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Burnley striker Lyle Foster has taken a break from football to receive mental health treatment.
Burnley have announced that striker Lyle Foster will be out for an indefinite amount of time as he is taking a break from football to receive mental health treatment.
The South African striker has missed Burnley's last three games due to what the club tagged as an "unspecified illness" but they have no revealed the real reason for his absence.
Burnley put out an official statement containing an update on Foster's situation and assured the general public that he is getting the best help possible.
Burnley statement on Lyle Foster
"On behalf of Lyle Foster and his family, they have asked us to share an update with you on Lyle's illness. Recently, Lyle let us know that he continues to live with issues around his mental well-being and has reached out for help"
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“He is currently in the care of specialists - giving him the support and care he needs to help him back to full health."
"With the love and support of his family and everyone at Burnley Football Club, we will do all we can to provide everything he needs to get better."
“We ask for your understanding and respect Lyle’s privacy around this matter and will not be making any more comment until further notice.”
Vincent Kompany on Lyle Foster
Burnley manager, Vincent Kompany also shared his thoughts on Lyle Foster, showing support to the 23-year-old while speaking to the Burnley website.
“As a club we’ve very quickly and very naturally took the decision to support him and support his family. We have offered him access to all the expertise and clinical support that he needs."
“At the moment we’re wishing him a speedy recovery and wishing him to be in a better place by the time he’s ready to come back to us."
“We were very fortunate that Lyle had been very open with us and from that moment we were able to act. As soon as he said it and showed signs of how severe it was for him, straight away the entire support team within the club mobilised and we made sure that he could focus on his own recovery."
“In moments like this you have to put the human first and that’s what we did. We’ll provide the best care possible for him to get over his mental health issues, and it’s not something in this world that is a taboo."
“It was a breaking point for him and we felt also we could show how much we were dedicated to the players with us, but the people with us."
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“We’re doing everything we can to get him to a place where he can do what he enjoys doing the most, which is playing football as soon as possible, because that will also affect his mental well-being positively in the future. “But at this moment he’s one of us and we need to look after our own.”
Foster is Burnley's top scorer with three goals in what has been a horrid return to the Premier League for Kompany's men so far and they will be hoping to turn it around with his help.
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