Magpies don't know when Robert will be back

Newcastle United have admitted they do not know when Laurent Robert will be ready to play again, as treatment continued on his spinal fracture.

Newcastle United have admitted they do not know exactly when Frenchman Laurent Robert will be ready to play again as treatment continued on his spinal fracture.

The club revealed on Monday that the 27-year-old former Paris St Germain midfielder would be out of action for at least six weeks after medical experts discovered a stress fracture in one of his vertebrae after he complained of back pain.