No rush with Ansu Fati

At FC Barcelona they have a very clear roadmap with Ansu Fati: they remain firm that there will be no time cuts, nor ‘miracles’ in his recoverythey absolutely rule out that he will arrive at the Real Madrid match at the Bernabéu on March 20, “there are no deadlines nor will there be any in the medium term”, they assure AS from the locker room, recalling that the ten weeks of sick leave are maintained, to which two or three more weeks of training with the group will have to be added to finish receiving discharge, for which they underline that in the best of cases, the challenge is that it can be available “in the final stretch of the season to play the last games”.

Thus, although it is true that the news that is coming in of his recovery in Madrid under the supervision of his trusted physiotherapist, Joaquín Juan Sandá, is being very positive, it is also true that the club warned the striker that choosing the conservative therapy did not ensure a return sooner than with surgical treatment: the operating room was 3 months, but it ensured a quick rehabilitation and without relapses, while not having surgery, it would be 10 weeks off plus two or three more to pick up the pace and prevent relapse.

So, as things stand, the forecasts point to the end of April, but always bearing in mind that his case will be handled at the club with the utmost caution: we are talking about a muscle injury in which he has already had two relapses. And it is that from the medical services they assure that the challenge is not fixed in this seasonbut start the next one in the same conditions as their peers.

It must be remembered that Fati was injured again in the hamstrings of his left leg on January 20 in the Cup match against Athletic in San Mamés: The player was already injured two months earlier in Vigo against Celta. He returned against Real Madrid in the Super Cup, playing 55 minutes, but eight days later he relapsed when he had barely played fifteen minutes in the Cup.

With similar antecedents, Barcelona has proposed to close the doors to a new relapse, which would force him to go directly to the operating room and spend at least three more months off. Hence, to speak of deadlines or hasty returns, such as against Madrid at the Bernabéu on March 20 or Seville at the Camp Nou on April 3, are assumed in the club as “unreal information”. The reality, and the only one that the club continues to value, is that it will not be forced, nor will deadlines be cut: if it ends up playing a few games in the final stretch of the season it would be considered “a complete success”.