Frenkie de Jong breaks the silence on his serious (and controversial) injury

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Frenkie de Jong, for the moment, will not go to the operating room, even though the worst forecasts about his injury are confirmed. Barça has communicated that the tests carried out on the Dutch footballer have determined that he suffers from a tear of the internal lateral ligament of the right knee. It has been agreed that the player will continue under medical treatment and monitoring, pending his evolution in the coming weeks. In other words, De Jong prefers, for the moment, to avoid the operating room. In this way, and according to what this newspaper has been able to learn, the four months of absence that the first examinations depicted are confirmed when, despite having vacation permission, the footballer traveled to Barcelona to undergo tests at Sant Joan Despí to determine the extent of his injury.