David Moyes insists Yakubu will need more time to be back at his goalscoring best: Everton FC latest

17 October 2009 06:30
David Moyes insists Yakubu will need more time to be back at his goalscoring best[LNB]DAVID MOYES has warned that it may be months before Yakubu recaptures the goalscoring form he showed before his Achilles tendon injury last November.[LNB]Yakubu scored within 11 minutes of his first team return at Hull City last month.[LNB]But after almost 11 months out of action he has showed understandable signs of rustiness.[LNB]And Everton boss Moyes warned: 'We don't know if it's going to be right in a week or three or four months.[LNB]'We're not sure, but he's definitely not at the level he was before he went out of the side.[LNB]'It's sharpness and balance that's lacking.[LNB]'You don't realise how many times you're on one foot or the other, and if you rupture the Achilles it doesn't have the elasticity back in it.[LNB]'It sometimes looks like you're not quite there in your reactive time.'

Source: Liverpool_Echo