NEW signing Danny Karbassiyoon will visit a surgeon in a bid to get his Burnley career back on track.

The defender, signed from Arsenal in the summer, has not played a competitive match for the Clarets after injuring his hip in a pre-season match in Austria.

Karbassiyoon, who agreed a two-year deal at Turf Moor, has made little progress since that game against Wacker Berghausen.

Clarets boss Steve Cotterill said: "Danny's not coming along at all.

"He's got another appointment with the surgeon which is somewhat worrying for everyone, but we'll wait and see."

Meanwhile, Danny Coyne has been rewarded for his World Cup heroics by getting the goalkeeping gloves for the home Championship clash with Cardiff City tomorrow.

And Cotterill wants the Welsh number one to capitalise on the confidence he has gained from his performances against England and Poland.

Coyne denied Wayne Rooney with a couple of spectacular saves on Saturday and was only beaten by a penalty in Warsaw as Wales lost both games 1-0.

Now he has the perfect opportunity to edge ahead of Brian Jensen in the race to become Burnley's number one.

Cotterill said: "Danny's now had five games on the spin, which he's probably benefited from, so he'll come back here and will be in the team against Cardiff.

"I just think at the moment he is nudging himself ahead in that competition.

"I wanted one of them to grab it by the scruff of the neck and win it because I don't have anything personal against them, so after Brian got his injury I told Danny he was going to be playing in the next three games.

"Now he's had two excellent games for Wales and that's good for us because it will kickstart his season after an up and down start.

"Sometimes you can curse international breaks but on this occasion it's been a big boost to us."

Far from considering his keeping a selection problem, Cotterill wishes he had a similar fight for places in other areas of the squad.

He admits that, while he managed to boost the numbers ahead of the transfer deadline, cover in other positions isn't blessed with the experience in the goalkeeping department.

Cotterill added: "If I had the competition all round the park that I had between those two goalkeepers that would be quite nice.

"It's not a dilemma to me, people make more of an issue of it than I do. I don't go home and cry on my pillow that I'm leaving one of them out, I'd rather have 22 players and 11 of them disappointed every week than not.

"So it's good we are starting to get a little bit of competition in certain areas. We've had to go very young, we've had to go inexperienced at this level and those players who have come in will be better in 12 months time than they will be on Saturday.

"That's not to say they won't be good on Saturday but the point I'm trying to make is we will be better in 12 months time because people will have adjusted to playing at this level."