Dec 14:
'Unfortunately, he's been carrying a bit of a knee [injury]. Hopefully, nothing too serious, but it flared up in the week.'
Dec 20:
'Dwight is touch and go, he's got a niggly knee and we're being careful with it, but we'll have to wait and see.'
Dec 22:
'He's still settling his knee down, we don't think it's too drastic. We know we'll have to perform well against a good side in Chelsea. They're a good outfit, we've seen that. Look at their league position.'
Dec 23:
'Dwight is still touch-and-go. We hope it will settle down, probably not for this one, but sooner rather than later.'
Dec 27:
'We’ll have to wait and see. It’s still a touch-and-go scenario with these games coming thick and fast, so it’s a maybe at the moment as to whether Dwight makes it.'
Jan 02:
'A doubt for the weekend. It's settling but getting it to that final moment when he can join in again has been a bit trickier than we thought.'
Jan 07:
'Dwight won't make it this week. We're waiting on more news on that. It seems to be taking a long time to settle down.'
Jan 13:
'Dwight is not [available]. He’s got a little bit of an ongoing knee issue, as far as I know.'
Jan 17:
'Dwight isn't too far away; we're just waiting for more information.'
Jan 24:
'It looks like Dwight may need some surgery on his knee. We’ll have to get him back to the specialist to see. He may decide [on] something else... The general feeling [from the medical team] is that they don't think it's anything so bad - it's not like he's got a cruciate or anything - so hopefully he'll be OK.'
Jan 31:
'Dwight has had a minor surgery. I've just spoken to him as I've walked into the press conference. Hopefully, that has now sorted out his injury, which was a little bit difficult to diagnose.'
Grim honestly. Took a full month from "he's almost ready to start lads" to have the surgery anyway.
