CITY manager Bryan Gunn has confirmed striker Chris Killen has gone back to Scotland for compassionate reasons.
Killen is back training with his parent club Celtic after falling down the pecking order at Carrow Road, but remains contracted to the Canaries. The New Zealander, who has made just four appearances as a sub for City since moving south in the January transfer window, has a young family who are still living in Scotland and is expected to be given more playing opportunities in behind-closed-door games for the Glasgow giants.
Speaking to the Eastern Daily Press, Gunn said he can call upon Killen whenever he wants should he find himself short of options up front.
"We still have call on him in the next eight games," said Gunn. "It is a convenient thing to do, a compassionate thing. Chris has been frustrated at the lack of opportunities, mainly because of the fitness of Carl Cort in the last month - I don't think we realised how much Carl would be available - and other strikers who have come in, the likes of Cody McDonald and Alan Gow, who are now in front of him in my thinking.
"It is an opportunity for him to go back and train but to come back should we need him. It's better than him travelling around the country every weekend and watching from the stands."
