pfim
Player Valuation: £50m
If the foot is amputated, he'll be out for more than 6-8 weeks. I don't have a source.
If the foot is amputated, he'll be out for more than 6-8 weeks. I don't have a source.
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £60m
If that's true then he will go back to City, we are not going too pay his wages whilst he sits with his feet up in the sunshine somewhere.
I'm guessing back by end of March
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
2026?
It’s been said a lot but, our luck …..
Sunderland don't have a better squad than Everton.
PercyPlant
Player Valuation: £15m
Loan should be cancelled if we can and if we have any business sense. “Months” in its best term means he will play last 4-7 games, that wage simply isn’t worth it. He’d be effectively on 1/2 a million quid a week.
AI says 3 months for a foot stress fracture to heal....
BrendanGOT
Player Valuation: £30m
Weird the club released a statement, makes me think he’s heading back to City or they’ve put it out as Bobble leaked it
NorthernBlue
Player Valuation: £35m
Got to be unluckiest club in the land
KevMirallas
Player Valuation: £35m
Stress fracture in the foot is very likely season over. Stranger things have happened but those are not normally quick recoveries. Mind then looks forward to a few scenarios:
If we leave the squad as is, does that mean McNeil gets the rest of the season? Or is this an opening for Dibling to establish a position? Think we all know the answer to that.
If we try to find a winger in the last two weeks of the January window, just how incredibly bad is that signing going to be? We talking El Ghazi levels here or what?
Is that the last we have seen of Grealish in an Everton kit? I feel like even the revised 30 million would be too much in the summer, but I do hope some sort of deal can be struck. He has elevated the team overall this season, even if the impact has faded in recent months. It's been enjoyable to watch an Everton team with him in it.
And obviously I'm not the first to raise it, but the amount of soft tissue and now stress injuries being sustained at Finch Farm can not be a coincidence. Needs a proper investigation at some point, lest we spend every season missing two or three of our best players for long stretches from training injuries.
If we leave the squad as is, does that mean McNeil gets the rest of the season? Or is this an opening for Dibling to establish a position? Think we all know the answer to that.
If we try to find a winger in the last two weeks of the January window, just how incredibly bad is that signing going to be? We talking El Ghazi levels here or what?
Is that the last we have seen of Grealish in an Everton kit? I feel like even the revised 30 million would be too much in the summer, but I do hope some sort of deal can be struck. He has elevated the team overall this season, even if the impact has faded in recent months. It's been enjoyable to watch an Everton team with him in it.
And obviously I'm not the first to raise it, but the amount of soft tissue and now stress injuries being sustained at Finch Farm can not be a coincidence. Needs a proper investigation at some point, lest we spend every season missing two or three of our best players for long stretches from training injuries.
It will depend on the loan deal. There might not be a contractual clause that allows him to be sent back while saving wages. This sort of thing will have been discussed in the negotiations. City might well have said no to it.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
It's likely a season-ender. A tough blow, but it is what it is. If we didn't have such a poor squad, we'd cope. Mind you, given we're not playing for a whole lot now, it's all relative. If we were in the FA Cup with a fair chance of progression, this would be even worse. As it is, he just takes a little bit of the remaining sparkle out of the season.
ChatGPT stress fracture prem footballer
Stress fracture in Premier League football (realistic timeline)
For an elite footballer, most foot stress fractures (usually metatarsals) look like this:
Typical recovery
Minimum: 6 weeks
How the timeline usually breaks down
Weeks 0–2
Weeks 5–6
Stress fracture in Premier League football (realistic timeline)For an elite footballer, most foot stress fractures (usually metatarsals) look like this:
Typical recovery
Minimum: 6 weeks
- More common: 8–10 weeks
- If it’s slow-healing or high-risk: 10–12+ weeks
- That’s return to match play, not just jogging.
How the timeline usually breaks down
Weeks 0–2
- Full rest from impact
- Boot or protective shoe
- MRI/CT to confirm location & severity
- Pool work, bike, anti-gravity treadmill
- No sharp turns or sprints
Weeks 5–6
- Straight-line running
- Gradual loading
- Modified boots / carbon plate insert
- Team training
- Controlled contact
- Match minutes managed carefully
- Week 8–10
- Full return if pain-free and imaging looks good
