By TownFans.co.uk
January 7 2013

Scunthorpe have this afternoon confirmed that striker Nathan Ellington will return to Portman Road after they decided not to take up an option of an extended spell.

Ellington, has struggled to make an impact at Town since joining in the summer of 2011 and failed to score in 17 games in his first season at the club. Having fallen further down the pecking order, Ellington joined Scunthorpe on loan in November as he aimed to get some much needed first team football.

However 'The Duke' as he likes to be known, has seen his spell at The Iron be disruputed by injury and has made just two starts and appeared four times as a sub since joining, failing to find the scoresheet, with his original loan spell coming to an end following Saturday's game against Shrewsbury.

Scunthorpe boss Brian Laws said this morning that he was going to make a decision on the future of Ellington in the next 24 hours, and that decision has now been made and the 31 year old will return to Town after not doing enough to win a longer spell at the Iron.

Confirming the news, Laws said that the signing of Akpo Sodje means that Ellington could no longer be kept on: "Now that we have Akpo in there we have no finances to maintain Nathan Ellington being here.

"He has been hit and miss and it has been a bit of a stop start scenario. We cannot afford to carry on like that"

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