Jefferson Lerma Injuries

'Jefferson has a problem with his toe. After the day off, he came back, and his toe hurts. He couldn't step into the boot, so he can't play. We don't know at the moment where it came from, but he had too much pain.' 'He had pain in his big toe. Like tendonitis, which lasted a day, a day and a half. He only missed one training session [at Palace], and they confirmed that there was no reason to retain him; he travelled to Barranquilla, so he is available.'

'We have one player injured from the Liverpool game, and that is Jefferson. We will miss him at least until MUFC.' 'Jefferson took part in the last two sessions, so it is too early for him, but he will be back for Aston Villa.' 'Jefferson is fit and will come back to the squad. It's good, but he was out for four weeks now, and this was the first week of training, so he has to get back into the rhythm, but it's good to have him back.'

'Lerma has made much quicker progress than expected.'

'Lerma is injured too. He's had a scan this morning, so I can't give any details, but it has to do with his hamstring. I don't know how serious that is either.' 'At the moment, they're suggesting [he] won't be [training] until the second week of the break. The question is whether we're going to get him at the start, so we get the chance to do some work, or are they going to spring it on me on Thursday.'

'Jeff may have to wear something just to help protect his nose from the incident last weekend, but yeah, it won't affect his availability.'

'Jeff is touch and go. He's not done as much as you would have liked, but he's further along than the others, so we will make a call on him tomorrow.'

'Jeff was ill very close to kick-off, so it was a bit late to change him from the starting XI. We knew we might have to change him. At half time, he was struggling.'

'We were giving Jeff a rest. He's had a knee issue recently, so, yeah, Jeff's knee needed looking after this weekend.'

'We've had a tough week, we lost 8-10 players through a virus, so we were a bit short. Some of them have missed long spells, up to ten days.' 'Jefferson should be okay, we hope. His knee has been a little bit sore, but we’re hopeful he’ll be back in and around it in the next day or so.'

"Jefferson is similar, he had a slight back injury but has come through a few days training."

"Lerma had been playing through a groin complaint. We needed to manage them rather than running the risk of losing them long term."

"He seemed okay, he took a blow to his knee."

"He picked up a hip injury away on international duty. We hope it’s nothing too serious and he will be back next week."

"He's had a niggling ankle injury for a few weeks so has been on and off with his training this week. We will wait and see whether he's fit."

"We've done the relevant scans and we don't think it's anything too serious but he's got pain in his ankle so that was the concern for us."

"His performance and endurance levels are getting better with each training session. He’s getting closer. We’ll have to wait and see."