Town boss Paul Hurst has revealed that striker Ellis Harrison will be out of action for at least two months having ruptured a ligament in his ankle. The Blues manager says he will look at whether to bring in a free agent having lost another striker, loanee Jon Walters, to injury earlier in the week.
"He’s not very good at all,” Hurst said when asked about summer signing Harrison, who suffered the knock in training.
"I think he’s ruptured a ligament in his ankle so we expect him to be out for a minimum of a couple of months, perhaps longer.
"It’s a frustration we’ve lost him, Emyr Huws, I said he felt his knee so he didn’t train Friday and wasn’t available. He hasn’t played but we were hoping he’d made a step forward again.
"And Myles Kenlock was another one we lost on Thursday to an ankle knock. That shouldn’t be anything like Ellis’s, he might be back training on Monday, I’m not sure.”
Free agents are Hurst’s only source of new recruits until January and he admits he may look at bringing someone in via that route.
"I think with Ellis we need to have a look at it,” he admitted, having previously said it was unlikely in the wake of Walters’s injury. "If there is something out there that we feel can help us, we’ll look at it.
"It doesn’t change my feelings overall, but if we are going to be without him having lost Jon - and I don’t want to lose any players - but you lose him, who gives you a physical presence at the top end of the pitch, then we lose Ellis who will compete, win headers etc, maybe we’re a little bit light in options.
"Kayden Jackson showed some of his attributes again today and Freddie Sears, they’re the two obvious ones but after that we haven’t really got too many options.”