Carayol Fine But Skuse a Doubt for Brentford and Iorfa and Adeyemi Both Out for the Season Thursday, 5th Apr 2018 15:50 Mustapha Carayol is back in training but Cole Skuse is a doubt for Saturday’s game at Brentford, while manager Mick McCarthy has confirmed that both Dominic Iorfa and Tom Adeyemi will play no further part this season. Carayol and Skuse were both subbed during the 2-2 draw with Millwall on Monday but the Gambian international is expected to be OK for the trip to Griffin Park. “Muzzy’s trained today, he looks fine, he’s OK,” McCarthy said. “Skusey’s not, Skusey got a nasty bang to the head so we left out today and we’ll see how he is. I’ll see, that will be a decision for tomorrow. But he’s a doubt because taking a bang on the head. “I don’t think there are any others. No injuries, there’s little bumps and bruises but nothing that’s going to keep anybody out of the squad.” McCarthy says on-loan Wolves defender Dominic Iorfa will now not return from the groin strain he suffered in the Sheffield United match last month before the end of the campaign. “No, we won’t see him again,” he said. “What have we got left? I know we’ve got six games but it’s only four weeks, is it? No, he won’t be back. “I’m been pleased with him, he’s done everything I’ve ever asked him whether he’s been at full-back or at wing-back. “He’s shown some great tendencies to get forward and try and work it up front and use his pace, he’s done as well as I’d expect him to.” It’s little surprise that Tom Adeyemi is also now definitely out for the season, the summer signing having last appeared for the first team in October with a recurrent hamstring problem having hampered him throughout the campaign after he missed the opening weeks having been ill. “You’ll probably see him walking around the pitch after the Middlesbrough game,” McCarthy reflected ruefully. “He’s not going to play, he’s nowhere near training, he’s not training with the first team and that’s been sad because when he played I really liked him and I think he would have added to the squad. Please God for him and for the club he’s fit next season, and they’ll have a good player. “It’s a hamstring. He had it just before the Norwich game. He was fit to play but maybe it just took its toll in that and he did it again. When you re-injure something I think it’s worse than [it was initially]." Emyr Huws is also among those ruled out for the season and having overcome the knee problem which ended his campaign underwent further minor surgery earlier in the week. “He’s been on that road to recovery and, of course, it’s something else that needed looking at,” McCarthy continued. “Hopefully for him he’ll be all right for pre-season.” He says the summer signing from Cardiff has been a big miss, even if the Wales international cost rather less than was reported at the time: “He was £200,000, £250,000 so that was hardly earth-shattering, I don’t think you’ll find it was any more than that, that was exactly what it was. “We saw when he was here on loan how good a player he is. We saw him against Sheffield Wednesday when he played, the Newcastle game when he scored at the end of last season. “I’ve admired him since I saw him play for Birmingham against Watford when he was on loan there and I’ve tried to sign him on a number of occasions since.
“And having managed to sign him I was delighted, so I was bitterly disappointed to lose him because he’s a good footballer.” McCarthy says the 24-year-old could be a key member of the new manager’s side next season: “He would have been this season, I don’t see any reason why he wouldn’t have been. “If we’d have had Skusey, Tom Adeyemi, Dozzer, he was the star man against Birmingham in the first game of the season, he did very well while he was on, had we had Teddy Bishop fit we’d have had a pretty good midfield that’s for certain and great competition for places. “Yes, Emyr will be, fingers crossed for him, because he’s a great lad, I hope he gets himself fit.” One player who could return in the final weeks is striker David McGoldrick, who has been out with a groin problem. “It looks like he might be fit before the end of the season, Didz, I hope he is for him,” McCarthy confirmed. Midfielder Andre Dozzell is making progress after suffering a torn cruciate knee ligament on the opening day but McCarthy says the 18-year-old won’t play a part at any level before the summer. “No, not in my view,” he said “I think, why? Why would anybody even risk that when he doesn’t have to do it and he can have another four or five months before he’s going to have to come back and do a pre-season? “He was making noises to that end a while ago but, let me tell you, if I’m going to be the manager here next year I’d be saying, ‘No, you keep yourself right, you don’t come back until we’re back in pre-season and you get over and above what you’ve actually needed to rehabilitate so you come back stronger'. “And I have to say, he has been brilliant. He’s shown a great maturity in his rehab and how he’s looked after himself, everything. The physios have praised him highly, so that’s shown a degree of growing up and maturing which is good.” Also sidelined for the rest of the season are keeper Dean Gerken (hip), midfielder Teddy Bishop (hamstring) and striker Joe Garner (head, knee and shoulder).
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