Chelsea captain Reece James releases 96-word statement about ‘another challenge ahead’ after latest injury setback

REECE JAMES is acceptable to instrumentality connected the situation of getting backmost acceptable aft suffering yet different injury.

The defender has been sidelined for overmuch of the past 2 years, and has hardly featured since being named Chelsea skipper past week.

James had lone conscionable returned from his latest injury, making 4 appearances for Enzo Maresca's broadside since the extremity of October.

But helium has present injured his hamstring yet again, with the occupation proving a persistent one.

However the right-back is not excessively down astir his latest setback and helium is determined to flooded his latest challenge.

James released a connection which read: "Hello all, I anticipation and privation you're each well.

"This connection is to the radical that recognize and person respect for what I'm going through. I admit you truthful much, your enactment and benignant messages spell further than you could ever imagine.

"And conscionable to interaction connected me. I'm doing okay, been amended and besides been worse. Another situation up accepted. Eventually I'll travel retired connected top. Against each the odds."

James, 24, besides shared a photograph of a tattoo connected his limb which reads: "I conscionable didn't quit."

The Chelsea skipper has had to acquisition respective rehabilitation and his injuries person kept him retired of the World Cup and Euros.

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He has missed implicit 120 Blues games passim his career, according to Transfermarkt.

James is acceptable to miss Chelsea's next lucifer against Leicester but brag Enzo Maresca played down concerns helium could beryllium a semipermanent absentee.

Maresca said: "We person conscionable 1 injured subordinate and that's Reece [James] who unluckily felt thing tiny successful grooming 2 days agone and we don't privation to instrumentality a hazard for the weekend.

"It's a hamstring, muscular problem. We volition see, we don't cognize for however long, for definite [we privation him acceptable for longer]. At the infinitesimal it is not happening but we anticipation it volition hap soon.

"He is retired this play but hopefully helium tin beryllium backmost soon. It's astir apt hard that helium tin beryllium disposable for the Conference League [next Thursday], but hopefully soon."