Newcastle United can be with out Harvey Barnes for one more month.
The winger injured himself through the Magpies’ 8-0 Premier League demolition job over Sheffield United again in September and hasn’t performed a aggressive sport since.
The 26-year-old, who signed from Leicester Metropolis for £39 million in the summertime (Sky Sports activities), had began the marketing campaign in wonderful type, however his newest setback, which noticed him go down with out contact, is anticipated to maintain him out till no less than the top of January.
Detailing the membership’s expectations, supervisor Eddie Howe, who spoke to reporters following the workforce’s Carabao Cup penalty shootout defeat to Chelsea on Tuesday night time, admitted Barnes’ restoration is ‘an ongoing course of’.
“That’s an ongoing course of,” he stated, as quoted by the Shields Gazette.
“He’s hopeful to come back again inside 4 to 5 weeks. That’s the most recent plan.”
Barnes is only one of many Newcastle gamers at the moment dominated out by means of damage. This season has seen Howe battle towards the membership’s worst damage disaster in a long time, and though the northeast giants are doubtless to make use of the winter window so as to add some contemporary faces, Barnes’ continued absence will nonetheless function a significant loss to his supervisor.
Since signing for the Geordies, Barnes, who has four-a-half-years left on his deal, has scored one aim and registered one help from his first seven video games in all competitions.
