Jarrad Branthwaite signed a new contract at Everton in the summer, but after exacerbating his hamstring injury, he misses the opening of a few weeks of the new season
Everton defender Jarrad Brantewaite misses the start of the season after suffering a hamstring injury just days before the Premier League opener in Leeds.
23-year-old centre-back Branthawaite was forced to stop training after being injured in the right hamstring in the same area as Everton’s final match at Goodison Park against Southampton in May.
The postal report reports that Bluntwaite could be on the sidelines until the end of September, allowing him to miss the first six games of the new Premier League season, including Anfield’s Merseyside Derby, as well as Mansfield in the second round of Everton’s Carabao Cup.
Branthawaite, who picked up the England cap so far last year, could be kicked out of Thomas Tuschel’s three-man Lions team contest next month.
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Branthwaite has attracted attention from several Premier League sides before signing a new contract at Everton this summer, and is considered a key figure on the side of David Moe ahead of his first season at the new Hill Dickinson Stadium.
Centre back James Tarkowski’s companion had hamstring surgery earlier this summer and was redirected to action over the preseason, with Jake O’Brien and Michael Keene still in the club’s books.
Moys is already keen to add a new centre-back to his team this summer before Branteito’s injury, and the Scots are eager to add more faces to his team after bringing in midfielders Chiannan Deucebury Hall and Jack Grelish.
Speaking about the club’s US preseason tour, Moys said:
“But we have numbers situations too, but we have a little bit of both because we are shorter numbers. We are really trying to get the first piece of work we want, and that’s what we’ve been fighting for.
“But we’re just starting to think about my goodness, we’re just not getting enough of the line.
“We’re actively working to give it a try (and) so it’s not like a club waiting to sell players before we bring them in. But that’s not really a situation. We have the money to spend and we need to spend wisely.”
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