Blackburn Rovers manager Steve Kean has revealed that defender http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Christopher-Samba-c9212 will make his return for the English Premier League side when he is fully fit.
Samba missed the 3-2 win over Queens Park http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rovers-c40385. However, according to Kean the player was not fit which was the real reason he had been unable to feature for his side.
The 27-year-old had handed in a transfer request last month, claiming he wanted a fresh challenge after he felt he had been lied to by the management at Blackburn Rovers. The club however went on to reject his transfer request and the player remained at
Ewood Park.
Since then Samba has been in training with the reserve team and has not featured for the senior team, with Steve Kean claiming the central defender was not in the right frame of mind. Now the Scottish manager has revealed that Samba wishes to make a return
to the first team.
The Blackburn Rovers captain according to the manager was willing to put the past behind him and return to the first team. Kean revealed that Samba had returned to training and had done well to show that he was ready to make his return.
Kean said while speaking to reporters:
“We want to get http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chris-c9006 back on the pitch and make sure he's in the proper physical state.
His actions as far as coming in and training - he trained really well on Monday - he's been in, he's been around the place but what happened and what was said in the window he can put behind him.”
Unfortunately for Samba, he has picked up a hamstring injury because of which he was unable to feature against Queens Park Rangers and is also a doubt for the upcoming fixture against Manchester City next weekend. Kean admitted he was looking forward to
having Samba make his return.
The Rovers manager revealed:
“He has been getting treatment on his hamstring and back ever since, so unfortunately he's not available.
I'm sure once we can get this injury he's got cleared up he'll be back on the pitch with the reserves to get some minutes under his belt because we want to get him back as quickly as possible.”
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