Titi Camara should return to play half an hour for the reserves
against Charlton on Tuesday evening.
It has been a long haul back for Titi, one of the players bought by Harry Redknapp last season with the money raised from the sale of Rio Ferdinand.
Says Glenn Roeder:
"He has been out of the limelight for a number of months now, but he has been back on the training ground for about four weeks.
"His knee is in good shape and we are just finding it a little bit difficult to get him physically fit enough to go out and play.
"But I think we are nearly there now and I'm pretty confident he is going to be on the bench for the first time in a long while in our reserve game against Charlton.
"John McCarthy, the fitness coach, has found it difficult getting him physically fit; he certainly became very unfit in his time off and John has worked so hard to get him back into physical fitness.
"It has been much slower progress than we would have hoped for but I think we are nearly there now."
The rest is now up to the player himself, and Glenn adds:
"We hope he can find that motivation because he was an expensive purchase from Liverpool and we have not really seen what he can do yet as he has played so few games since he joined us."
Steve Lomas misses the match with a slight rib problem.
SQUAD: McMahon, Johnson, Soma, Ferrante, Uddin, Potts, Newton, McCann, Todorov, Riza, Britton.
Subs: Camara, Sealey G, Clark, Cascione, Laurie.
It has been a long haul back for Titi, one of the players bought by Harry Redknapp last season with the money raised from the sale of Rio Ferdinand.
Says Glenn Roeder:
"He has been out of the limelight for a number of months now, but he has been back on the training ground for about four weeks.
"His knee is in good shape and we are just finding it a little bit difficult to get him physically fit enough to go out and play.
"But I think we are nearly there now and I'm pretty confident he is going to be on the bench for the first time in a long while in our reserve game against Charlton.
"John McCarthy, the fitness coach, has found it difficult getting him physically fit; he certainly became very unfit in his time off and John has worked so hard to get him back into physical fitness.
"It has been much slower progress than we would have hoped for but I think we are nearly there now."
The rest is now up to the player himself, and Glenn adds:
"We hope he can find that motivation because he was an expensive purchase from Liverpool and we have not really seen what he can do yet as he has played so few games since he joined us."
Steve Lomas misses the match with a slight rib problem.
SQUAD: McMahon, Johnson, Soma, Ferrante, Uddin, Potts, Newton, McCann, Todorov, Riza, Britton.
Subs: Camara, Sealey G, Clark, Cascione, Laurie.
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