Leaburn to miss season
Well, or at best he’ll be back for the play-off’s. Okay, I’ll put the wine 🍷 down.
The news that the club cancelled Daniel Kanu’s loan at Southend this morning was only the prelude to the news that Miles Leaburn had surgery on his hamstring this morning and will be out for five months.
Devastating news for the youngster, who has had his struggles with injuries and means it leaves us just Slobodan Tedic, who is yet to make an impression, as foil for Alfie May.
Kanu scored four goals in one game for Southend but didn’t score in his other five appearances. Recently capped by Sierra Leone, the 19-year old came on as a 78th minute sub today.
With the possibility of Tedic being one of the players sold or sent back in January, told rather carelessly by Andy Scott in an interview released on the website this morning, we have to be in the market for at least two strikers in January.
The transfer wish list is already unfeasibly long in a notoriously tough market to work in, and without knowing how ambitious the new owners want to be.
The injury to Miles will probably prevent him being sold in January. (I’m pretty sure he has been tapped up, judging by his recent performances) Though whether he’ll be fit and back next season is less certain, given our record with injuries.