Lee Johnson has given an update on Denver Hume after the full back signed a new contract this week, the Head Coach told press that “the contract he signed” was the one on offer to him in the summer.
“I think first and foremost we have to assess where he is physically, he’s on the back end of a triple hamstring injury and an operation so we have a duty of care, while the team is doing so well, to bed him in gently. There is a lot that has gone on and he has to get that confidence back in his hamstring and in his performance. Physically he’s a really good mover so that never really stands out as a problem in his sprint technique and defending movement. We have to build him up and it’s almost like a pre-season now that he’s got to have – under-23 games until he’s fully ready to go in the league, we have got games you can blood players like that, like the Papa John’s games, but we just have to do the right thing for the benefit of Denver and the benefit of the club. Whether that is a day training with the 23s or a first-team start, I guarantee it will be a long-term and medium-term decision-making process.”
