NEIL WARNOCK has suggested that Neeskens Kebano missed Middlesbrough’s final game of the season because he injured his hamstrings while riding on Djed Spence’s scooter.

Boro signed off for the season with a 3-0 home defeat to Wycombe Wanderers, but Kebano was not involved in the matchday squad.

The Fulham loanee announced he would not be featuring in a social media post on Friday night, a disclosure that clearly infuriated Warnock.

And the Boro boss suggested that Kebano did not pick up his injury in training, but instead suffered a muscular strain after an incident involving a scooter that was picked up on CCTV.

Warnock said: “It was really good of him that (posting on social media), wasn’t it? I’ve thanked him for letting everybody know. He said, ‘Sorry gaffer, I didn’t realise’. I just said, ‘Why don’t you just knock on the door and tell them?’

“He stretched a hamstring, but he couldn’t have done it in training on Thursday because we didn’t do anything. We caught him on CCTV on Djed Spence’s scooter, pushing the scooter round, so we think he did his hamstring like that, on the scooter. That’s how it is. He couldn’t have done it in training.”

Kebano will return to Fulham with his loan move having come to an end, and it is not anticipated that he will return to Teesside for next season.