Haji Wright performed a key position throughout Frank Lampard’s early time with Coventry Metropolis and the England supervisor is hoping to see his American ahead take one other main step ahead this season.
Wright is presently together with his Sky Blues teammates at preseason camp as he continues harm rehabilitation forward of the EFL Championship marketing campaign. The U.S. males’s nationwide workforce attacker suffered an Achilles harm in the course of the CONCACAF Gold Cup, which dominated him out of a lot of the event.
Though Wright’s worldwide alternative was hampered by the harm, Lampard doesn’t consider it to be extreme.
“Haji sustained an harm when he was away with the USA workforce, I feel we’re two-and a-bit weeks into what would you name his rehab from the second he acquired the harm, which is an Achilles harm,” Lampard mentioned in a membership interview.
“Hopefully it’s nothing main,” he added. “He has finished the whole lot proper and he has been off his toes for a number of weeks.”
Wright missed elements of the 2024-25 league season as a consequence of an ankle harm, however returned to play a number one position beneath Lampard’s tutelage final spring. The 27-year-old scored 5 targets in the course of the second half of the season, ending with 12 general as Coventry Metropolis reached the promotion playoffs.
The Sky Blues’ playoff run ultimately ended in opposition to eventual playoff winners Sunderland, ending a promising six months beneath Lampard. Having Wright again for a full season will probably be key for Coventry Metropolis’s promotion quest this yr and Lampard is keen to get the American again amongst the targets.
“He was actually eager to come back right here with us, which I used to be actually happy with and it’s the appropriate factor to have him across the group, we will do all of the work with him right here and Haji is a giant participant for us and I used to be very eager for him to be right here with us,” Lampard mentioned.
“He’s good with the work, he will get on it with it and even for me, that is my first full season with the gamers and I actually need to get to work with the gamers and Haji individually, as he works via his rehab, we need to get him match for the beginning of the season hopefully and I feel it may be a giant yr for him,” he added. “He has a lot expertise and I need to work with him intently and I need to see the very best of him.”
Coventry Metropolis opens its league schedule on August 9 in opposition to Hull Metropolis.