Ruben Vinagre’s Everton career looks over after manager Sean Dyche confirmed the player is facing a prolonged period on the sidelines while also addressing his side’s poor away form.
Having known Vinagre from his time at Wolverhampton Wanderers, Everton director of football Kevin Thelwell snapped up the former Portuguese Under-21 international on a season-long loan from Sporting CP last summer when Frank Lampard was manager. There was an option to buy included in the deal but the left-back has played just 24 minutes of Premier League football this term in a brace of substitute appearances – 20 minutes against Chelsea on the opening day and then four minutes at Brentford later in August.
Vinagre’s only other outings have been a brace of Carabao Cup starts at Fleetwood Town at Bournemouth and he hasn’t been included in the first team squad since he was last on the bench at Nottingham Forest on March 5. Dyche said: “He’s got an injury and unfortunately it’s going to keep him out for some time. He may need surgery, we’re not sure yet, he’s seeing the specialist so that decision will be made pretty imminently I think.”
