Samuel Umtiti will not play another LaLiga game this season. The French center has decided to start a conservative treatment to mitigate the discomfort that continues to drag on his left knee, due to chronic joint degeneration. An injury that the club tried to solve through the operating room, but that due to the insistent refusal of the player, has only served to put specific patches on his battered knee.
The club issued a statement to briefly report that player istarted “conservative treatment” on his left knee, but without specifying duration or severity. As well at AS we can confirm that the minimum time will be around five weeks, saying goodbye to LaLiga and almost certainly also the Champions League.
And is that Umtiti has had to brake again because the pain in his knee prevented him from exercising normally. The planned plan is that in the next six weeks he will carry out conservative therapeutic treatment, through stem cells, in order to regenerate the knee. However, nothing guarantees that these pains will reappear in the future.
The only viable situation is to go through the operating room and this has been pointed out to the French central, who continues to stubbornly dodge the operating room. In fact, Umtiti, before making this decision to follow a conservative method again, consulted with the doctors at the Aspetar center in Doha. And is that his initial intention was to march to Qatar to recover there.
Obviously, the situation of Umtiti is headed for a dead end: the only option to solve his problem is the operating room, but the player refuses to undergo surgery.
Right now, Umtiti has made it a challenge to arrive for the second leg of the Champions League against Naples, although more than one in the club is convinced that the Frenchman's season has ended.