Sturridge
Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge to miss start of next season after hip surgery
• Sturridge may not feature again for Liverpool until October
• Liverpool view operation a success after striker’s injury-hit campaign
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Injury-cursed Sturridge has hip surgery
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Daniel Sturridge has made just seven Premier League starts this season and may not feature again for Liverpool until October. Photograph: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images
The Premier League season is not yet over but Liverpool have been informed
Daniel Sturridge will be sidelined for the start of the next one as he recovers from a hip operation.
The striker had
surgery in New York on Tuesday and Liverpool are confident it will remedy several underlying issues behind his poor fitness record. However, it will be four months before the 25-year-old can resume full training and with his pre-season effectively beginning in early September, it could be mid-to-late October before Sturridge is available for Brendan Rodgers’ team again.
The 2015-16 Premier League season starts on 8 August, and the medical advice
Liverpool have received from New York indicates they will be without the England international for the opening two months of the campaign.
Although the timeframe represents another setback for a striker who has made only seven Premier League starts this season because of thigh, calf and hip problems, Liverpool’s medical department view the operation as a major success.
Their information from Bryan T Kelly, the orthopaedic surgeon who performed the procedure, is that the hip operation identified and addressed an issue that could be linked to the various muscle problems Sturridge has suffered this term. Liverpool are therefore hopeful it will have long-term benefit for a goalscorer whose absences have had a damaging effect on the team.
The extent of Sturridge’s latest lay-off is unlikely to change the Liverpool manager’s transfer plans. Rodgers, who can soon add Memphis Depay to the long list of prime targets his club have missed out on,
with PSV Eindhoven having agreed a £25m fee for the winger with Manchester United, has stated
he wants to sign a proven goalscorer who can perform “at the top level every week”. Aston Villa’s Christian Benteke could emerge as a possible target at the end of the season.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/07/daniel-sturridge-liverpool-next-season-hip-surgery
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