Everton manager Rafa Benitez has offered an update on James Rodriguez’s situation and confirmed that the Colombian is training “normally” with his team-mates but insists that it’s difficult to assess whether the player is ready to return to first team duties.
2014 World Cup Golden Boot winner James was brought to Goodison Park from Real Madrid last season by Carlo Ancelotti – the third time that the Italian had signed him throughout his career – but is yet to figure so far under the new Blues boss.
Benitez said: “He’s training. These kind of weeks when you play a game and you have a day off in between, it’s not easy to see much from the first training session and we will see tomorrow in another training session.
“He’s training normally with the team.”
The Everton manager reiterated that there has been no change over Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s condition.
The England international has sustained a quadriceps injury to add to the broken toe he was nursing and Benitez added: “It’s what I said after the game. We have to wait some weeks, we don’t know exactly how many but he will not be available for two or three weeks.”
