How long will Arkadiusz Milik be out? It is a question to ask when yesterday the arthroscopic meniscal suture was announced, an operation to solve the problem that the Pole himself had been having since June, after an injury with the national team. He was supposed to return first at the end of August, then in mid-September after the break, and finally at the beginning of October. Instead the situation was not improving and for this reason the idea was to put an end to the issue definitively.
Recovery will depend a lot on Milik’s own abilities. Because you can start from a minimum of 30 days – also based on what was done during the operation – which can become 45, but also more than two months. So Thiago Motta has only Dusan Vlahovic in his squad as number nine, unless he can consider someone from the Next Gen (Mancini?) as already eligible for recruitment as was done with Savona and Mbangula. What is certain is that the role is decidedly delicate and therefore could lead to a new intervention on the market. Also because in the match against Leipzig there was an injury to Nico Gonzalez, the possible replacement in the event of Vlahovic’s absence, excluding Weah who has already played both as a second striker and as a pure striker.
Among the free agents there are only two over thirty, however accustomed to certain levels such as Ben Yedder, ex Monaco and Sevilla, but also Eric Choupo Moting, ex Paris Saint Germain and Bayern Munich.