor (knee), Gabriel Obertan (toe), Dan Gosling (knee) and Haris Vuckic (knee) are also all sidelined.