Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong remains on the sidelines due to an ankle injury picked up all the way back in April.
The Dutch star is eager to avoid surgery and there’s hope that he could return to training this week to try and test out how he’s feeling.
Yet there’s still big doubts over De Jong’s fitness, with Dutch coach Ronald Koeman saying recently that it’s a “worrying situation” after three “nasty” injuries to the same area.
Barcelona are starting to think that surgery is the “only option” to fix De Jong’s current injury, but the midfielder has a different opinion, according to Diari Ara.