Ricky1985 wrote:
jones wrote:
I meant the patella tendon, missed a word there in my earlier post. As you said the reports only said there was a setback without specifiying what kind of, either way the time it took him to come back is very worrying. Other players I can think of with a broken patella came back after 3-4 months.
Yeah, it took him a full 6 months to come back after that unspecified August setback - though most experts seem to suggest 6-9 months is the standard recovery time from a fractured kneecap - so 10 months total isn't that odd.
I'm not even quite sure what the implications would be exactly if he did also rupture his patella tendon? Not a super common injury in footballers as far as I know.
Former Frankfurt midfielder Flum had his kneecap basically destroyed during training, one of the most gruesome injuries I've ever seen. Looked way worse than Neto there was literally a hole in place of the patella. He was airlifted to a hospital and was back playing in under six months. Luca Pellegrini broke his kneecap playing for Roma and was back in under four months. Ten months is most definitely odd.
Patella tendonitis is a pretty common injury in football I think, just doesn't get reported that specifically. Diego Costa suffered from it for years during his prime. With Neto there was no ligament damage reported and a broken bone unless it's complicated or theres an inflammation usually doesn't take that long to heal.
If it's not a ligament nor a bone a tendon injury is not unlikely and they're very annoying because they never heal fully, speedy would be able to tell more about it but he's gone sadly.
