Bojinov's return delights Eriksson

Chris Bailey

April 09, 2008

Valeri Bojinov

VALERI Bojinov will play for City reserves on Thursday in the hope that it's a prelude to returning to the first team before the end of the season.

The £6m Bulgarian international has been out of action since badly damaging his knee ligaments in the opening minutes of last August's derby win over United.

Since then there have been a couple of false dawns in terms of his comeback, but now boss Sven-Goran Eriksson is convinced it is all systems go on the road to recovery.

"If you had asked me a week ago whether he would feature again this season I would have had some doubt but now not so much," reported the City chief.

"He did an excellent session on Tuesday morning, the best I've seen from him since he got injured. Tomorrow the reserves play Liverpool and hopefully he will play the last 20 or 30 minutes.

"He has shown a great improvement in a week and while he is far away from 100 per cent match fitness he is physically able to do everything we ask of him.

"It would be mentally very good for him to have one more taste of the Premier League before the season finishes."

Young central defender Nedum Onuoha, who has had an operation on his shoulder, will now be on the sidelines for 12 weeks. The 21-year-old suffered a dislocation in a collision with Michael Essien against Chelsea at the weekend.

"Nedum will hopefully be ready for when we start pre-season," confirmed Eriksson. "His run in the side had done him good and the injury is bad for him and us, but that is football."

How much have City missed Bojinov this season? Have your say.

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Twosips, Deansgate, work, sigh. (09/04/2008 at 09:00)

Ohhhhhhh Boji Boji! Boji Boji Boji Boji Bojinov!

Mark, (09/04/2008 at 09:03)

Brilliant but will Sven now play 442 to play boj.

Mark, (09/04/2008 at 09:44)

How exciting was theo walcott last night when he came for the gooners,now he,s the type of player we want at city and it might just sell a few more season tickets to keep frank happy!!

Invisible Man, Manchester (09/04/2008 at 09:46)

Thank the dear Lord. It will give Vega, Knott, Bluefield, Bates and company somebody else to moan about. I wouldn't dare turning up Valeri unless you score at least 3 a game.

Ste (09/04/2008 at 09:51)

lets hope he is good!

Its amazing how many people on here have him down as some sort of saviour on the back of a ten minute performance this season.

He could say us ten million in the transfer market though if he is as if not we will need two new forwards next season.

Billy Boy, Boston (09/04/2008 at 10:00)

marc (09/04/2008 at 10:05)

why dont you come on over vaaaaaaleri

Trumann's for Steel, At Home (09/04/2008 at 10:16)

Whilst this is great news, I hope they don't rush him into it just for the sake of having him there. It would be much more favourable for him to spend the summer getting fitter rather than risk him before the end of the season. There isn't much to play for now and as Sven says, there is no way to solve the goals-for problem before the summer. There are two or three fit strikers in the squad who should be guaranteed before this guy.

John-Thai sandwich brigade (09/04/2008 at 10:35)

Ok i want to run a little poll, who is the biggest muppet that comments on this site:

(A) tommybates (B) lee Bradbury (C) bluefield (D) ted knott (E) spiderman (F) edski vega

My vote goes for tommybates. Anyway once all the votes have been counted we will petition the MEN to blacklist them from the site, and hope that the remaining idiot is embarassed into shutting up. Cause i for one am sick of reading what they say.

Although i'm still convinced that they are all the same person, you couldn't have that many mindless fools commenting at the same time, could you?
Billy Boy, Boston.

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hey Billy,
personally I belive in free speech, hope that is not a concept too far advanced for you...

and why do you call fellow City fans " mindless" and "muppets".. ??

you should go live in China.
get yourself a nice uniform and scream abuse at anyone who disagrees with you.
you'll feel right at home.

Personally,I disagree with everything you say.
but I will defend your right to say it.

that's a very old idea..think about it.
it works both ways.

Trumann's for Steel, At Home (09/04/2008 at 10:36)

Very good Billy Boy, or maybe it's you? Can you not have a look at the bottom of each post to see who's written it before reading it? Would that not be more proportionate than banning people from speaking just because they may not put points across that you want to see?

The Blue Phantom, Happy Clapper OR just Realistic??? (09/04/2008 at 10:50)

Billy Boy, take Spidey off your list and put on Peter Jones.

jerseyblue, jersey (09/04/2008 at 10:50)

Nice one Billy Boy. Can I vote for them all?

Invisible Man, Manchester (09/04/2008 at 11:01)

Billy Boy. It seems Spiderman was an imposter so rule him out but as for the rest it's a tough choice. Bluefield is as twisted as the Spire his town is famous for... but for me Knott's smoozing of united on their site pips it at the moment. Things could change though I'm sure all concerned will make an effort to be the top man.

sibierski's double, manchester (09/04/2008 at 11:13)

Top of the poll list has to be Bluefield without a shadow of a doubt !!

Mark, (09/04/2008 at 11:14)

The Blue Phantom, Happy Clapper OR just Realistic???

Than you.

Mark, (09/04/2008 at 11:15)

Invisible Man, Manchester

Thank you.

whicko, bolton (09/04/2008 at 11:17)

Bin Mick the red fireman!

Blend, London (09/04/2008 at 11:19)

Tedd Knott by a mile out of that list. I'd also have to add Simon,Alty to that list, but his posts are more infrequent these days. He probably tops even Ted Knotted

Shaun, At My Desk (09/04/2008 at 11:20)

Great that he's made such a speedy recovery,and I look forward to seeing him next season.However,as things stand we are nowhere nearer to solving our goalscoring problems that stretch back to the sale of Anelka.Only Andrew Cole has managed to reach double figures since the Elk sulked off.This season has seen no less than 4 players fail to make an impact in the lone striker role.As others have quite rightly pointed out-the system is to blame more than the often stranded, outnumbered,lone striker.Or,
more to the point,at present we simply don't have the calibre of player able to support and supply a lone striker. Sven and his staff will be expected to start solving all the above problems come next season,and
if(as I expect)he is given the resources and crucially the time,we could all be in for a treat.

Bouncebackability (09/04/2008 at 11:27)

My Vote goes to

None other than

Lee Bradbury ! ! ! !

He talks lots of mocking Bird ! ! !

jerseyblue, jersey (09/04/2008 at 11:38)

Check out this posting on Yahoo by an Arsenal fan....Guess its not just City...

"I am an arsenal fan and I am not British but I never thought I would be saying this maybe its time for Arsene Wenger to go. I think he has something against English players or how else can you justify playing Ebuoe or Diaby ahead of Theo Walccott over these last months."

Guess no team can ever lose again!!

DJ, Chorlton (09/04/2008 at 11:39)

Billy Boy - my vote goes to Bluefield. There are several comments but he reached peak performance a few weeks ago when we hit our bad pathc of form: "we are no better off than we were last season". Priceless...

I am a bit more forgiving of old Ted Knott because at least he follows the youth team through thick and thin.

Mister Blue (09/04/2008 at 11:40)

I can't wait to see Bojinov in action for us. I'm not saying he'll be the answer to our goals shortage, but hopefully Sven will play him with another striker & be more positive in his approach to games.

I've seen him quite a few times on Football Italia when he was Fiorentina & he certainly looks a decent player . . . . I just hope his injury hasn't degraded his playing ability too much.

I'd still be surprised if we see him play a full game before the end of the season . . . . . maybe a few substitute appearances if we're lucky.

Good to see you back Valeri

BlueBlood (09/04/2008 at 11:47)

CANT WAIT!

lets not expect too much from him this season though...

LEE BRADBURY CITY RUINED MY LIFE (09/04/2008 at 11:48)

Billy Boy, Boston
9/04/2008 at 10:00.............how old are you ?,seriously how pathetic is your post ?,its all about opinions mate,most people enjoy reading all the posts regardless off whether they agree with the content or not,what do you want to read every day sven is god etc etc.............

makes me laugh there is two sides to the coin here accusing one user of having multiple user names,scroll through the sven is god comments and look at other users agreeing with the poster within minutes telling each other how great they are ?,my theory is a lot of these are rags ?,all about opinions though really don't you think ?.

anyway just for the record i think it is a great site,most opinions make complete sense whether i agree with them or not,hardly the ramblings of muppets ?

maybe you can use your umpteen user names to tell yourself how great you are ?.

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