Neil Warnock reveals significant Middlesbrough injury setback with Marcus Browne set for cruciate operation

The 23-year-old was stretched off just before half-time during Boro’s FA Cup defeat at Brentford last weekend.

Browne had just recovered from a hamstring issue and impressed during the Teessiders’ 3-1 win at Wycombe, when he got on the scoresheet, at the start of the year.

Yet further scans on Friday revealed a significant setback for the player, who is now set to have an operation.

When asked about Browne following Boro’s defeat by Birmingham at the Riverside, manager Neil Warnock said: “It’s bad news on Marcus, the consultant thinks that it might be a cruciate when he’s looked at the scans.

“I think he will be operated on in the next sort of ten days when the swelling has gone down.

“He can’t really give me a time frame because he doesn’t know what’s inside, because he had a problem with his knee cap.

“The good thing for Marcus is the surgeon is going to mend his knee cap at the same time as he does his cruciate.

“Because he’s a young lad he’ll heel and he’ll get back. I said to him you feel bad because you’ve done so well to get back but there’s a lot worse in life, when you look at Sol Bamba, my old player.

“I said you have to have your operation and get yourself fit again to get as sharp as he has done.”

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