Carlos eyes return vs Man City
By: Shaun Fuentes (TTFF).
Trinidad and Tobago midfielder Carlos Edwards returns to the training pitch today with Sunderland and is eying a return to first team action by next week.
Edwards hasn’t played a game since the first week of the Premier League season against Tottenham Hotspur after a recurring hamstring problem has left him on the sidelines for the long period.
But Edwards, admitting that he missing Trinidad, is anxiously looking ahead to his return to the Sunderland team.
“I start training again tomorrow and I’m really looking forward to that,” he told TTFF Media on Monday.
“I think hopefully if all goes well I could be back for the game against Manchester City on Monday or against Newcastle the week after,” Edwards added optimistically.
Meantime, Southampton striker Stern John, on a roll with four goals in as many matches,celebrates his 31st birthday today. John has been in good form for the club in recent times and has been praised by manager George Burley for his persistence.
Teammate Bradley Wright -Phillips has also had some good words to say about the former Sunderland striker.
“Right now I’m just trying to do my thing and hopefully help the club go up the table,” John told TTFF Media. “It’s good to see the other guys doing well like Kenwyne for example. I think as the season goes on we will see better performances and hopefully the results that the clubs and fans want. Southampton is club that has ambitions and I’m happy to be part of that and hopefully we can keep pushing on.”
Jones continues to shine for Sunderland and has rumour is that Liverpool could be looking at him with Peter Crouch being part of the deal worth 12 million pounds. And Portsmouth, according to British Press reports, are also eying the former W Connection player.
Sunderland teammate Nyron Nosworthy knows all too well what Jones is capable of.
“He would be a nightmare to play against – he jumps and he hangs for so long, and I think he can win a lot of games for us. We have to try to work together now to take the pressure off him and start scoring from different areas of the pitch.
"The manager and the players are not trying to put any sort of pressure on him to score goals – he does that himself.
"Because he's such a presence up front and so good in the air, it becomes almost irresistible not to drift it in there for him or put in a good ball and see what happens. At the moment, he's our main strength going forward,” the Jamaican international told the Sunderland Echo newspaper.
