Toffee break for Everton, as Tim Cahill 始める，決める for summer return

By Sportsmail Reporter
Updated: 14:33 BST, 23 May 2008

Tim Cahill is on course to be ready for pre-season training as he continues his 回復 fr om 外科.

The Everton midfielder, who 得点する／非難する／２０d seven 首相 League goals last season, is 支援する home in Australia 回復するing from an 操作／手術 to end his 執拗な metatarsal problems.

But Everton are 納得させるd he will be ready for training in July and fit to start the Barclays 首相 League season in August.

Fighting fit: Cahill (left) 戦う／戦いs with 刺激（する）s' Jermaine Jenas, and looks to return to 活動／戦闘 at Goodison this season

Cahill was out from 早期に March with a 再発 of his 傷害, and his absence was one of the 推論する／理由s Everton's season fell away as they failed to clinch a 最高の，を越す four 位置／汚点／見つけ出す or get beyond the last-16 of the UEFA Cup.

Cahill recently underwent 外科 in Australia, and is 回復するing 井戸／弁護士席 under the watchful 注目する，もくろむs of the Socceroos' 医療の team.

Everton's 長，率いる physio Mick Rathbone visited the midfielder recently and 宣言するd himself happy with the player's 進歩.

Rathbone said: "I went to Sydney last Monday and saw Tim and we had a 会合 with the specialists. We had some new X-rays done and I met with the Australian 医療の team who are looking after him for a couple of weeks.

"The 施設s are fantastic, and I was very impressed with the 外科医."

Cahill recently said that he was 確信して of 存在 支援する for the new season, and Rathbone agrees.

He 追加するd: "Things seem to be going very 井戸／弁護士席. We discussed the rehab and he gets another X-ray in three weeks, and we will re-評価する from there."

Another 傷害-疫病／悩ますd Everton player - young striker James Vaughan - also believes he is on the way to a 十分な 回復 and will be ready for pre-season training after more 膝 problems.

Vaughan also did not play after March, when he returned to the US for a 協議 with Dr Richard Steadman, the 外科医 who had carried our previous 操作／手術s on the 19 year-old.

Vaughan said: "The 膝 feels good. It is a slow rehab but everything is going to 計画（する） so far so I should be 支援する for next season.

"Hopefully I can join in pre-season training. By the start of that, I hope to be doing some jogging and running and by the end I may get in a few games."

Vaughan has also 表明するd his 失望 that 退役軍人 midfielder 物陰／風下 Carsley has left Everton and joined Birmingham.

Birmingham-born Vaughan said: "物陰／風下 was one of the big characters in the squad. Everyone loved him, and he will be 行方不明になるd by everyone."

He 追加するd: "He is a brilliant player and he seems to be getting better with age. There's no 推論する／理由 why he cannot keep going for a while.

"I hope Birmingham 勝利，勝つ 昇進／宣伝. I hope so for 物陰／風下 and for Birmingham, because they are a good team."