Oxford United’s Jack Currie to undergo surgery on ankle

Currie has missed the last three games due to an injury to his ankle and experienced another knock in training on Friday.

U’s boss Bloomfield shed light on the situation after his side’s 2-0 victory over Watford which the left back watched from the stands.

“Jack needs to have an operation at the end of the season; I don’t think I’m breaking any medical secrets by telling you that,” Bloomfield revealed.

“He’s got a slight issue with his ankle. Nothing serious, but he needs to have that tidied up. He had a little bit of a knock again in training yesterday.

Jack Currie carries the ball (Image: Mike Allen)

“The decision at the moment is a big threat for Watford was coming down their right-hand side and Brodie is an incredible one versus one defender, pace, power. He scored last week, is really good at defending down his side, was a better option than Jack at 70, 80 per cent for instance. But Jack doesn’t want to have his operation yet.

“He’s going to have it at the end of the season. So he’s available for us when we need him. We will need him at some point, I’m sure.

Despite being available for the Yellows in theory, Currie remained missing from the match day squad against Hornets, along with Aidomo Emakhu and Nik Prelec.

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“The reason for not having him on the bench is because Hidde can play both sides,” the 42-year-old head coach explained.

“Plus, any player can come on the pitch and get injured and come off again. But because we feel like there’s an extra risk for Jack with his ankle, if we put him on, are we going to need to take him off?

“That may happen at some point. But, yeah, the explanation for today was…in fact, the player that we were defending, Irankunda, went over the other side because Brodie defended him so well in the first half. So that was the reason for that selection.

Nik Prelec on the ball against Bristol City (Image: Mike Allen)

Slovenian striker Prelec missed out on the squad unexpectedly, leaving U’s fans questioning his absence, with Bloomfield also disclosed.

“Nik rolled his ankle in training on Thursday. Trained yesterday but didn’t feel confident in his ankle. So I don’t think it’s serious.

“We hope to have him back available as soon as possible. But yeah, that was the reason why he came out of the squad for today.”