This gathering is definitely causing damage within the France Espoirs team. After Ethan Mbappé and Senny Mayulu, it was Ewen Jaouen who had to leave his partners before the match against Luxembourg last Saturday. Replaced in the selection by Issiaka Touré, the Newcastle goalkeeper complained of a hamstring problem during training and returned to England after an initial MRI. Nothing too serious, only in appearance. The latest images revealed a much larger lesion than expected.
According to information from The Chroniclethe 20-year-old goalkeeper has no choice but to undergo surgery. He will have to be absent for several weeks at least, even if no length of unavailability has yet been communicated, neither by the English media, nor by his club. In any case, this is a new hard blow for someone who is already suffering his second injury since signing this summer with the Toons for €28.5 million from Reims. He became the most expensive player recruited in Ligue 2.
Injured for several weeks
The challenge was great to find a place and his health problems did not benefit him. Since the start of the season, he has only played one Carabao Cup match, a 3-2 success against West Bromwich Albion at the end of August. Jaouen signed until 2030 without the promise of being number one, and for good reason. A few weeks after his signing, and while Matthias Jaissle was taking over from Eddie Howe, Newcastle signed Lukas Hornicek (24 years old), Czech international (2 caps), for €30 million from Braga and offered him the starting place.
To make the French understudy’s situation worse, an ankle injury kept him away from the field for the entire month of September, causing him to miss the second League Cup match, a victory against Millwall this time where he should have had his chance. In his absence, Nick Pope took the opportunity to return in the odor of holiness and take his place on the bench. The elements are not working in favor of the international hopeful tricolor. The latter will once again be forfeited for future matches, such as the one against Everton in the 4th round of the League Cup.
