Summer recruits George Boateng (from Middlesbrough) and Anthony Gardner (Tottenham Hotspur), both initially ruled sidelined through injury, have made a comeback and could be in line to feature in the weekend’s Premier League fixture against Newcastle United.
Both were absent from Hull City’s five-nil beating dished out by Wigan Athletic, and it is arguable that the east Yorkshire side missed the top-tier experience that both Boateng and Gardner provide.
Boateng was ruled out with a thigh injury and Gardner too was having complications with a problematic thigh muscle.
Hull boss Phil Brown told the Daily Mail: “George has been with a physiotherapist department that the national team of Holland uses over in Amsterdam. He’s been over there and come back looking in good shape.”
“We’ll get a further scan tomorrow and hopefully get the results of that on Thursday with a view to Saturday. It’s touch and go, probably 50-50.”
Gardner is recovering from surgery on his thigh but Brown now believes his injury woes are behind him, he said: “It’s been an ongoing problem that he’s had for probably the last two years and there was a lot of clotting and old blood in his thigh.”
“He’s had the operation to remove all that and it must have taken three quarters of a pint of unwanted stuff out of his thigh muscle,” he concluded.
Hull City travel to Newcastle United on Saturday 13 September.
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