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Coutinho travels to Brazil to treat his injured knee

  • The Brazilian is looking for another specialist for his injury to the external meniscus of his left knee

  • The player, who had been in Doha, goes to his country to “undergo a medical evaluation”

  • He was injured on December 29 against Eibar and continues without knowing when he will reappear

Philippe Coutinho is desperate. There is no solution to the injury to his left knee that he suffered on December 29 at the Camp Nou against Eibar. The player, who was intervened by doctor Joan Carles Monllau, is now out for three months and does not know when he will reappear. For this reason, as Barça has reported in a brief medical statement, he travels to Brazil to put himself in the hands of a specialist from his country.

Barcelona-Doha-Brazil. Not for the former Liverpool player to go through various medical consultations in search of finding the treatment for “that injury to the external meniscus of the right knee”, which has him on leave.

Recovery problems

It was operated first in Barcelona. But the recovery, set at around three and a half months, has not gone as planned. Hence, the Brazilian went to Qatar to be explored by the Belgian doctor. Pieter d’Hoogue, who operates in Doha, who would have advised him to have a cyst removed as the cause of synovial fluid leaks.

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But he was not at all satisfied with this latest exploration, the 28-year-old footballer, the most expensive signing in the history of the Barça club, who paid 120 million plus 40 in variables, flies to Brazil to put himself in the hands of another specialist, who will do “a medical evaluation”, in addition to “a treatment” of the injury in the external meniscus of the left knee.

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