{"id":468598,"date":"2025-10-02T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/468598\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:07:11","slug":"leeds-winger-dan-james-out-for-up-to-six-weeks-with-ankle-injury-daniel-farke-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/468598\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds winger Dan James out for up to six weeks with ankle injury, Daniel Farke confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leeds United may be without Dan James until the November international break after the winger rolled his ankle in training, manager Daniel Farke has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>James, who was named the club\u2019s Player of the Year in May, had only just recovered from a core injury to be an unused substitute in Saturday\u2019s Bournemouth draw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6675904\/2025\/09\/30\/dan-james-injury-update-leeds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">before sustaining the injury.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fresh issue will keep him out until at least the trip to Brighton &amp; Hove Albion on November 1, but, most likely, until Aston Villa\u2019s visit on November 23. Wilfried Gnonto will also miss a third consecutive game with a calf complaint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to confirm Daniel James will be out for a few weeks,\u201d said Farke. \u201cHe has, sadly, rolled his ankle in training. The doctors say he\u2019s likely to be out from four to six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means, realistically, we would just expect him back after the November international break. If he was available even before for one or two games would be a nice little bonus and a surprise, but he\u2019s definitely out for a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilly Gnonto will also miss this game. His calf problems are not sorted. He\u2019s not back in team training, so there\u2019s no chance to involve him for the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will also, sadly, just be back after this upcoming international break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen-year-old Harry Gray is also rated as a doubt by Farke. The forward is yet to feature this season, but trains with the first team and developed an issue with a hip flexor while playing for the under-21s against Norwich City on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a few question marks behind Harry Gray because he reported, after he played the (under-21) game on Monday, some problems with his hip flexor,\u201d said Farke. \u201cI\u2019m not sure at the moment if he will be available for the call-up on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Lucas Perri returned to team training on Wednesday but is unlikely to threaten Karl Darlow\u2019s place until after the imminent international break.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome good news is Lucas Perri is back in team training since yesterday,\u201d Farke added. \u201cIt\u2019s too early to involve him for this game, but the international break will be beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have two more weeks of training and I expect him then also to be available for our games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leeds return to action against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Photo: Jack Thomas\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United may be without Dan James until the November international break after the winger rolled his ankle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,2922,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-468598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-leeds-united","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115304965358022327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}