It is frustrating for him and it is frustrating for me because it would give me another element in the competition for places up front," the Fulham boss has said.
"Jari has had Achilles and ankle operations and needs these insoles to correct certain movement in his ankles which, if it doesn't get corrected, brings about muscle strains," Hodgson explained.
"That's exactly what has happened - he has got a strain on the inside of his thigh that has come about because the new insoles that he thought were going to work didn't."