Hull City midfielder Robert Snodgrass will be sidelined for six months with a knee injury, the English Premier League club announced on Twitter.
Snodgrass, 26, who joined the ‘Tigers’ from Championship side Norwich City for £7m in the close season, Snodgrass dislocated his knee-cap and damaged ligaments in the first half of Hull’s 1-0 league win at Queens Park Rangers on Saturday.
“(Manager) Steve Bruce has revealed Robert Snodgrass could be out for up to six months with a dislocated knee cap,” Hull said. “Everyone at the club would like to wish @robsnodgrass7 a speedy recovery,” the club tweeted on Wednesday.
Hull, runners-up in last season’s FA Cup final, visit Belgian side Lokeren on Thursday for the first leg of a UEFA Europa League play-off tie. As well as Hull’s fixtures, Snodgrass will also miss Scotland’s opening 2016 UEFA EURO qualifiers against Germany, Georgia, Poland and the Republic of Ireland, plus a friendly against England in November.