Town record signing Kongolo closing in on transfer out of club
players, can help the team to make us stronger as a squad.
“At the beginning of the season we had the idea to have Danny Ward and Fraizer Campbell as our strikers.
“Now from the last week Fraizer Campbell has come back to the group and started training. He’s completed one consecutive week training with the group and that’s positive.
“We have lost Danny Ward now and we have different alternatives of players who can adapt to this position.
“We will see what the best option is for the club, if one player can play as a striker as a second position - we will analyse every player we have first who can be adapted to this position and cover this gap.”
Town will also continue to be without midfielder Lewis O’Brien, who is working his way back from a quad injury.
Corberan said: “We are following the process of his injury. We knew it would take time to recover in the perfect situation. We don’t have him ready yet. We need to continue working with his injury.
“It was not a short injury but I think we are now in the final part of the treatment.
“This week the positive thing was that we recovered players like Fraizer Campbell and Matty Daly who have had their first week with the group after some injury process.
“This week we’ve worked with all these players and haven’t lost anyone for any injury reason.
“Having the option to work with them in consecutive days is something positive for the squad.”
HUDDERSFIELD Town record signing Terence Kongolo could be on the verge of leaving the club.
Reports have suggested Fulham are looking to re-sign the defender on a permanent deal, with Football Insider indicating ‘a Fulham source has told Football Insider that the club are negotiating the permanent signing of the Holland international.’
Kongolo (pictured) was dropped from first-team action by thenmanager Danny Cowley not long after returning from an injury lay-off in November last year, with the centreback removed from duty alongside Adama Diakhaby and Isaac Mbenza.
He was subsequently sent out on loan to Fulham in January but suffered a broken foot just minutes into his second outing for the Cottagers and is still recuperating after having two surgeries to repair the damage – one to put in a bit of metalwork and another to remove it.
When asked about the possibility of a move for the centre-back, Town head coach Carlos Corberan said: “From when I arrived here with the club he wasn’t working with us [the first-team squad]. He continues following his rehabilitation process.
“But I think he is going to be one of the players that has options to not stay with us in the next year.”
That would appear to confirm Kongolo is set to leave the club soon with Corberan having given similar answers in the past in relation to Karlan Grant – who is linked with West Brom and has been removed from matchday squad contention as a result – and Steve Mounie, who has already sealed a move to French club Brest.
A permanent move to Fulham looked to be a possibility for Kongolo even when the 26-year-old first went out on loan, but his injury put paid to that at the time.
And the Cottagers boss said yesterday: “He’s a Huddersfield player, not our player. We’re in the market to try and bring some players in to improve us.
“We’ve done some business but at the same time I think we all realise where we need to improve and where we need to strengthen from the last time in the Premier League. We’re going to try and do that if we can.”
Kongolo is not believed to be too far away from returning to action but if his future at Town was already in doubt, then it is doubly so following the arrival of fellow left-footed centreback Naby Sarr on a free transfer last week.
Corberan has explained that he likes to have defenders playing on their natural sides at centre-back, so putting Sarr alongside captain Christopher Schindler would appear to be the most natural approach.