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3 days ago
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Plymouth Argyle summer signing Jack MacKenzie to miss start of season
Plymouth Argyle will be without left-back Jack MacKenzie for their League One season-opener against Barnsley at Home Park next Saturday due to a knee injury. The summer signing from 2024/25 Scottish FA Cup winners Aberdeen missed the final two warm-up matches, the 6-0 win away to Torquay United last Wednesday and the 2-0 defeat by Bristol City at Home Park today, after suffering from tendinitis. Brendan Galloway played at left-back for Argyle against Bristol City but he is a more recognised central defender, while Ayman Benarous took over that position as a substitute in the second half. READ MORE: New striker signing a Plymouth Argyle priority declares Tom Cleverley READ MORE: Plymouth Argyle struggle against Championship quality of Bristol City Argyle head coach Tom Cleverley said: "Not good news with Jack, unfortunately. He has got a tendinopathy that is sore, that will need a bit of time to settle down. "Not ideal with Jack coming to the club, he wants to show everyone what he can do. I can't put a specific timescale on that but it will be certainly weeks until that settles down. "It's a very common footballer injury and most of the time you can keep a lid on it, sometimes it just gets too aggressive and that's where it has got to for him and he just needs a period of time to settle that down." Cleverley continued: "He's a great lad and you know he will play through the pain barrier for you so it must be a little bit sore for him to flag it up. The tests have proved that and we need to be careful with him to make sure you are not in that vicious cycle of 'It feels a bit better this week, let's push' and then you are back to square one. "We will be careful with that one. He's a player we think a lot of and we look forward to having him back, but it certainly won't be for next week." One positive piece of news for Argyle was the return from a knee injury of defender Julio Pleguezuelo as a substitute against Bristol City after he was ruled out of the pre-season matches against Eintracht Braunschweig, Truro City and Torquay, as well as a full-scale inter-squad match at Home Park. Pleguezuelo replaced Kornel Szucs in the 67th minute against the Robins and Cleverley said: "That was always the plan, if we could get Pleggy to the last (pre-season) game and get some minutes into him. "Matty (Sorinola) came back from missing Wednesday (the win at Torquay), as did Caleb Watts, and those guys looked sharp and completed an hour, and will be available for selection for next week." You can read more of our Argyle stories from Plymouth Live by clicking HERE
BBC News
10-07-2025
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- BBC News
Argyle's Hazard 'touch and go' for start of season
Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Conor Hazard faces a race against time to be fit for the start of the season. The 27-year-old injured knee ligaments playing in Northern Ireland's 2-1 friendly loss to Denmark in Copenhagen last month. Hazard - who joined the Pilgrims from Celtic two years ago - missed four months of last season after undergoing ankle surgery in has been wearing a brace on his knee during Argyle's pre-season tour to Austria. With Dan Grimshaw's move to Norwich City, Hazard is the only goalkeeper on the Pilgrims' books to have played a first-team game. Former Fulham goalkeeper Luka Ashby-Hammond has been on trial with the the club in recent days. "It'll be touch and go for sure," head coach Tom Cleverley said."It's one of those things that in the latter stages of wearing a brace you have quite a lot of freedom within that."Conor is at the stage where he's ready to do a bit of training on the pitch in a very controlled situation."It's someone that we're all eager to get back as quick as possible whilst not taking too much risk."
