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Ian Mitchelmore

The huge Andre Ayew boost Swansea City have just been handed in promotion race

Steve Cooper says Andre Ayew will not miss any Swansea City games following concerns he would have to quarantine if he featured for Ghana during the international break.

The 31-year-old had been expected to earn a call-up to the Black Stars' squad for their Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against South Africa - a country currently on the UK's quarantine list - and São Tomé and Príncipe on March 25 and March 28 respectively while they also play a friendly fixture against Uzbekistan in between those outings.

Rules state players would have to quarantine for a period of 10 days should they travel to a country where new strains of coronavirus have been discovered of late in a bid to limit the spread of Covid-19 on these shores.

But Cooper has stated Ayew will not be unavailable for any of Swansea's games after the international break.

"He won't be missing any Swansea games, that's for sure," he said.

"We've had that discussion. The plans are still getting firmed up.

"Everybody's in agreeance in what may or may not happen, especially Andre.

"That will come to light in the next day or two, but everything's in control, everything's calm."

Under FIFA rules, clubs are allowed to prevent their players from heading away on international duty in the event that they would be returning from countries where there is a quarantine period of at least five days on their return.

Ghana announced their squad for the two competitive matches on Thursday night. Ayew was not included, although it could be that he joins up with his country for the second qualifying match given that it will not be played in what is deemed to be a red zone.

The attacker - who captains his country - has scored 14 goals in 35 league outings for the Swans this season.

Swansea take on Birmingham City on Friday, April 2 in what will be their first Championship fixture after the upcoming break.

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