And with Chivas also having lost influential rookie midfielder Thomas McNamara to injury last week, it could be a difficult home stand for them against the side with the second-best road record in the league over the past five years.
Although Well have lost influential players such as Tom Hateley, Nicky Law, Henrik Ojamaa and, of course, last season's goal threat and Scottish Premier League Player of the Year, Michael Higdon, I think Stuart McCall has continued with his recent great record of making vital signings while sticking to a limited budget.
Sam Allardyce at 33-1 may be a long shot but Bolton are an ageing team and Allardyce has lost his influential assistant Phil Brown to Derby.
But the council's choices will still be scrutinized because the incumbent candidate, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a religious conservative widely blamed for Iran's increased economic isolation, has lost many influential allies.
Although Moyes – who has lost his influential midfielder Jan Kirchhoff for at least three months after the German underwent cartilage surgery on a knee – has no compunction about deploying Defoe as a solitary spearhead, he feels Victor Anichebe's arrival as his new, highly effective and apparently reborn, attacking partner is bringing the best out in him.
As for the accusation at hand, he reckoned that "a lot of people who are claiming that there has been this tremendous sort of spying and monitoring and hacking will be proved wrong .Even if he is proved right, by crossing Mrs Feinstein the CIA has lost its most influential ally in Congress.
Arguably the most influential opera of the last few decades, it has lost none of its power and remains Adams' finest stage work.
Since the Socialists & Communists have lost their influential major-party seats, it is feared, they will make opposition to de Gaulle outside Parliament, in strikes.
Tom Huddlestone finally had his hair cut for charity on Thursday, but Hull supporters will hope he won't also have lost his influential form ahead of what is perhaps a potential banana skin for the Premier League side.
The Hammers might also have lost the influential Alex Song but after an on-off saga of whether he would play for Cameroon, the 27-year-old announced his retirement from international football.
