{"id":709225,"date":"2026-07-24T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709225\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:00:10","slug":"fisher-and-makama-to-miss-start-of-the-championship-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709225\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisher and Makama to miss start of the Championship season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The City chief confirmed after the St Gallen test that Makama<\/a> was unavailable after taking a knock to his foot during the behind-closed-doors friendly against Colchester at Colney, before explaining on Wednesday evening that Fisher<\/a> missed the Wimbledon friendly due to an ankle injury sustained in training.\n<\/p>\n

\n It is understood Fisher will be sidelined for six weeks, while Makama is expected to miss four weeks.\n<\/p>\n

\n The news comes after widespread speculation on social media following the goalless draw with the Wombles in south-west London<\/a>, with Makama pictured wearing a protective boot and Fisher’s omission coming less than 24 hours after reports of Premier League interest from Hull City.\n<\/p>\n

\n It’s worth stressing that, unlike last season’s run of muscular and soft-tissue injuries, both setbacks stemmed from contact incidents.\n<\/p>\n

\n Jovon Makama took a knock to the foot in City’s pre-season clash with Colchester (Image: Paul Chesterton\/Focus Images Ltd)\n<\/p>\n

\n Lucien Mahovo’s<\/a> injury also falls into that category, with Clement confirming last week that the full-back had suffered ankle ligament damage following what he described as ‘unlucky contact’ with a Colchester defender, ruling him out for three months.\n<\/p>\n

\n Despite a gruelling pre-season schedule featuring multiple double training sessions, Errol Mundle-Smith is the only player to have missed friendlies because of a muscle-related issue, with the attacker sidelined by a minor hamstring problem.\n<\/p>\n

\n That comes after a summer reshuffle of Norwich’s medical and sports science departments, with the appointments of Dr Paul Ford, Andrew Proctor and Dr Pippa Bennett aimed at reducing non-contact absences.\n<\/p>\n

\n For Fisher, it represents the first significant lay-off of his Canaries career, having featured 102 times over the past three seasons since his arrival from Bromley. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n The timing is particularly cruel for Makama, who had only just returned to action earlier this month after spending five months out with the broken foot he sustained during February’s 2-0 win over Blackburn Rovers at Carrow Road.\n<\/p>\n

\n Norwich are not expected to seek short-term reinforcements in the transfer market at this stage. Jack Stacey can deputise at right-back, while Mathias Kvistgaarden has impressed during pre-season and will soon be joined in attack by the returning Mo Toure.\n<\/p>\n

\n As previously reported, the Canaries’ remaining transfer priority is a new left-back, with Ben Knapper and his recruitment team assessing multiple options in that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City chief confirmed after the St Gallen test that Makama was unavailable after taking a knock to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}