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West Brom could hand January loan signing Ali Gabr his debut against Southampton.

The Egypt defender, 29, has secured a work permit in time, but forward Daniel Sturridge is still out with a hamstring problem.

But I think we're all more interested whether Gareth Barry, Jonny Evans, Jake Livermore or Boaz Myhill will play...

Saints striker Manolo Gabbiadini could feature with Shane Long facing a late fitness test.

Midfielder Mario Lemina has recovered from dizzy spells and is fit.

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Brighton will give a debut to forward Jurgen Locadia in Saturday's FA Cup fifth-round game with Coventry after he recovered from a hamstring problem.

Jiri Skalak and Steve Sidwell (both ankle) are Albion's only absentees.

Coventry are likely to be without Michael Doyle (knee) and Jack Grimmer (hamstring), with eight academy graduates set to be in their squad.

Jordan Maguire-Drew, on loan from Brighton, is ineligible and Kyel Reid is cup-tied for the League Two side.

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Swansea manager Carlos Carvalhal will be without cup-tied duo Andre Ayew and Andy King when he returns to Sheffield Wednesday for Saturday's FA Cup fifth-round tie.

Carvalhal will rotate his squad as he targets Premier League survival.

Wednesday manager Jos Luhukay says that Cameron Dawson will replace Joe Wildsmith as goalkeeper for the visit of Swansea.

Defender Jordan Thorniley and midfielders Sean Clare and Jack Stobbs are all cup-tied .

No Fantasy Football teams for us to worry about this weekend - and I, for one, am glad. My team are performing so badly that my position is becoming untenable. The fans want me out.

Anyway... we'd usually have a quick look at the early team news on a Saturday morning to help shape our selections. Today we'll do it because you might fancy a flutter, or maybe because we're just anoraks.

Let's start at Hilsborough...

A bit of breaking Swansea news... the club has announced it has taken full control of the Liberty Stadium.

Previous co-owners Ospreys - the Pro14 rugby union region - will continue to play at the 21,000-capacity stadium as part of the new deal.

The FA Cup reaches the fifth round this weekend and you can follow all the action from every match on BBC Sport.

Sunday's match on BBC One sees Tottenham visit League One side Rochdale (kick-off 16:00 GMT).

And on Monday, again on BBC One, you can watch a repeat of the 2013 FA Cup final as runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City head to Wigan(19:55).

In addition, BBC Radio 5 live and sports extra will provide commentary on every match.

Football Focus will be live from West Brom previewing the fifth-round matches today at 12:00 on BBC One, with FA Cup Final Score to follow from 16:30.

You can watch every goal on the BBC Sport website and app, with live in-play highlights from all fixtures not kicking off at 15:00. Match of the Day will show extended highlights tonight (BBC One, 22:30).

In addition, the BBC Sport website will provide live text commentaries covering every fifth-round game, as well as all the key team news, reports and reaction.

Taxi talk is not all the papers are focusing on, there is also plenty of transfer chat. Arsenal are apparently eyeing up Germany's latest hotshot, while Liverpool might try to nab a Tottenham midfielder.

Find out who they are writing about in today's gossip column.

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The Times

The Times leave the taxi puns to the tabloids in their take on the Albion angst...

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Daily Mirror

The West Brom taxi story is a gift that keeps on giving...

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The Sun

Would you be surprised to learn that the back pages are dominated by West Brom, Barcelona and a taxi? Thought not.

The Sun reckons the episode could end in Pards losing his job....

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First up today is the Carlos Carvalhal Derby at Hillsborough.Team news is expected in roughly an hour and 11 minutes.

So before we focus on that tie, let's have a quick look around the back pages...

Talking of quartets, that's exactly what we have coming up in the FA Cup today. Let's hope they behave a little better than the Albion four.

Here's what's coming up...

• Sheff Wed v Swansea (12:30 GMT)
• Brighton v Coventry (15:00)
• West Brom v Southampton (15:00)
• Huddersfield v Man Utd (17:30)

The Baggies Bad Boys - Gareth Barry, Jonny Evans, Jake Livermore and Boaz Myhill - have apologised - after a taxi was stolen from outside a fast-food restaurant in Barcelona on Thursday.

The quartet were interviewed but not arrested by police after the incident, which happened in the early hours of the morning and is being investigated by the Premier League club.

Today Albion host Southampton in one of four fifth-round FA Cup matches.... will we see any of those four playing today?

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Oh dear... Pards must be LIVID.

The last thing you need when you're cut adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, have just sacked your chairman and chief executive, and are basically in a right royal mess, is four of your senior players getting into bother on what was a trip intended to save your season.

Maybe it will act as a catalyst. Hmmm.

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"Chairman, I've got an idea. Can we take the lads to Barcelona? We can do some warm weather training, we can build team spirit. A bonding session. It'll help us dig ourselves out of this terrible mess we're in."

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"OK Alan, sounds good. Just promise me one thing: you'll keep the lads in check. The last thing we need is any negative publicity. No drinking, no late nights, no daft antics."

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"Don't worry. The lads are sensible - especially the older ones...."