Injured midfielder Luciano Civelli has set himself a target of a return to playing football before Christmas. The Argentinian has been out of action since damaging knee ligaments in the home game with Burnley back in March.

The 22-year-old told the club site: "I am running every day and feel happy with the progress I am making.

“I am seeing the specialist soon and hopefully he will say that my knee is fine to start doing exercises with the ball and increase my running to a quicker pace.

"I feel I am improving all the time. In two months I hope to be training with my team-mates. That is the target for me. After that, I want to be back playing football again before Christmas."

Civelli says he immediately knew his problem was serious: "I knew it was a bad injury when I went down. I have never had a feeling in my knee like that before.

"The first month or so was hard, but I have always remained positive and now I can look forward to playing again as quickly as possible."

Civelli made eight appearances for the Blues last season after signing from Banfield in his home country for a fee of around £1.1 million.

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aejb added 23:36 - Sep 7 Gio and his gf are hitting the headlines because she wants to move back to Mexico. However he wants to stay in England which she would agree with... But only if he were to stay in London. He dosnt plan to...
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aejb added 23:40 - Sep 7 He is a big Star in Mexico about the same as rooney was 5 years ago. I work in America as a trainee sports agent and i think dos santos holds the club close to his heart in the short space of time he was with us but he wont come back
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Greektractor added 01:20 - Sep 8 lets nab him next season when we get promoted :-D
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Back_The_Boss added 07:57 - Sep 8 We are definatley missing him, he will be a key player for us when he returns.
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andipeters added 10:55 - Sep 8 he's the new tarrico and he looks Sloth from the goonies. Thats a double win in my book. "Heeeeey yoooooou bluueeees"
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hollywoodginge added 15:32 - Sep 8 danknott spends his time down the park watching 15 year olds
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CustardCream added 20:10 - Sep 8 Looking forward to Civelli's return. I think he will more than do a job at LB if needs be.
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