Clear he won't be ready for City or Brighton but we really need to be working towards him or Davies being ready for mid - late March when hopefully we are in the quarter finals of the CL and pushing for either the league.
That gives us 7 games after the City game to one or both of them up to speed.
I would imagine our ideal midfield for a CL quarter final would be Hendo, Gini and Thiago with Fabinho in defence so we need to work out how we can quickly get one or both up to speed for that period.