Millar closes in on his City return

BUT STAR WILL BE PATIENT AND TAKE NO RISKS

- By BARRY COOPER

Liam Millar says the feeling he'll get when he walks back on the pitch for the first time since recovering from a knee injury will be indescribable.

Millar has not played since rupturing his ACL against Burnley in October, but is closing in on a return to action after eight months of gruelling rehab work.

A return to first-team football is still a little while off for the popular Canadian, who is not yet able to be involved in contact training as he awaits more results on his progress, which are expected towards the end of the month.

"It’s good and coming along nicely," the Canadian told the Mail at the club's training camp in Riva. "All on track, hopefully just going away, just trying to get my knee to the rotational bits again. Hopefully, we'll be training roughly sometime soon, and then we'll go from there.

"I've not been on a preseason camp in a long time, so it’s nice just to get away, to be around the lads. Being out and away from the team for a long time with injury, it's nice to be around the lads again, reconnect and go through the stuff that you normally go through as a team. It’s been nice to do that again."