Nottingham Forest see loan signings Jermaine Jenas and Alan Hutton depart
JERMAINE Jenas has had his loan spell at Nottingham Forest ended so that he can seek treatment on his long standing Achilles injury.
While defender Alan Hutton has also returned to Aston Villa, after his deal at the City Ground expired.
Midfielder Jenas is expected to fly out to the States in an effort to resolve a fresh flare up of a problem related to the injury that kept him sidelined for almost an entire season after he had joined Alex McLeish at Aston Villa on loan.
Jenas, 29, started only one game for Forest, while making five sub appearances, after initially joining the club on loan at the end of September.
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"When we had him at Villa he ruptured his Achilles and we did not get more than 60 minutes out of him in the whole season," said McLeish, who was appointed as Forest manager last week. "That is an ongoing problem still and he wants to go to America to rehab out there.
"I don't think he is going to be available for a couple of months.
"He is a terrific player, his quality is there and if he can get back to full fitness, he would be an asset."
At the same time defender Hutton, who played under McLeish at Villa Park and also when he was Scotland manager, has also returned to his parent club.
"Alan has gone back to Villa, we decided that we wanted to focus on other positions and enhance the quality overall," said McLeish.
"We wanted to get the mentality to be more steely, because we have been a soft touch with one or two goals and we need to be much tougher, in one or two situations."
Comments
by StuartNG6
Friday, January 04 2013, 3:13PM
“Looks like McUseless learnt his lessons about Hutton. He bought him to Villa, played him every week despite him being the worst fullback ever seen at Villa Park!!”
by flipflopper
Friday, January 04 2013, 7:12AM
“I thought I read that Mcleish claimed that he wanted Hutton to play in the last game, but he didn't. Perhaps there is bad history between them and he wanted to go back. Maybe it was the arrival of Grant that was the reason for his return. Hutton seemed to be a decent player, so there is something that we are not being told. Does that mean that from the openness of Sean we are returning to the more secretive ways of most managers? It may not be a bad thing because it was possibly Sean's honesty that cost him his job. Forest do not want to lose another manager so quickly, unless he is inept. Stability in that department is a necessity if we are going to ever return to the top division.
McLeish has perhaps one more game, this cup game against Oldham, before he has to show the fans how positive he can be. The very popular Sean O'Driscoll was sacked and replaced with this man, because he could not get the players to perform for more than half a game. The fans expect McLeish to show more positivity and be more successful than Sean, but more importantly, so does Fawaz. Alex's team must be more positive and stamp their authority on the game. They must let the opposition worry about Forest, not the other way round.”
by tfaulkner
Thursday, January 03 2013, 9:37PM
“Without Hutton the left back position is still a problem. Halford is a centre half. Hutchinson has not played for a long while and Cohen is a stop-gap at best. Dont understand it unless got somebody else lined up.”