The Manchester United striker will miss Monday’s FA Cup quarter-final at Chelsea and Premier League games against Middlesbrough and West Brom
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The Championship outfit have moved quickly to replace Owen Coyle, who was sacked on Tuesday after guiding the club to just one win in their last 13 league games
The 34-year-old Nigerian, who also had Premier League spells with Portsmouth, Middlesbrough and Blackburn, had been training with Coventry after leaving Turkish club, Kayserispor
The 34-year-old has been without a club since leaving Turkish side, Kayserispor, last year, having failed to score a single goal during an unsuccessful spell with the team
Mauricio Pochettino will see two of Spurs’ title rivals, Arsenal and Chelsea, face each other at Stamford Bridge, also on Saturday, and senses there is an opportunity for the taking as one of the teams are bound to drop points
The 31-year-old has made over 170 appearances since arriving in England in 2010, playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace as well as the Hornets
Hammers manager, Slaven Bilic, revealed that the 28-year-old had been due to face an operation for a knee injury later this month, but agreed to play on anyway as he awaited surgery
The ex-Tottenham Hotspur midfielder has been battling against addiction for the large majority of his adult life
Musa made several attacking forays into the homers defence after replacing Riyad Mahrez in the 71st minute of the tie
Next up for Man United is a trip to West Ham United on January 2, while Middlesbrough will welcome Leicester City on the same afternoon
However, after an uneventful opening 20 minutes, which saw Ilkay Gundogan volley wide with the only chance of the early stages, City began to find their feet and exploit the spaces that were beginning to open up
After Pep Guardiola endured his worst winless run of his managerial career, his City side came bursting back into form with a 4-0 victory against West Brom last Saturday, before stunning Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday with a 3-1 win
Arsene Wenger’s side have moved to the top of the league table, but their advantage over Manchester City, who play on Sunday, is just one point
Namely a run of three successive defeats for the first time in the tenure of Aitor Karanka, who took over on Teesside in November, 2013. Karanka is rather more preoccupied with yielding a renaissance in Boro’s fortunes following setbacks against Spurs, Everton and Crystal Palace and says that his side should read little into the Hammers’ travails
Newly-promoted Middlesbrough are yet to lose on their return to the top flight but last Wednesday’s defeat to Fulham in the EFL Cup would have given Aitor Karanka reason to be concerned ahead of their third away fixture in a week
Aitor Karanka’s side – one of the founding members of the Premier League – will play in the top flight for the first time since 2009 following the result, which sees them finish second in the Championship table above the Seagulls on goal difference
Both sides struggled to create chances in the first half and United’s first attempt came after 30 minutes when Jesse Lingard saw a powerful effort blocked by Daniel Ayala, before James Wilson fired a tame effort towards Boro keeper, Tomas Meijas
Middlesbrough take on Atletico Clube de Portugal in the final game of their training camp in Marbella on MOnday morning, with the squad due to return to England later in the day
Strapping Chelsea centre-back Ormeruo has been on loan at Boro since January and has flourished on Teesside
The short term deal to the Riverside Stadium is the second time the Nigerian has been away from Stamford Bridge with the 2012/13 season spent at ADO Den Haag in the Eredivisie without having made an appearance for his parent club