The club boss suggested the defender is unlikely to start the new season with the Seagulls
Brighton and Hove Albion defender Tariq Lamptey is unlikely to be fit for the start of the 2021-22 Premier League season, club boss Graham Potter has hinted.
The Ghana target has been out of action since suffering a hamstring injury in December last year and was forced to go under the knife.
He did return to training as pre-season began earlier this month but has been forced back into the treatment room by a relapse.
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"It’s a little bit slower than we would like and probably he would like but with the nature of his surgery and the injury, we need to make sure that he’s right rather than putting any timescale on it," Potter told the Athletic.