"I am making slow progress, but it feels a bit like two steps forward one step back at the moment and I won't play this season.
"I have said so many things when people have asked me when I am going to come back. I said Christmas, then January, then February, then March.
"Eventually I realised that it is going to take a lot of time and a lot of work to get fit again and now I have realised that I won't make it.
"For a long time I was thinking that I would be able to play again this season, but the injury that I have is probably the most serious that you can get as a footballer.
"You have to realise what your limitations are and then get the right treatment and rehabilitation programme for it."