Stoke City's Mamady Sidibe out for season
Stoke City have suffered a blow to their hopes of making progress in the English Premier League this season with the news that Mamady Sidibe will be out for the rest of the season due to injury.
The 30-year-old striker snapped his Achilles tendon within three minutes of coming on as a substitute for Rory Delap in the 85th minute of the club’s 2-1 English Premier League defeat at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.
The Mali international, who has been with Stoke since 2005, was out for about eight months in 2009 after he suffered damage to his cruciate ligament in a reserve game that March.
More players needed
Fellow forward and club record signing Kenwyne Jones is also on the sidelines with an injury. The club’s manager Tony Pulis said it was now imperative that he brings in more players before the transfer window slams shut at the end of the month. He told Stoke’s official website that: “The fact that we have lost Kenwyne and now Mama in our first two matches shows how lightweight we are in certain areas of the squad. So we will be looking to address that situation before the deadline and, as I have stated before, it is important that we bring more goals to the team.”
The manager added that he would not rush Jones back into action after he sustained an ankle injury in the opening EPL fixture against Wolverhampton Wanderers. The eight million pound striker will not be ready to play in the Carling Cup match against Shrewsbury Town tonight and it was not yet clear whether he would be ready to face Chelsea on Saturday.
Pulis said that: “We want to make absolutely sure he is right before he comes back and due to the international break he'd have a couple more weeks after Chelsea, if he is not ready for that match.”
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