Alexandre Pato believes that he has proven that his injury struggles at Milan were not through his own doing, but how the club handled him.
The striker endured a difficult spell in Serie A with the Rossoneri, struggling to live up to expectation through a series of muscle-related injuries.
Alexandre Pato believes that he has proven that his injury struggles at Milan were not through his own doing, but how the club handled him.
The striker endured a difficult spell in Serie A with the Rossoneri, struggling to live up to expectation through a series of muscle-related injuries.
“The billing I had until the period in which I played in Europe was not exaggerated and I think I came through.
“Unfortunately I had a break because it was a period in which I got injured and it was not good, it was almost two years without a sequence of games,” Pato has reflected to Estadao.
“It was also why I returned to Brazil. I wanted to return to playing regularly without hurting myself, whilst I believe that when I have had a sequence, I have corresponded [with expectation].
“When I started to get injured, I travelled everywhere and did what I had to do, but the period of transition to the field was not done well, the work I did here in Brazil could have been done there.
“Some injuries were more the result of the effort in trying to come back, but I did not have the same injury twice nor that were serious, even as the Italian media often said that I was injured.
“When I returned to Brazil within a week I was fine. Many people believed that the problem was me, but thankfully the tests have shown that the transition work was poorly done, it should have been done in a way that I could have continued playing.
“The return to Brazil? My first goal was to play, without injuring myself. The first year was as I had hoped and it was a year in which I did not get injured.”