'Surgery' - Daniel Farke on Patrick Bamford absence and Leeds United plan for Aaronson and Wober — YEP 20/7/24
By Lee Sobot
Patrick Bamford, Brenden Aaronson and Max Wober were all
missing from Friday night’s friendly at Harrogate Town.
Leeds United boss Daniel Farke has provided updates on
Patrick Bamford, Brenden Aaronson and Max Wober after the trio all missed
Friday night’s friendly at Harrogate Town.
A knee injury kept Bamford out of the last few games of the
2023-24 season and Farke has revealed that the Whites no 9 had surgery on the
issue and only returned to team training this week.
Bamford, though, is set to fly out with the rest of the
squad for the team’s pre-season training camp in Germany this week along with
returning loanees Aaronson and Wober. The pair, who have had busy summers on
international duty, have only returned this week.
Speaking after the 3-0 win at the Exercise Stadium, Farke
was asked for updates on the trio and said: “We also need them in the next
weeks, there is no doubt about this. Patrick had obviously the little surgery
after his injury at the end of last season and was doing lots of individual
rehab work.
"He's part integrated back in team training just during
this week and this game just came too early. I'm not sure, perhaps there is a
chance, he will definitely travel with us to Germany and will hopefully also be
able to handle the main loads in the training sessions.
"We will see if we can involve him in one of the two
games perhaps. The gut feeling myself is perhaps that if is just ready for a
game then it's for the final friendly but we will see. It would be great to
have him perhaps for a few minutes at least in one of the two games.
“Brenden arrived yesterday after a long flight and he
arrived even three days earlier than he should have arrived so you could feel
he is desperate to be back and to be back on the pitch and to work but I wanted
him to have at least two/two and a half weeks of holiday after he was involved
in the tournament.
"He had an individual session already today, his first
session will be together with the team tomorrow for the first time, he will fly
with us to Germany and it's great also to have him back because he came back
already after testing in good shape and he is also highly motivated so good to
have him back.