The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Boa will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
125 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Boa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ignacio Gamarra provided it, and the 8.10 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Ignacio Gamarra has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Rodriguinho was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Waldson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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SquadAdalberto is still paying for one afternoon at Boa
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Boa will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Boa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Breno Lopes is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Matheus Destro is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.