Sunderland V Fulham - view criticism, group, and research of the game live. Cattermole facing up to absence Sunderland skipper Lee Cattermole is facing several weeks on the sidelines as he attempts to shake off a knee injury. The 24-year-old midfielder may skip the Barclays Premier League conflict with Fulham at the Stadium of Light after having a treatment in the knee, with manager Martin O'Neill admitting surgery could be required if that does not solve the situation. Full-back Danny Rose is expected to come back to teaching next week after aggravating a hamstring strain which includes been addressed at parent team Tottenham. O'Neill is eager to tie-up owner Simon Mignolet on a long-term agreement. The 24-year-old this week moved to assure O'Neill that he was pleased on Wearside after representative Guy Vandermissen suggested he may need to keep for a higher-profile club if he's to accomplish his goal of replacing Thibaut Courtois as Belgium's first-choice goalkeeper. O'Neill, who celebrates his 61st birthday today, revealed talks over an extension at the Stadium of Light are under way despite Mignolet having couple of years of his current deal still to operate, and the Northern Irishman is set to solve that situation as rapidly as possible. He said: "We would really like to try and tie him down to a longer contract. There were talks about that for quite a while, but I think we would really want to attempt to firm that up the moment we can. "I think he's open to it." Mignolet has probably been Sunderland's most readily useful person in an assessment Premier League plan to date, and the proven fact that he acted swiftly to stop the alarm bells could have come as an aid to O'Neill and the club's supporters alike, although the former was relaxed about the entire situation. He said: "I had not been made alert to it at all and he came out to me to share with me that he thought there is something lost in translation. "The agent who was employed in the office had made some comment about it and actually, if you think about what he said - I have not seen it first hand and for that reason, it's unfair of me to create a comment - but if the gist of it was that Atletico Madrid are a better part than Sunderland, well I am not therefore certain that too many people could disagree with that. "I haven't a major problem with this. Our work is always to attempt to make us sometime or them." another as good Fulham's Simon Davies has over come a leg injury and could perform his first game in very nearly per year. Other midfielders Kerim Frei and Kieran Richardson have recovered from their respective pelvis and calf injuries but Mahamadou Diarra (leg) is going. Young midfielder Buomesca Tue Na Banga and Ajax loanee Eyong Enoh will also be available after knee injuries. "Simon Davies is right back, he's fit," manager Martin Jol said. "I have to come to a decision (on whether he features). I have plenty of people today however it could be about having him in the squad." Davies is one of a number of Fulham people who are out of contract at the end of the period. Jol has challenged the 33-year-old to prove that he deserves a new offer. "We like participants to be really productive," the former Tottenham manager said. "He was wounded probably half the full time, perhaps more, but hopefully he can remain fit now. "I have a concept that he could still show himself again because that is what he did previously. "In yesteryear he was a large person for Fulham."
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