WIGAN Athletic midfielder Emyr Huws is the latest withdrawal from the Wales squad for the Euro 2016 qualifier against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Friday night.

The 21-year-old picked up an ankle injury in training on Wednesday and becomes the 10th player that manager Chris Coleman has to do without.

"We lost him to an innocuous challenge in a small-sided game," Coleman said at his pre-match press conference in Cardiff.

"We're going to have to send him back to Wigan. He's gone off for a scan as he's got a bad swelling around his ankle.

"It's disappointing but we'll have to get on with it."

Coleman lost key midfielders Aaron Ramsey and Joe Allen before even naming the squad for this week's Cardiff City Stadium qualifiers against Bosnia and Cyprus and has suffered a raft of further withdrawals since the players met up on Monday - including ex-Newport County AFC star Lee Evans.

Meanwhile, Coleman insisted that the future of striker Ched Evans is not on his mind as he prepares for Wales' two Euro 2016 qualifiers.

The Wales striker was jailed for five years for rape in April 2012 but is due to be released this month.

More than 90,000 people have signed a petition calling on Evans' former club Sheffield United not to re-employ him, but Professional Footballers' Association chief Gordon Taylor told the BBC's Sport Wales programme that the 25-year-old should be allowed to play football again when he is released from prison.

"I didn't know there was a law that said once you come out of prison you still can't do anything," Taylor said.

"As a trade union we believe in the rule of law... besides that, he still wants to contribute to society.

"If he earns money he'll pay taxes. Those taxes will go to help people who maybe can't get a job."

Sheffield United signed Evans from Manchester City for £3million in 2009, but released him the month after his conviction for raping a 19-year-old woman at a hotel near Rhyl in north Wales.

The Yorkshire club have refused to comment on a possible return for Evans, who was capped 13 times for Wales before his conviction.

Coleman told a media conference on Thursday: "I've not thought about Ched Evans. That story has come from outside our camp.

"I'm my own man but with respect to Ched and everyone involved that's not on my mind."

Evans has always maintained his innocence and legal representatives for the striker are preparing a submission to the Criminal Cases Review Commission aimed at quashing his conviction.