Lukaku misses Dubai trip due to calf injury
Romelu Lukaku stayed behind to receive treatment on a calf problem as Everton jetted off to Dubai on Monday.
The striker is to visit a doctor in Belgium this week, but is expected to be fit for the club’s next Premier League match on February 25.
The club announced on Tuesday morning that the 23-year-old Belgium forward did not travel with his team-mates to their training camp in Dubai, but insisted the issue was “not serious” and said he would be available for the visit of Sunderland next week.
✈️ | The lads have boarded a morning flight to Dubai for a week-long warm weather training camp. ☀️ pic.twitter.com/qYKAxQp0y8
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Lukaku and Yannick Bolasie, who is recovering from a long-term knee injury, were the only senior members of Ronald Koeman’s squad not to make the trip to the United Arab Emirates.