Injured Team Melli & Fulham midfielder Ashkan Dejagah will miss the rest of the Barclays Premier League season, manager Martin Jol has confirmed.

Dejagah requires an operation to repair ankle ligament damage suffered when he collided with an advertising hoarding in Fulham’s 3-2 victory over QPR on April 1. The Iranian will go under the knife next week and he will not play again this campaign.

“Ashkan Dejagah needs an operation on his ankle ligament. That will be next week and I think he will be out for the rest of the season,” Jol said.

This is a major blow for Team Melli who is involved in the Qualifying rounds of the FIFA World Cup 2014. With the team struggling in the group currently lying third behind Uzbekistan and Korea Rep and with the same points as Qatar , Iran will find it tough going without their best midfielder with crucial matches coming thick and fast on June.

Team Melli will complete the qulifiers in June with three consecutive matches on the 4th , 11th and 18th against Qatar in Doha, Lebanon at Azadi and finally Korea in Seoul receptively. It seems that Dejagah will be out of those 3 matches and at best can re-join the team for the AC Asian Cup 2-15 qualifiers against Thailand in October 15th.