Everton pre-season squad absences explained after triple injury update

Mason Holgate, Vitalii Mykolenko and Jean Philippe-Gbamin have not travelled to Everton’s pre-season training camp due to injury, the ECHO understands.

The players were not among the travelling party that flew to the Alps on Monday morning.

Club captain Seamus Coleman was also absent as he works through the later stages of recovery from the knee injury that ended last season prematurely for the 34-year-old.

They will continue to work at Finch Farm while their teammates are tested by Sean Dyche at the club's base on the border of France and Switzerland.

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Everton named a 28-player tour group for the training camp on the border between France and Switzerland. The squad is scheduled to end the trip with a friendly with Swiss side Stade Nyonnais on Friday.

Among that group are several academy players while Demarai Gray, James Garner and Jarrad Branthwaite’s involvement has been restricted by international duty.

The other notable absences are Coleman, Holgate, Mykolenko and Gbamin. Holgate, pictured in training at Finch Farm last week as the squad started pre-season, has been sidelined with a minor injury, as has Mykolenko, who is undergoing treatment after suffering a setback. Gbamin remains under rehabilitation for an injury picked up while on loan at Trabzonspor last season.

The futures of both Gbamin and Holgate are uncertain. Gbamin's agent has been vocal about not seeing a future for his player on Merseyside while Everton are understood to be willing to listen to offers for Holgate, who has attracted the interest of Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United.