Sunderland midfielder Carlos Edwards has broken his leg, his agent has confirmed.

The Trinidad & Tobago international suffered a fracture in the weekend victory over Derby County and will now be sidelined until the New Year.

"The good thing is that it's clean break with no other complications as such so it will take him about six weeks before he can be back on the pitch," his agent Mike Berry confirmed to TTFF Media.

"But as the saying goes here in Trinidad, it seems like the guy needs a good bush bath because he has the worst run of injuries in the past year than he's had in ten years or so.

"It's been a nightmare for him. He got over the hamstring injury and came back against Everton and then got injured again versus Derby.

"The one good thing about Carlos is he's a class player so we have to keep our fingers crossed that he's not have further injury problems.

"It's a clean break which means it will not take too long to heal and there is no ligament damage. We expect 4-6 weeks before he's back."