Piqué's decision: he wins the option of not undergoing surgery in full

Gerard Piqué has to make a decision in the coming days that could end up affecting his last years of professional career. The Catalan central defender, who met this morning for two hours with surgeon Ramon Cugat at the Ciutat Esportiva, heard from the specialist's mouth the pros and cons of undergoing surgery. Before consulting with the traumatologist, Piqué probed other specialists to ask for an opinion on his case: a tear of the internal lateral ligament and the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee.

Piqué's doubts were increased after the first consultations with various specialists, who openly recommended that he go under the knife, emphasizing the problems of recovering a crusader broken by the traditional route. However, the age of the player, in February he will turn 34, and The successful backgrounds of players like Rodrigo and Raúl, who came out of similar injuries well without undergoing surgery, are weighing heavily on Piqué's final decision.

Cugat himself has opened up the possibility of following the conservative method, as recommended by the club's medical services, although that will not prevent him from spending no less than four months off the pitch.. In the best of cases, Cugat has reminded him, he will return in the month of April 2021.

The new MRI that he underwent on Tuesday served to feed the hope of not going through the operating room when verifying that the rupture of the ligaments had been clean, since there was no fluid in the knee. This circumstance has opened the doors for him to try to solve his injury without surgery.

In any case, Piqué has not yet made a final decision, since Cugat himself reminded him that if he wants to have absolute peace of mind about how his knee will be, and with guarantees of complete stability, the best option is surgical treatment.

So the central is testing his own medicine. If two years ago his production company recorded the documentary ‘The decision’ on how Antoine Griezmann faced the debate of coming to Barcelona or not, now Piqué is living an internal debate of the same depth and significance in his career: whether to operate or not. Everything indicates that the final decision will be no.