Hull City captain Robert Koren will be unavailable for up to five weeks after fracturing his foot, the Premier League club announced on Thursday.
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The 32-year-old Slovenian midfielder underwent an X-ray at the start of the week, having carried the injury for several weeks.
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He will now miss this weekend's Premier League game at Newcastle United, as well as subsequent matches against West Ham United, Aston Villa and Everton.
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"We think Robert will be out for four or five weeks because he's fractured his right foot," Hull manager Steve Bruce told the club website, www.hullcityafc.net.
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"That is a bitter blow to us. He did it a couple of weeks ago and to be fair, he's played with it.
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"But last Saturday it was worse and so we scanned it and X-rayed it and those have revealed a hairline fracture to one of the bones in his foot."
Hull City is a football club I really feel would go far in this year's English Premier League. They have dope players!