Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın striker Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın will miss the start of the new season after picking up a thigh injury.
The Zimbabwe international pulled a muscle in training leaving City desperately short of attacking options with the 2008/09 campaign drawing ever closer.
The club's record signing Jo has joined up with the Brazil squad ahead of the Beijing Olympics while Bernado Corradi and Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın are expected to depart Eastlands this summer.
That means that Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın who has been utilised more as a winger in recent times and Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın who missed most of last season through injury are Mark Hughes' only senior strikers.
"Unfortunately he picked it up a couple of days ago he pulled a thigh muscle quite badly and the medical staff reckon he won't be available until into the new season" Hughes told the club's official website.
"They have to wait for the muscle to heal and then for the strength to come back and that will need a lot of work. It's a big disappointment for me but also for the lad himself because he was hoping to hit the ground running.
"Benjani ended last season quite well and it is a shame but these things happen. You will always pick up injuries in pre-season you hope that they will be slight ones that players can get over but unfortunately this is a little bit more than that.
"We were quite strong bodies-wise we had quite a number of forward-thinking players but it could be that as we progress over the next couple of weeks we will be shorter than we thought we were going to be. We will have to have a look at it we talk about how the balance of the squad needs to be right so we will make sure we will have enough strength there. It's a blow and it was not something we were anticipating."
Having accepted that he may be forced to bolster his strike force over the coming weeks Hughes has been linked with moves for West Ham's Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın Blackburn's Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın and Marseille's Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın.