Former Hibs player sues club over training injury

A erstwhile Hibernian subordinate is suing the Scottish Premiership nine implicit injuries suffered successful a grooming crippled involving an ex-manager.

Lawyers for Jake Doyle-Hayes said the midfielder's vocation had been "greatly restricted" by the ankle contented sustained successful a tackle with Lee Johnson successful 2022.

Doyle-Hayes, 26, who besides played for St Mirren and Aston Villa, raised a compensation enactment against the nine astatine the Court of Session successful Edinburgh connected Wednesday.

A Hibs spokesperson said the nine was alert of the claim.

On his release, the nine said that Doyle-Hayes' playing clip "had been hampered by wounded implicit the past 2 seasons".

The Republic of Ireland younker international's lawyers said that was down to "horrific injuries" suffered successful the incidental during the grooming session.

He underwent country arsenic a effect of the tackle by Johnson successful 2022.

Thompsons Solicitors, representing Doyle-Hayes, said they could not remark connected the fig sought by the subordinate but said the imaginable nonaccomplishment of net was substantial.

They reason that, without the injury, his vocation would person continued astatine a higher level.

Joel Shaw, spouse astatine the firm, said the midfielder's vocation had been "lost" arsenic a effect of the injury.

He said: "The interaction of this has greatly restricted his career.

"These injuries should ne'er person happened and were incurred owed to incompetent and incoherent decisions made by his manager.

"Jake's vocation has been derailed by mismanagement and ineptitude. A vocation has been mislaid to this athlete."

Johnson, who antecedently managed Bristol City and Sunderland, was sacked by Hibs successful August 2023.

He was astir precocious interim manager astatine Lommel SK successful the 2nd tier of Belgian football.

Johnson declined to remark erstwhile contacted by BBC Scotland News.

A Hibs spokesperson said: "The nine is alert of the claim, nevertheless arsenic an ongoing substance shall not beryllium commenting further astatine this stage."