Jewison Bennette is set to undergo shoulder surgery in the next week with Sunderland boss Tony Mowbray hopeful the winger will be fit when the players return for pre-season. Bennette suffered a dislocated shoulder in a training session with Costa Rica while away on international duty last week, which ruled him out of his country's CONCACAF Nations League game against Panama.
He was pictured with his right arm in a sling as he arrived to watch the Costa Rica game from the stands, and Mowbray said the 18-year-old would be ruled out for the remainder of Sunderland's run-in. Bennette visited a specialist in London this week and will have the shoulder pinned to reduce the chances of a recurrence - a similar procedure to the one undergone by Luke O'Nien in December 2021, and which sidelined him for three months last season.
In Bennette's case, a three-month recovery period would mean he would be fit around the time Sunderland's players regroup at the Academy of Light in early July to begin preparing for the new season. "Jewi was in London the other day for a second opinion - it was good, actually, because the two specialists he has seen are both Spanish-speaking, which helps," said Mowbray.
