Shrewsbury Town willing to tailor regime for new-boy Lenell John-Lewis
Shrewsbury Town are willing to tailor the training regime of new signing Lenell John-Lewis to aid his recovery from a horrific knee injury.
The 28-year-old striker was named as Town's second summer signing yesterday and is no stranger to boss Paul Hurst, who guided John-Lewis to his best goalscoring return two seasons ago.
But after securing a move to League Two Newport County, where he scored five goals 32 debut season games, the ex-Bury man picked up a horror knee injury forcing him to sit out almost all of last season.
He returned to feature for a combination of 90 minutes for the Exiles as they staged a great escape at the tail end of last season.
And Hurst is willing to tailor the forward's training regime.
The boss said: “He’s back from a pretty horrific injury in truth, but we’ve had him assessed, we’ve looked at it and we believe we can help improve that situation and monitor him daily.
“I can't speak highly enough of Chris (Skitt, physio) and the work that he will do with Lenell to make sure that we are giving him the best chance possible to be fit for all the games.
“If that means at times adapting his training slightly then that is something we will look at, but overall for me the deal is certainly worth doing and obviously there’s lots of considerations that go into something like that.
"He was excellent for us at Grimsby and unfortunately we lost him when league football came calling,
“He’s not what everyone would call a natural goalscorer – his game is much more than that.
“He does a job for the team and he’s often the player that takes a lot of the attention away for others to exploit, but he did manage 20 goals that year.”
