{"id":417397,"date":"2011-05-04T15:14:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T15:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/04\/sunderland-won%e2%80%99t-risk-ghana-defender-john-mensah\/"},"modified":"2011-05-04T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T15:14:58","slug":"sunderland-wont-risk-ghana-defender-john-mensah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/sunderland-wont-risk-ghana-defender-john-mensah\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland Won\u2019t Risk Ghana Defender John Mensah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"63\">Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"7\"><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-28490\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/sunderland-won%E2%80%99t-risk-ghana-defender-john-mensah\/john-mensah-image-3-114033616\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28490\" title=\"Sunderland won't risk Ghana defender John Mensah\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanasoccernet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/john-mensah-image-3-114033616.jpg\" alt=\"Even as his injury crisis deepens, Sunderland coach Steve Bruce is refusing to rush John Mensah\u2019s return for fear that the Ghana captain will head straight back into an overcrowded treatment room.\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Mensah has just recovered from injury<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Even as his injury crisis deepens, Sunderland coach Steve Bruce is refusing to rush John Mensah\u2019s return for fear that the Ghana captain will head straight back into an overcrowded treatment room.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The centre-back was an unused substitute in Saturday\u2019s 3-0 defeat at home to Fulham, but that does not necessarily mean he is in line to make his latest injury comeback at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>With Jordan Henderson and Lee Cattermole doubtful, Bruce is desperately short of options for this weekend\u2019s Premier League trip to Bolton Wanderers.<\/p>\n<p>But, having seen Mensah break down after returning too soon from injury in the past, he will take a cautious approach with the on-loan defender.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn trained for three days last week, but in the past I\u2019ve put him in and he\u2019s broken down again,\u201d said Bruce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll look at him again in training this week and take it from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mensah\u2019s agent, Fabien Piveteau, told The Journal yesterday he is optimistic his client will be back at the Stadium of Light for a third season in August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: Journal Live<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ghanasoccernet.com\/2011\/05\/sunderland-won\u2019t-risk-ghana-defender-john-mensah\/\" title=\"Sunderland Won\u2019t Risk Ghana Defender John Mensah\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunderland Won\u2019t Risk Ghana Defender John Mensah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#8217;s most authoritative football news website. John Mensah has just recovered from injury Even as his injury crisis deepens, Sunderland coach Steve Bruce is refusing to rush John Mensah\u2019s return for fear that the Ghana captain will head straight back into an overcrowded treatment room. The centre-back was an unused substitute in Saturday\u2019s 3-0 defeat at home to Fulham, but that does not necessarily mean he is in line to make his latest injury comeback at the weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sunderland Won\u2019t Risk Ghana Defender John Mensah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/04\/sunderland-wont-risk-ghana-defender-john-mensah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sunderland Won\u2019t Risk Ghana Defender John Mensah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Welcome to Ghanasoccernet.com, Ghana&#039;s most authoritative football news website. 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