Blues skipper Sam Morsy has not been included in the Egypt squad for the Africa Cup of Nations which takes place during January.

The competition would have seen the 32-year-old miss up to six Town Championship matches.

Morsy had been included in the 55-man provisional squad, leading to fears that he could be named in the 27-strong final party for the tournament in Côte d'Ivoire.

Earlier in the week, Egypt's national team manager Mohamed Ghoraba refuted reports that Morsy had told the Egypt FA that he was making himself unavailable for the competition, again fuelling concerns that Town might be without their skipper for a vital month of the season.

However, those worries were misplaced with Morsy’s name absent when the squad was announced this lunchtime.

Morsy has won nine full Egypt caps, the most recent two in September. However, he was then left out of the squads for the October and November internationals.

Earlier this week, DR Congo confirmed that Blues defender Axel Tuanzebe wouldn't be in their squad for the same competition having also been named in their provisional party.

Town will, however, be without central defenders Cameron Burgess and Elkan Baggott during the same period as they will be at the AFC Asian Cup in Qatar with Australia and Indonesia respectively.

Egypt: Mohamed El Shennawy, Ahmed El Shennawy, Mohamed Abou Gabal, Mohamed Sobhy, Ahmed Hegazi, Mohamed Abdelmoneim, Ali Gabr, Osama Galal, Ahmed Samy, Mohamed Hany, Omar Kamal, Ahmed Fatouh, Mohamed Hamdy, Hamdi Fathi, Emam Ashour, Marwan Attia, Ahmed Sayed ‘Zizo’, Ahmed Nabil Kouka, Mahmoud Hamada, Mohamed Salah, Mostafa Fathi, Mahmoud Hassan ‘Trezeguet’, Omar Marmoush, Mostafa Mohamed, Kahraba, Ahmed Hassan ‘Kouka’.

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johnwarksshorts added 12:47 - Dec 30 That's a bit if good news.
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johnwarksshorts added 12:48 - Dec 30 That's a bit of good news.
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Pilgrimblue added 12:54 - Dec 30 Yes very good news. They must have better players! He’s so important, not just his quality but as a leader.
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jas0999 added 13:14 - Dec 30 Some rare good news!
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Nomore4 added 13:31 - Dec 30 Great news to start 2024
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wedgieblue added 14:01 - Dec 30 Thank funk for that…..!!! We’re going to need him to lead us through the next rocky month of January.
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Bazza8564 added 14:08 - Dec 30 Quite clearly he wanted to stay and fight, great lad this. We will strengthen around him this month but we need him, we all saw last night how much we miss his leadership
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shortmarine1969 added 15:56 - Dec 30 Unfortunately we will lose him for 2 games soon as very unlikely to get to yellow card cut off, before being booked again, and really don't want to rely on D.Ball in MF as he was dire, slow, lacked anything forward in terms of forward play, think KM called that wrong , and should have played Taylor, KM deemed fit to pay a hefty fee ( along with MA) for a player who seldom starts.!, but surely offers more than Ball. But glad we do t lose Sammy for AFCON he is teams heartbeat.

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cfmoses added 16:36 - Dec 30 Just think we really need another year to grow and consolidate in the Championship. Just look at Burnley. Played our style of football and did a Leicester last year. I guess most of us thought they would survive this year with a McKenna type of manager. There is so much to do in the transfer window and the current squad of 24-25 players is simply not good enough to be promoted and whoever we recruit will take time to embed into the McKenna Project. Let’s enjoy the play offs and the rest of the season. Realistically MCK needs another 2 Terms with us to get us to the promised land.

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cfmoses added 16:39 - Dec 30 One thing I’m pretty sure about is the ITfC squad in 2 years time will bear little resemblance to the current squad. The recruitment team will be vital and our CEOs negotiation skills will be tested to the full.
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Daniel72 added 19:00 - Dec 30 Sad for Sam... although maybe he is happier here in which case good news all round... Tuanzebe has looked good also whilst not enough flying time to judge as yet... so onwards and upwards.. we may miss Burgess but we ain't too bad in depth for a newly promoted side...
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Nomore4 added 19:04 - Dec 30 CFmoses. We’ve currently got more points than Burnley had at this stage last season.
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ronnyd added 20:16 - Dec 30 jas0999, don't you think that the first half of the season has been good news?
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Linkboy13 added 20:34 - Dec 30 When i heard he would be missing for the away game at Huddersfield i nearly didn't go because i knew how important he is to our team. Luckily Huddersfield were very poor but we still struggled to get a point. We need to sign another strong physical midfielder in case Morsy is out long term.
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Dissboyitfc added 07:44 - Dec 31 there loss is our gain, fantastic news!
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Eeyore added 09:38 - Dec 31 MA/KM will have a recruitment plan to make us a Prem team just as they did to make us a Championship team. Tougher job due to financial constraints. They definitely won’t be wanting another season in the Champ to build a team! If KM had thought Scarlett was any good he would have put him on for the last 20 of every match instead of Ladapo. Spurs will sell him to a div 1 team. There will definitely be some exciting signings. Two strikers, one midfielder, one centre half and possibly even a full back. Out will go: Walton, Jackson, Ladapo, Donacien, Williams, Ball(?), either on frees or nominal fees apart from Walton who aught to be worth a couple of million. The draw against QPR was a good result. A point against Stoke will also be satisfactory. Hope Buabo is fit to come on again and obviously Ladapo has to start in his last Town game.

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ronnyd added 15:03 - Dec 31 Eeyore, a Freddie hat trick would put the cat amongst the pigeons lol.
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