Barcelona had a relatively injury-free season as far as it goes for a top team that competes on several fronts, but their players have seen two surprise operations at the back. On Friday, Barcelona confirmed an operation for Teenage Right-back Hector Fort.
The 18-year-old full-back had a curious season, after a promising breakout year under Xavi Hernandez. For a large part of the year, manager Hansi Flick seemed to feel that he was a bit green and gave him almost no playing time. In the last weeks of the season, however, Fort was thrown into some important games.
Barcelona has announced that Fort has undergone surgery on its nose, in an attempt to solve some breathing problems that hindered him during the season. It seems that it has to do with his septum. However, Fort will only be out of operation for a total of four weeks, as reported by Diario, because it should be back in action in time before the start of Barcelona's preseason mid -July.
Fort only played 21 times this season, a total of 710 minutes and only five starts. Three of them were publicly recognized as a result of the fact that Jules Kounde was punished for slowness. It is only 134 minutes more than the previous year, despite the entire season with the senior side.
That said, the word is that Fort has moved in Flick's estimates, and he will continue in the club next season. He will play a greater role next year, although it will no longer harm his case that Barcelona seems to have been taken away from the idea of ​​signing a full-back, as their plan was considered earlier in the year.