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EVERTON FC : HIBBO SURGERY THREAT

/noticias.info/ Tony Hibbert is desperate to avoid surgery on his knee injury.

The Everton right-back ruptured his medial ligaments in the penultimate game of last season at Arsenal and is now due to see a specialist - who will inform the player whether surgery is necessary.

But Hibbert, who made 35 appearances for the Blues last term, is understandably keen to avoid going under the knife.

The local-born defender exclusively told evertonTV: “I’m hoping for the specialist to say that I won’t need an operation, and I really want to just kick on from where I am now.

"It’s not like we’ve held back but we need to know the full extent of the injury before I can start training properly.

“When I did it it felt okay. It didn’t seem bad until the result of the scan, which made it ten times worse when I actually saw what I had done. I even said to them that it wasn’t that bad. I’ve had tweaks in my knees before and it didn’t feel anywhere near as bad as them."

Hibbo has been a regular at Finch Farm throughout the summer as he tries his best to keep up his levels of fitness despite injury.

“We didn’t realise at first how bad it was and then the specialist said it was bad – but it’s just one of those things," he declared.

"I ruptured my medial ligaments, so they’ve basically come completely off the bone at the top where the nerve endings are and so that’s why I wasn’t feeling much pain.

“At the moment I’m doing running, obviously not to the extent of what the other lads will be doing, but I’ll probably be able to join in with them.

"It’s more or less just straight line speeds at the moment and keeping steady to get my fitness up.” notas_de_prensa_archivo