Wolves manager Stale Solbakken won't deny midfielder Tongo Doumbia the chance of playing in the African Nations Cup.
Doumbia rediscovered some better form for Wolves at Middlesbrough on Saturday after recently returning to France to recharge his batteries, but Solbakken is expecting to be without him for an extended spell when the African Nations Cup gets underway next month.
"It's still up in the air at the moment," Solbakken told the club's official website. "There are many things involved and it's a big decision for everyone. We don't really want him to go, but we'll see what happens.
"If he wants to go and he's picked, it's no problem - we must be without him. It's as simple as that. There are international rules for this.
"In a way, I can influence it a little bit, but I'm not going to twist his arm. This is his country."
Solbakken revealed Doumbia's short-term future could influence his decision on whether to pursue his interest in former loan midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong.
Arsenal midfielder Frimpong had an injury-curtailed spell with Wolves last winter and although he is currently on loan at Charlton is due to return to the Emirates in January.
Solbakken added: "I think we've been right so far on this one. We've monitored his situation with Charlton and seen the games.
"He's better now than when he first went there. When he first went, he struggled a bit with his fitness. You could see that with the amount of minutes he played. Now he's playing a little bit more but not 90 minutes."
Striker Ellington, on loan from Ipswich, has been sidelined for two matches due to a calf strain, while midfielder Walker has also missed the last two games with ankle ligament damage.
"Nathan has done ever so well this week" Iron boss Brian Laws told the club's official website. "He's progressed well and we're hoping he'll be available for Carlisle this weekend.
"I'll be very disappointed if he's not fit and ready and, if he is, we'll have a bit more fire-power up front.
"Josh has come on really well, the physio is delighted with the progress that he's made and hopefully if he continues to work as hard as he is, he'll be back in the frame soon."
Meanwhile, David Mirfin is also hoping to give Laws a boost by returning from a knee ligament injury which has kept him out since early November.
Laws added: "Mirfin is very close in my opinion. I think he's still a few weeks away from being fully fit and back training with us and it's about getting it into his mindset that everything is fine and that we intend to get him back in the starting line-up sooner rather than later."
Scunthorpe will mark 100 years of professional football at the club when they take on the Cumbrians at Glanford Park on Saturday.
The pressure is mounting on manager Greg Abbott after the Cumbrians have slipped to within two points of the relegation zone on the back of just two wins in their last 12 league matches.
Their 2-1 weekend defeat at Shrewsbury was Abbott's side's sixth defeat in their last seven games in all competitions.
"I thought we were the better team right through the game," Noble told the club's official website. "They had three shots and scored from two of them, and that just seems to be our luck at the moment.
"When the ball was in their area they were making blocks and it fell to one of their players to clear it. We just need them to start falling for us and we'll be able to put them away."
The midfielder added: "We're all in this together and we know what we need to do. We just need one result and that'll be us hitting the ground running. We're a good side and we know we have nothing to worry about."
The Light Blues last night announced over ?22million - including more than ?5million from fans - had been raised from their listing on the Stock Exchange, and dealings on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) began on Wednesday morning.
A successful flotation is set to be good news for Gers boss McCoist, who said after Tuesday night's 3-0 win over Annan that he was hoping for some cash to spend on his squad.
A signings embargo means Rangers are unable to register free agents until September 1, and will have to wait until the following January to buy new players, but Green has promised a healthy transfer kitty when the restrictions are lifted.
Green said: "In the presentation we did when we were selling the shares, and also in the prospectus, we said that, of the ?22million, ?10million is put to one side for Ally.
"Of course, we can't buy players at the moment, we can't do that until January 2014.
"But, between now and then, we'll also have another season's worth of season ticket sales so the cash position will increase.
"We're not saying it's ?10million and only ?10million.
"If Rangers fans, as we expect, come out and buy their season tickets next year, there is perhaps another ?20million there and that is a fantastic position for the manager, the club and its fans to be in.
"When we are allowed to go into the market, this club will take the right players and take the right action."
He added: "This is definitely the springboard for the rebirth of Rangers.
"Never in Rangers' history did it sit there with no debt, no borrowings, with cash in the bank.
"The enterprise value of Rangers is still very, very low and that's why, I believe, institutions have invested in it.
"Having that list of institutions is a real endorsement that, not just people who are passionate about Rangers, but the hard-nosed, financial investment manager in London has looked at it and he's put his cash there.
"For me, that's another endorsement that what we're doing is the right thing."
McCoist had almost a three per cent stake in Rangers before the issue and said he planned to buy more shares, while former chairman Alastair Johnston and ex-player Kris Boyd are also reported to be among the investors.
According to Green, whose company bought the assets and business of Rangers for ?5.5million when the club was consigned to liquidation in June, an element of trust has been restored following a turbulent period.
Green said: "If you look at where we came from, some months ago, I was being described as a snake-oil salesman, to the position now, where current and previous managers and previous directors have put their hands in their pockets and bought shares.
"That's given me a tremendous amount of satisfaction.
"But, significantly, the fans have done it and, for fans, it's more of a leap of faith.
"People like Walter Smith and [fellow board member] Ian Hart have had the benefit of sitting down and understanding word for word what my vision is for the club over the next years and they've endorsed it and they've bought shares themselves.
"For the fans who have just taken me on trust, it's a bigger leap of faith and that won't be let down."
Green initially set aside ?10million for fans to buy a stake and believes they would have raised more than ?5million had it not been for the share issue taking place during the festive period.
He said: "I've got no doubt whatsoever that if we deferred or delayed into the new year, we would have raised more.
"However, the difficulties in doing that would be, we would be in a new accounting period, we wouldn't have been able to do it until well after March.
"If, by then, we had moved into a new league because we got promotion, then the club would have been valued at a higher price and the supporters would have had to have paid more for the shares. I don't think that's fair."
The allegation from Macclesfield followed the FA Cup second-round match between the two clubs at Holker Street which ended 1-1.
Macclesfield manager Steve King complained that Brown had been called "a monkey" by some Barrow fans as he made his way out for the second half.
Referee David Webb included his version of events in his report of the match, which will go to a December 29 replay to determine who will face npower Championship side Cardiff in the third round.
A spokesman for the FA said: "We are aware of the incident and it was referenced in the referee's report.
"We are now liaising with both clubs and the police."
Barrow chairman Brian Keen said the allegations of racism would be dealt with seriously by the Blue Square Bet Premier side.
"It's just unacceptable and it will be looked into," Keen told BBC Radio Cumbria.
"The results will be known to people once we find out who or what it was. We at Barrow won't have it and we will look into it really seriously."
Speaking after the match, King claimed that defender Brown was the subject of racial abuse by home fans.
King said: "He got called a monkey by some of the fans behind the goal. He said to the ref 'he's called me a monkey' and that's not acceptable.
"I heard it when I was coming out with Nat. It seems to be happening everywhere."
The alleged incident is the latest allegation of abuse in football following several other high-profile incidents.
Several England Under-21 players were targeted with racist chanting by Serbia fans during their Euro 2013 qualifier in October, while former England captain John Terry was banned for four matches by the FA, before being cleared of all criminal charges, following an exchange of words with QPR defender Anton Ferdinand.
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was given an eight-game ban and a ?40,000 fine after he was found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra last season.
