2025/26 Jack Grealish

I presume that we can send him back in that case and put his high wages into one or two loans instead.

Shame for Jack and hope he recovers quickly and maybe we can get him back on loan again next year.
 
KevMirallas said:
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.
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As much as I'd want him back, you have to be very careful with the fee coming off a bad injury. 30m for a 30 plus year old who had a stress fracture is not smart business. We would need the fee to be more reasonable.
 
Noisy noise annoys said:
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
  • 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
Weeks 3–4





  • Pool work, bike, anti-gravity treadmill
  • No sharp turns or sprints

Weeks 5–6





  • Straight-line running
  • Gradual loading
  • Modified boots / carbon plate insert
Weeks 7–9





  • Team training
  • Controlled contact
  • Match minutes managed carefully



  • Week 8–10





  • Full return if pain-free and imaging looks good
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Given our injury record, perhaps we have been using Chat GPT already
 
We will have basically a 3 week break after the Chelsea match where we have no matches

If he’s back to fitness by early April he potentially could play in the last 7

The fact we’ve put a statement out means I’m thinking he might be done
 
ToffeeTim said:
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.
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Given he didn't have great fitness when he came here if we have agreed too something like that then I have little sympathy for the club tbh. You don't enter agreements with players of that age without a get out incase of an issue.
 

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