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 have 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 fact that Sporting’s Medical Department is comfortable with anything worries me a little, because over the last two seasons it has been comfortable with many things, and we’ve seen what happened”, she began by saying on SIC Notícias.

Despite this opinion, the commentator wants to believe in the competence of Sporting’s work. “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 to the pitch. “My question is, what does it mean to be ready to play? In other words, someone who has surgery in such a sensitive area as the knee meniscus at the end of May, who goes through this recovery, who arrives at a new club with another month of recovery still to do—what does it mean to be ready to play?” she asked.

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

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