Everton’s Jack Grealish feared out for multiple months with suspected foot stress fracture – The Athletic
Everton’s Jack Grealish has sustained a suspected stress fracture in his foot that could keep him out for a number of months.
The attacker will be seen by a specialist in the coming days, after which his prognosis will become clearer.
Grealish played the whole of the away win to former side Aston Villa on Sunday, in which.
The 30-year-old joined Everton on loan last summer, with an option to buy in the region of £50million ($67.3m), after falling down the pecking order at Manchester City and not being selected to travel to the Club World Cup in the United States.
He has made 20 league appearances this season — the same number as across the 2024-25 season with City — registering two goals and six assists in that time.
Everton saw the return of captain Seamus Coleman to the bench on Sunday after a hamstring injury, while centre-back Jarrad Branthwaite is still yet to play this season.
They also will have Iliman Ndiaye and Idrissa Gueye back from the Africa Cup of Nations after the pair won the competition with Senegal on Sunday.
What this setback means for Everton
Analysis by Everton correspondent Patrick Boyland
We will have to wait for the specialist to determine the full extent of Grealish’s issue but Tuesday’s news clearly does not bode well.
The 30-year-old loanee has been a key performer so far this season, even if his output has dried up in recent months after a scintillating start.
With Everton already missing a number of key players, there is also a cruelty about this latest setback. Having spent the last month playing with a threadbare squad, it had looked like their crippling injury worries would start to ease.
Iliman Ndiaye and Idrissa Gueye are due back later this week after winning the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) with Senegal, while defender Jarrad Branthwaite is stepping up his own return from a long-term hamstring problem.
Yet Grealish’s injury now gives manager David Moyes a further selection headache and leaves Everton without their talisman at a key juncture in the season. They have invested heavily in the England man, paying around £250,000 of his £300,000 City salary, and an extended absence would harm their chances of qualifying for Europe.
There will no doubt now be a real temptation to pitch Ndiaye straight back into action for Monday’s visit of Leeds United. Like Gueye, he is currently celebrating Senegal’s AFCON win in Dakar.
Fellow winger Dwight McNeil has been the subject of transfer speculation but will now almost certainly be needed too, while summer signing Tyler Dibling will also hope for a more game-time.
Moyes and Everton, though, will surely start to wonder when the tide will ever turn on the injury front.
