Poku could return for 'last dozen games'
Kwame Poku joined Peterborough from Colchester in 2021 on a four-year contract
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Peterborough United boss Darren Ferguson hopes to have forward Kwame Poku back for the final two months of the season.
The 23-year-old - who Ferguson believes is the best player in League One - has scored 10 goals in 20 appearances this season, but needed surgery after suffering a hamstring injury in early December
Posh are 20th in the table, four points clear of the relegation places, with 17 matches remaining, starting with Tuesday's trip to Charlton Athletic.
"Kwame is on schedule, we're looking towards the end of the month for him," Ferguson told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.
"We're going to have to go gently with him, I'm obviously not going to risk a further injury for him, that's the most important thing.
"I'm looking at Kwame probably getting the last dozen league games of the season, whether that's starting or just gradually building him up with minutes.
"But just because he comes back, it doesn't mean we're going to win every game. The other players have a responsibility, without Kwame in the team, to start winning some more games, and that's what we're looking at.
"It can only be a massive bonus for him to be back because he's the best player in the league. Any team would miss him, but we can't use that as an excuse."
Peterborough are through to the semi-finals of the EFL Trophy - which they won last season - in which they will be away to Wrexham or Bolton Wanderers.
But Ferguson views securing their third-tier status as the main priority and has urged his side to show greater resilience.
"We have got a mini-table - there are nine teams that we have to better or match to make sure that we're in the league next season," the Scot said.
"It can't be so simple, in football or in life, that everything goes the way you want it to. It doesn't work that way.
"This season's been tough, this season's been a season we have to learn from, it's now a season where we have to make sure we stay in the league and try and win the cup, that's the reality."