When asked about the player’s long-term future, Carver said: “It’s a difficult question to answer because I’m only thinking about the now, and I haven’t got him for seven games.
“But the fact is he scores goals. It’s his goal ratio that we were talking about just before this.
“He’s up there with the best, so he is going to be a miss, there’s no danger of that.
“Any team would miss their top goalscorer. But we have got to deal with it.”