Newcastle United manager Steve McClaren has revealed frontman Aleksandar Mitrovic has not travelled with the tea to their training camp in La Manga due to a knee ligament injury.
Mitrovic, 21, joined the Magpies from Anderlecht in a £13m deal, injured his knee in training and will now be sidelined for several weeks.
“He’s [Mitrovic] got a knee injury,” McClaren told nufcTV on Wednesday.
“We’re only bringing players here who can actually train over the next four days, and play in the game on Saturday.
“Mitro has a medial ligament injury, so it could be a couple of weeks – we’re hoping not too long.”
Of players to have scored at least five goals in the Premier League this season, no striker has done so at a worse conversion rate (9.8%), which forced McClaren to sign another striker in January.
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