This thread is intended as a one-stop announcement shop for fantasy football managers to catch up with all official, confirmed news and updates on player absences. Types of absences include:

* Injury
* Suspension
* Personal Leave
* International Duty
* Ineligible to play against parent club
* Loan to a non-Premiership club
* Retirement from Football

No discussion allowed - just news items, with links if at all possible.
Do not reply to individual posts except to make corrections or post further salient details/links.
You should expect posts breaking these rules to be binned without warning. There is a separate thread for gossip and discussion on player absences. Please post all injury, suspension, etc. discussion and gossip there.

FISO's injury (and other absence) table can be found here: http://www.fiso.co.uk/injurytable.php
All FISO members are encouraged to add any missing table entries, for moderator approval. Please include links if at all possible. The more people can do this, the better and more up-to-date the table will be.

FFS' table is also good and can be found here: http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/f ... -injuries/
Physioroom is also worth checking: http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_ ... _table.php
Between the three of these, you can pretty much guarantee all absences will be covered, allthough they will likely disagreee on return dates. Sometimes it can be a bit of a dark art working these out.

Arsenal's Abou Diaby will miss the start of the season with a "long-term injury"; Emmenuel Eboue also said to be injured.

Fulham's Simon Davies out for a month with knee injury

Liverpool's Steven Gerrard almost certain to miss start of season and may be out until mid-September, as he recovers from groin op

Newcastle's Hatem Ben Arfa out for 3 weeks plus, with a new ankle injury

Everton's Miklel Arteta out of pre-season and possibly more, with foot injury

Worth noting that the following players have suspensions carrying over from last season:

• Chelsea's Daniel Sturridge - 1 game
• Everton's Diniyar Bilyaletdinov - 2 games
• Everton's Seamus Coleman - 1 game
• Soon to be West Brom's(?) Zoltan Gera - 3 games (also injured)
• Manchester City's Kolo Toure - banned until 2 September

Garry Monk has given himself a 50-50 chance of being fit for Swansea City's Premier League opener at Manchester City.

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Garry ... story.html

Sturridge is banned for 3 games (straight red)

Javier Hernandez - "mild concussion" - "out for a couple of weeks"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14318453.stm

(NOTE - that should mean he is Ok for the first league game)

EDIT - a bit more on the club website

".....he probably wouldn't have been playing in a couple of weeks anyway because he's just come back from his break after playing in the Gold Cup for Mexico. He wasn't going to be involved in our team for two or three weeks.”

Arsenal's young midfielder Conor Henderson out for six months plus, with a cruciate.

Manchester City's Michael Johnson on season-long loan to Leicester City.

Arsenal's Abou Diaby confirmed as injured (had ankle op during break) and is due back at end of August (not in 8-10 weeks time as some reports are suggesting).

Arsenal's Theo Walcott is out for ten days with ankle injury so should be fit for the EPL opener.

Liverpool's Pepe Reina had double hernia op in the summer but should also be fit for start of season.

Bolton confirm Lee blow
Winger out for nine months after breaking his leg in two places

Bolton Wanderers winger Chung-yong Lee faces at least nine months on the sidelines after breaking his leg against Newport County.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528, ... 94,00.html

More confirmed player absences...

Arsenal's Jack Wilshere picks up ankle inflmmation that should heal before the new season starts but could well miss England game.

Manchester City's Abdisalam Ibrahim has joined NEC Nijmegen on a season-long loan deal.
West Brom's Boaz Myhill on season-long loan to Hull

Wolves' Adlene Guedioura out for up at least six weeks after ankle op

Dalglish said: "Steven won't be too far away. The tests that have come back are far better than what was anticipated, so we are delighted by that. We've had some very positive news and will just wait for the progress to continue."

"We've had positive news but the date (of a return) the club has stated remains the same."

Liverpool (Daily Post) Update

Martin Skrtel likely to miss the start of the season as he continues to struggle with a calf problem. He pulled out of his country’s squad for the friendly against Austria next week.

“I suffered an injury setback on Friday,” said Skrtel. “I felt strong pain in my leg so I am back with the doctors receiving treatment. I really don’t know how long will it take to heal. I am doing my best to be back as soon as possible.”

Dalglish confirmed: “Martin has not joined in with us yet (in training). So we will wait and see.”

Dalglish also revealed Fabio Aurelio has resumed training.

John O’Pies will miss Sunderland’s final friendly at Hibs on Saturday AND the start of the Premier League season.

The Manchester United utility player has been recuperating from a hamstring strain suffered in Germany but was expected to play in Sunderland’s final pre-season friendly and be ready for the season’s opener against Liverpool.

But that timetable is now out of the window, with O’Shea still far from 100 per cent fit.

“O’Shea’s still feeling his hamstring,” said assistant manager Eric Black.

“It’s hard to put a date on his return because he’s actually starting to heal pretty well.

“But it’s too soon to say whether it’s going to be two weeks, three weeks, four weeks. It’s hard to tell, but he’s definitely progressing.”

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/sun ... _1_3643827

http://www.safc.com/news/20110805/oshea ... 13_2410889

Tyrone Mears - another broken leg for Bolton

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14410555.stm

Andy Wilkinson sat out last night's game with a broken toe, while Rory Delap didn't even travel to Croatia.

Pulis added: "Rory has a slight hamstring strain, so we decided not to bring him.

"Wilko has trained for the last couple of days, but if he had got a knock on his toe he could have been out for four or five weeks. We didn't want to take that risk."

http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/St ... story.html

Man U update - http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Featu ... hield.aspx

Hernadez now out until end of August; Carrick won't be risked for Sunday and Rafael was expected to miss it anyway; Fletcher and Valencia back in training and expected to be available

Scans have revealed Seamus Coleman has suffered a torn ligament in his ankle

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/2 ... ament-tear

Man U's Bebe out for 6 months with a torn ACL

Tottenham's Steven Pienaar out for up to six weeks following groin surgery

Spurs v Everton off according to henry Winter on twitter

confirmed on BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14485169.stm

Van Persie, Vaermaelen Gibbs and Walcott delared fit. No specific return date for Wilshere as yet. Diaby not expected to return before the end of September.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... -gibbs-fit

5 Live just said RVP not in squad

SSN - from AVB - Torres fit and ready to play if selected on Sunday

BBC website says he's going to be captain
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14482418.stm

SSN - AVB - Luiz definitely out for at least one more week, nothing said about anybody else being injured or doubtful.

Kenny on Liverpool injuries/fitness

Suarez: "He's trained and has no problem. We'll wait and see how he is tomorrow.

We'll also see how Glen Johnson is in the morning.

"Obviously Steven (Gerrard) and Martin Skrtel aren't there and they are the only two. Everyone has come back from the international matches fine."