Swansea City have been dealt an injury blow after confirming that central defender Kyle Bartley will be out of action for a period of around three months following knee surgery.
Bartley, who returned to the club in the summer after spending last season on loan with Leeds, had started the Premier League defeat against Manchester United but was stretchered from the field after landing awkwardly in the Carabao Cup clash with MK Dons a few days later.
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The club explained that Bartley was initially expected to miss between six and eight weeks of action, with the surgery now taking his anticipated recovery time to 12 weeks.