Dejan Kulusevski injury update: Tottenham waiting for pain in knee to subside
Alasdair Gold has provided an update on Dejan Kulusevski’s rehabilitation and when Rodrigo Bentancur is expected to return for Tottenham.
Tottenham’s injury crisis has eased off a bit as they embark on the final stretch of the season.
However, Spurs have learned that they will be without Guglielmo Vicario for a month, with the Italian goalkeeper set to have a minor surgery on his hernia next week following Sunday’s clash against Nottingham Forest.
Things are also not looking rosy for a midfielder, who has been sidelined with an injury since May of last year.
Alasdair Gold explains confusion over Dejan Kulusevski’s expected return date for Tottenham
Kulusevski has not kicked a ball yet this season, and it appears that the 25-year-old may not be as close to returning as it may have appeared.
A couple of days ago, Sweden boss Graham Potter revealed that the Tottenham man is not progressing as quickly as they had hoped.
Gold has now explained that it is a case of waiting until Kulusevski does not feel any pain in his knees, which makes it hard to put a timeline on the former Juventus star’s return.
The journalist on his YouTube channel: “The moment Kulusevski doesn’t feel pain in his knee is the moment that everything can start moving forward. And I’m guessing they will be so reluctant to push him to cause any further issues in what was such a complicated injury.
“It’s not like any of the other injuries that you can kind of easily put a prognosis on a return date and everything that we normally see in football. It is so different, and yeah, unfortunately, it’s just one of those where we’ll see when he comes back, and there’s no kind of way we can really estimate it. It’s just going to be a sudden thing.”
Gold reveals when Rodrigo Bentancur will return for Spurs
Speaking on Friday, Igor Tudor revealed that Rodrigo Bentancur is one of several Spurs players who are edging close to a return.
Gold has now revealed that Uruguayan has begun working on football-specific moments and predicted that we will see him lining up for Spurs towards the end of April.
He said about the 28-year-old: “He’s already returned to field-based work and they’re reintroducing football-specific movements. under the current timeline he should technically be ready by the end of March, but not returning to competitive matches. That’s more realistically towards the end of April. I think we were always told April, so that kind of makes sense.”
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