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Boss on striker boost
Fulham, 14:29, February 10, 2009 ,
Diomansy Kamara has returned to full training and Roy Hodgson says he has given Fulham a tremendous boost.
Kamara has been out with a knee injury since last summer but is now close to making a first-team appearance according to Hodgson, who has been impressed with his return.
"Kamara has really been a revelation in the few days of training," Hodgson told the Cottagers' official website.
"After training on his own or with the sports science people to recover from his knee injury - all of a sudden he's back in training and it's another player for us.
"I regard that as a tremendous bonus and it's in that area that I was anxious to find cover - I wanted another front player at the club and I was worried that Kamara wouldn't feature too much.
"But from what I've seen so far, that was an unnecessary fear because it look like he's going to be back in with us and we'll have a fourth front player."
Hodgson is even contemplating starting the former West Brom striker in a game because he believes his pace and enthusiasm are back already.
"The risk would be that after 20 minutes at that level he'd be blowing and finding life hard," he said.
"We've got to build up his match-fitness. In training he's fine, he flies around and comes off the pitch with a sweat like everyone else.
"But it's going to take him a little bit of time to get that match fitness and ideally we'd like to try and get him in a couple of reserve team matches first."