They jump the alarms in the FC Barcelona! In addition to the uncertainty that surrounds his future, the combined Barcelona will have to confront the regrettable drop of the Uruguayan defender Ronald Araújo. The Catalan club has used his diverse channels of communication to reveal the gravity of the injury suffered by the '4' during the commitment of quarter-finals of the Glass America 2024 between Uruguay and Brazil. Until the day of today, this physical mishap was a true incógnita.
The communiqué issued by the combined culé says the following: "The proofs made in the Sportive City Joan Gamper have showed that the player of the first team Ronald Araujo suffers an injury in the sinew of the isquiotibial of the right thigh. In the next days will subject to surgical treatment to charge of the doctor Lasse Lempainen, under the supervision of the medical services of the Club, in Turku (Finland). When finalising the intervention will facilitate a new splits medical".
In a principle, as we comment in FCBN, everything indicated that the time of recovery of the defender would be of around a month and half or two months, during which would be absent of the terrains of game. Nevertheless, the native de Rivera, the one who arrived to the City Condal this Monday, subjected to medical proofs in the Ciutat Esportiva of Sant Joan Despí to determine the real gravity of his muscular injury in the right thigh. When being this physical mishap much more severe of the expected, requiring even of a surgical intervention to correct it, the time of recovery will be much more extensive of the expected, extending very probably by a period of four months.
The injury of Ronald Araújo trastoca varied of the plans of the FC Barcelona
Unfortunately, because of this situation, the Uruguayan will not be able to resort to a conservative treatment to cure entirely this ailment. Like result, will lose so much the pre-season of the club like the first months of the season 2024/25. This alters significantly the sportive planning and of market of the FC Barcelona in regard to the exjugador of the CA Boston River.
On the one hand, it is a 'hit' important to sportive level, since Hansi Flick will not be able to have that that expected that it was one of the 'leaders' in the defensive line, in spite of having an active of good level like Andreas Christensen available to cover his absence. Likewise, this could affect the destination of footballers like Eric García and Iñigo Martínez in the staff culé. In front of the drop of Araújo, the Barcelonan picture could consider not doing without García or look for the necessary means to inscribe to Martínez and keep the solidity of the Barcelona payroll in terms of depth in the saga.
On the other hand, this injury trastoca the plan of market of the FC Barcelona. It is not a secret that, because of the hermetismo of Ronald Araújo and his surroundings to the not answering to the supposed offer of renewal presented by the Catalan square does some time, considered attractive put to the player in the market during this window of signings of summer. However, after his physical mishap, this idea remains practically descartada, since negotiate a traspaso in these conditions does not seem to be profitable for the group blaugrana. Now, in case that it produce a negotiation, is likely that the clubs use the injury of Ronald like argument to his favour to obtain better conditions, which does not benefit in the absolute to the club culé.