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On 21 July 2007 Fowler signed a two-year contract to play for Cardiff City.[48] He missed the season's opening fixtures due to a lack of fitness,[49] making his debut in a League Cup tie on 28 August.[50] He scored his first two Cardiff goals on 22 September 2007 against Preston North End, scoring with two headers.[51] and he then scored twice in his next game, a third round Carling Cup tie against West Brom, which Cardiff won 4–2[52] and were then drawn against Fowler's former Club Liverpool, at Anfield, for the fourth round of the competition but were knocked out in a 2–1 defeat on 31 October.[53]

In November Fowler travelled to Frankfurt,Germany to see Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfarth, a specialist sports injuries doctor, to try and resolve a recurring hip problem that had left him lacking fitness in early season fixtures for the Bluebirds.[54] The treatment involved taking around twenty-eight injections into his hip. He returned to full training in late November[55] and made his comeback on 15 December as a late substitute in a 1–0 defeat against Bristol City. However he went on to suffer another injury blow just days later after a mistimed tackle in training from club captain Darren Purse[56] saw him damage ankle ligaments.[57] Due to the new injury blow Cardiff and Fowler have agreed that he will travel to Colorado, U.S.A. to undergo keyhole surgery on the hip problem which has plagued him in recent years in the hope that it will finally resolve the problem.[58]

On 17 January it was announced that Fowler may miss the rest of the 2007-08 season for Cardiff after his hip operation revealed that the injury was worse than previously thought. Surgeons were forced to perform a micro-fracture in order for the hip to heal properly. He is expected to undergo talks with the Bluebirds about his future at the club with both Fowler and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink on similar one-year deals, with the option of a one-year extension, with only one likely to remain at the club.[59]

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