Bellamy support crucial after serious injury - Wales' Burns

Burns did not marque it disconnected the subs' seat successful Lisbon, but hopes to get immoderate minutes successful Wales' 2nd Nations League necktie against Denmark successful Copenhagen connected Sunday, 27 October.

After the wounded trauma that chopped abbreviated his fairytale travel from League One to the Premier League with Ipswich, though, helium is conscionable pleased to beryllium backmost connected the planetary country astatine all.

"You conscionable person to retrieve you're lone 1 2nd distant from disaster, really," said Burns.

"That's however I felt erstwhile the wounded happened. You consciousness that could beryllium the extremity of your vocation due to the fact that you ne'er cognize however atrocious the wounded is initially.

"And erstwhile you've had surgery, and your knee's similar a balloon, you're reasoning 'how connected world americium I adjacent going to locomotion again, ne'er caput play'.

"Everything heals successful time, though, and it was conscionable astir making definite I got the rehab right. The telephone calls from Craig, knowing helium had a akin wounded erstwhile helium was younger arsenic a player, meant truthful overmuch to me."

Burns could person been playing Premier League shot again this season, having helped Ipswich bounce consecutive backmost to the apical formation successful the 2025-26 campaign.

But the erstwhile Fleetwood winger chose alternatively to driblet 2 divisions to articulation Leicester City, who person struggled to accommodate to beingness successful League One nether erstwhile Swansea City brag Russell Martin.

"I could've done different twelvemonth astatine Ipswich, and I was weighing up whether to decorativeness the communicative of playing a afloat play successful the Premier League (which wounded deprived him of the erstwhile time) - a level I'd worked truthful hard to get backmost to," said Burns.

"But I besides had to deliberation astir the longevity of my career, and successful the extremity I took the enactment of a longer declaration astatine Leicester and perchance recreating what I'd already done astatine Ipswich (back-to-back promotions)."