Paul Pogba has left the Juventus pre-season tour of the United States and will visit a specialist in Italy tomorrow, where he is expected to have knee surgery, but Manchester United medics are blamed for not doing it earlier.
The midfielder sustained a lesion to the lateral meniscus in his right knee during a training session in Los Angeles last week.
He left the United States today and flew back to Italy, where he is set to have a specialist orthopaedic consultation.
Multiple sources are confident surgery will be required, keeping Pogba out for at least a month, most likely two.
However, reports also emerged that Juventus medical staff are pointing towards Manchester United for their failure to deal with the issue earlier.
Pogba barely played over the last few months of his career at Old Trafford due to recurring muscular issues in his right leg.
That is also the leg that sustained the meniscus injury, with claims in Calciomercato.com and La Gazzetta dello Sport that these have all been caused by constant tension within the knee.
Because that basic issue was not addressed – which is why he is now seeing an orthopaedic specialist to focus on balance, strain on one knee and alignment – the damage accumulated until this lesion.
If surgery had been done earlier, it might’ve prevented the months of on-going injuries.