Hull have accepted three £10million bids for Snodgrass, who is not in tonight’s squad JOHN WALTON/PAHull City’s slim chances of pulling off an upset in tonight’s EFL Cup semi-final second leg against Manchester United receded even further last night after the club accepted three offers of around £10 million from Burnley, West Ham United and Middlesbrough for star player Robert Snodgrass. It is fair to say that Marco Silva would have liked a more straightforward build-up to the conclusion of the last- four encounter, which United lead 2-0 after the first leg. Already shorn of seven first-team players through injury, the Hull head coach watched in horror on Sunday evening when Ryan Mason suffered a fractured skull in the 2-0 defeat away to Chelsea on Sunday. Silva is sure that Mason, who remains in a London hospital, will make a…

Source: The Times January 26, 2017 00:05 UTC