Tony Mowbray has admitted that Elliot Embleton's recovery will take a few more weeks than expected, after undergoing a second operation.
PLANNED TO GO TO USA
"Embo is getting there. We were going to take him to the US but we decided he probably wouldn't have played any games."
SMALL SETBACK
"He's had a slight setback, only a week or two, though, I think. He was feeling a bit of pain in the plate that had been inserted into his foot, and because he was feeling pain the surgeon decided to remove the plate because the fracture had healed."
TIMESCALE
"Now it is going to take a few weeks, maybe a month, for the scar of the removal of the plate to heal, but the fracture is OK so as soon as the operation side is sorted, he will be back playing. There's just a timescale [for recovery] when you take a plate out of your foot."
MATTER OF WEEKS
"The important thing is that the damage from the original break has healed. It will just be a matter of weeks, really, before Embo is back."
