{"id":336443,"date":"2026-03-09T05:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336443\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:43:13","slug":"evan-fergusons-roma-loan-ends-as-ireland-striker-to-undergo-ankle-surgery-on-monday-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336443\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson\u2019s Roma loan ends as Ireland striker to undergo ankle surgery on Monday \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evan Ferguson\u2019s<\/a> loan period at Roma has ended as the 21-year-old has returned to England to undergo ankle surgery on Monday. It will be his second procedure in a year, having had four separate ankle injuries since joining the Italian side last summer. <\/p>\n

Ferguson is definitely out of the Republic of Ireland\u2019s<\/a> World Cup playoff against the Czech Republic on March 26th with comments by Roma manager Gian Piero Gasperini putting his availability for this summer\u2019s tournament in doubt should Ireland qualify. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is now clear that he will finish the season 1773034990 and will have surgery on his ankle,\u201d said Gasperini. \u201cHe won\u2019t have time to recover before the end of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had to deal with extreme injury cases this season, starting with Ferguson. He came here a year after an operation and had some big initial difficulties after not playing many games last season. He had an excellent spell around December time, I think, then he had this relapse, but it was already a very difficult situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ferguson scored five goals in 22 appearances for Roma before returning to Brighton for treatment. <\/p>\n

\"\"Ireland beat a dogged Wales side under the lights at the Aviva<\/p>\n

Ireland manager Heimir Hallgr\u00edmsson must now plan without several key players against the Czechs in Prague and potentially the winners of Denmark versus North Macedonia in Dublin on March 31st to feature at the World Cup. <\/p>\n

Ferguson, Josh Cullen (ACL), Mikey Johnston and suspended duo Liam Scales and Festy Ebosele are definitely out, while there are also doubts around the fitness of S\u00e9amus Coleman, Robbie Brady, Chiedozie Ogbene and Adam Idah. <\/p>\n

Hallgr\u00edmsson took time to visit Sammie Szmodics at Derby County training last week while there is a slight chance that Will Smallbone can return from a serious hamstring injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson\u2019s loan period at Roma has ended as the 21-year-old has returned to England to undergo ankle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7523,4700,61,60,50019,43,1842,48229,4018],"class_list":["post-336443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-evan-ferguson","tag-heimir-hallgrimsson","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-josh-cullen","tag-news","tag-republic-of-ireland-mnt","tag-seamus-coleman","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}