Juve, injured situation: when Pogba, Chiesa and Kaio Jorge return

The match against Bologna, with the returns of Szczesny, Rabiot and Locatelli after a month (plus day, minus day), together with the return from disqualification of Milik and Cuadrado, marks another step in the approach between “virtual Juve” and “la Real Juve “, to stick to the terms of the cheerful rhetoric, with the idea of ​​returning to having everyone available. The next step is that of long-term patients, who with the beginning of October enter the decisive month in which they are expected to return.

ALLEGRI SAYS

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“Not at the moment, there are no return times,” Allegri said in the pre-Bologna press conference. “The only thing I can say is that next week Chiesa will start touching the ball a little more and will begin to get closer to the team, but we will have to evaluate. At the moment Pogba hasn’t raced yet, when he starts you have to see: if things go well within two to three weeks he will be available, like Federico. Things are progressing well and this is the important thing, but a lot of water passes under the bridge from here to play ”.

POGBA

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After an initial attempt to recover through conservative therapy, Paul Pogba underwent a selective external arthroscopic meniscectomy on 5 September after having injured the meniscus of his right knee during his tour in the United States on July 23. The estimated recovery times of 40-60 days place the date of the possible return between mid-October and early November. He aims to see him again within three weeks, a timing compatible with that mentioned by Allegri: on October 21 there is Juve-Empoli, an eye on the date of 25 for the return of the Champions League with Benfica.

CHURCH

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The Champions League trip to Portugal is also more realistically in the crosshairs of Federico Chiesa, whose recent acceleration in recovery (or more correctly the absence of reasons for slowing down, which had slowed down a bit previously) could materialize even earlier the return to field of blue. In reality, the return to the playing field of the Continassa, if there are no hitches, is already expected for next week, to continue the work on the race, taste the field as well as the ball and then gradually join the group. The times are too tight to assume even just a call-up with Milan in seven days, it is more realistic to hazard a look at the derby with Toro the week after to see him even return to the bench and maybe return to touch the field the following week with the Empoli.

KAIO JORGE

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In the background, on the other hand, there is always Kaio Jorge. More peripheral in Juventus’ current affairs, but still the most attentive name of the Juve 2021 market after the Locatelli soap opera. The rupture of the patellar tendon of the right knee is on 23 February: operated the next day, the recovery times had been quantified by the club in “about eight months”. A timing that also placed the 20-year-old Brazilian striker’s return around the end of October, even if it makes little sense for him to force the times at the gates of the long stop for the World Cup. It is true that in the meantime the Under 23 team will continue to play, with whose jersey the February injury arrived: there could be a first phase of the running-in, with the prospect of leaving on loan in January to put minutes in the legs. Flamengo has already shown up to bring him back to his homeland, even if a closer destination would be preferable to make him familiar with our football as well.