M. Fernandes on Sporting’s medical department: it worries me | OneFootball

Ibrahima Ba was officially announced as a Sporting signing for the 2026/27 season, but he will still need to complete around four weeks of recovery before he can work without limitations. Mariana Fernandes is questioning the work of the Club’s medical department.

"The Sporting Medical Department being comfortable with anything is something that worries me a little, because over the last two seasons they were comfortable with many things, and we saw what happened," she began by saying on SIC Notícias.

Despite this view, the commentator wants to believe in the competence of Sporting’s staff. "I’m obviously joking, and I’m not doubting the professionalism of the people who are part of the Department and the performance structure. Sporting believes that Ibrahima will be, in the positive and upward course of his recovery, ready to play in a month," she said.

Mariana Fernandes has doubts about when the centre-back will be available to take the field. "My question is, what does it mean to be ready to play? In other words, someone who undergoes surgery in such a sensitive area as the knee meniscus at the end of May, goes through this recovery, arrives at a new club with another month of recovery still to complete — what does it mean to be ready to play?"

In conclusion, the journalist recalled the cases of St. Juste and Ioannidis. "The big doubt is whether Sporting signed another Jeremiah St. Juste, or signed another Fotis Ioannidis, or whether they actually signed a player who had a knee problem, underwent surgery, will recover, and will be ready," she concluded.

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