Baranthwaite's hamstring problem needs surgery

Anyone can verify or dismiss this?

Needs a hamstring op, having just been out for 4 months with a hamstring problem…

Let's hope it's rubbish.

I imagine he’ll be out for at least 3 months.

That’s him out till next year, probably.

How many times have we had this, 'player suffers another setback from a nothing injury, now out for months'?

This always hits a small squad lacking in quality.

Sickening for the lad and a real setback for us.

Sorry to say it's looking like he's one that's always injured. Great shame but he's not the first.

I'm not a medical man, but out since start of season, and now they decide to operate, considering it’s the same injury he had previously? Massive loss.

We are clearly short of defenders now.

How does it raise questions about the medical team? We have gone through numerous medical teams in the last 10 years, with RM blaming Danny Donachie, others blaming his replacements, Rafa blaming and changing everyone, etc etc. A recurrence of an injury is not uncommon. I don't think our medical team today operate in the manner they did back when Walter Smith had medics injecting pain killers directly into Michael Ball's ligaments. It is just one of those things in high level sport.

Fucking gutted.

Back on the grass? Now he's back on his ass.

We should count ourselves lucky Keane didn't sign for anyone else after we released him.

And probably sold to the highest bidder thereafter. Ugh!

Often these injuries are not memorable in themselves, but the attempted rehab is a farce.

Spending more time injured and months recovering from injury than actually playing.

Perhaps we will buy a right-back now?

Can we not wish him a swift recovery instead of looking to sell him?

If we can get good money for him in the summer, then we should sell.

Utterly vile comment. You ruin this site.

You need to get over yourself. It's only bloody football, it's a game.

We'll need to dip into the freeby market surely, to get defensive cover in. An injury to one of our 3 CBs, will leave us one injury away from a crisis.

According to Transfermarket the best available are :

Takehiro Tomiyasu, former Arsenal RB, who has played RCB, LCB and LB. Major concern is the injury record. Knee injury kept him down to just one game last season and a calf injury season before caused him to miss a fair few games. Age 26 and Valued at £18m.

Renan Lodi, former Brazil International LB. Left Al Hilal in summer. Also played for Marseille, Athletico and Forest. He could play LB if Mykolenko was needed to play CB. Myko has played CB 19 times in the past, including for Ukraine. Valued at £13m. Age 27.

Sergio Reguilón, former Spurs LB. As Lodi above, providing cover for Myko. Valued at £6m. Age 28.

and that is it, unless you trawl through TM to find midfielders who can play defensive positions.

Any kind of hamstring procedure or surgery usually takes 4 months recovery time and the fact we've given no definitive timescale on his return says as much.

This has obviously been a major problem for him for a ongoing amount of time now given the football he's missed over the last half a year.

If he's lucky he'll be back training early March, the reality is though we won't be seeing him until April and that's arguable.

We really needed good news on Branthwaite because frankly our defence has looked all over the shop in most games this season.

Isn't it odd how he was lambasted last season (by myself included) and yet this season so far he hasn't put a foot wrong,

Get a right-back, we have cover in Jake.

And for fuck's sake, get us a striker,

Funny thing with Keane, as a long term critic of his myself. He actually did alright under Dyche though he was used sparingly. I wonder if the more pragmatic defensive minded Dyche/Moyes approach just suits him better? Whereas under Silva, Lampard etc they tried to "play" a bit more and him being a bit more skilled on the ball was given license to do that more, thus putting him into more situations where mistakes are costly.

But whatever the reason. He has been playing well of late.

Fact is, our situation hasn't changed. If Moyes hasn't pulled the trigger on a free agent signing so far, I doubt he will now. Jake can still cover a centre-back injury, with Garner dropping to RB and Rohl or Tim coming in. Same as before.

I just feel for Jarrad. Crushed.

Totally agree.Branthwaite out for the season.Feeling for Jarrad and what he must be going through.Mismanaged and he is dependent on them after his surgery.

Kieran#16

Something is definitely wrong .

PH, I've never met anybody who was less of a "snowflake" than Mr. Crooks. Row ZZ with that off-target shot. But you're right about JB being an asset. In the final analysis, aren't we all?

We just wish Jarrad the best and hope to all hope our 3 CBs stay healthy and Branthwaite comes back better than ever.

I'm hoping Mykolenko is not called upon to play centre-back. Incidentally, I thought his performance on Saturday was one of his best in an Everton shirt.

I'm hoping we get loan cover for the Branthwaite injury. I can't see a recovery from surgery and rebuild to match sharpness being a quick process.

Ake was linked in the summer and I certainly wouldn't be against that. But, if we sign a competent right-back then O'Brien can challenge Keane for the other starting position and we are sorted.

For all the negativity Moyes imbues his teams with, he at least knows what he's doing with a centre-back pairing and he's manoeuvred his way at through some tough fixtures this season without leaving Michael Keane exposed in a way that previous managers have.

The only positive is he is only a young man, and will be getting the best care possible, and hopefully we will see him fully fit in the New Year.

I just hope the lad comes through this injury and continues with what could be a very good career, I hope your confidence, Mike @42, is on the ball.

Did Liverpool sell Gerrard, or Man Utd sell Giggs? Of course they didn't because they appreciated how good they both were, so this is exactly what we should be doing with the excellent Jarrad Branthwaite right now