Vitolo’s misfortune, the eternally injured

Muscular, knee, inguinal or ankle, injury reports and sick leave Victor Machin ‘Vitolo’, Atlético de Madrid striker who is on loan this season in Las Palmas, they follow one another season after season. Last year, in which he was on loan at Getafe, he only played 216 minutes and the current one has ended prematurely for the canary because a few days ago he underwent “a complete reconstruction of the anterior cruciate plasty of his knee right”, as detailed by the group from Gran Canaria.

Unlike the secrecy imposed on other clubs, the yellow team’s medical services announced a period of eight to ten month leaveso the attacker will not reappear until at least March 2024. A stick for a player who has only enjoyed 109 minutes in the current Second League, who will turn 34 in November and who has signed a contract with the Metropolitan until 2024.

He Atletico Madrid paid Sevilla in the summer of 2017 for Vitolo’s termination clause (35 million euros), but a UEFA sanction prevented him from making his debut as a mattress player until January 2018. A signing with very low productivity despite signing for around ten million Gross annual.

In his three and a half seasons as a rojiblanco, he only started 38 of the 242 games in which he was called up by Simeone. The 177 days that he was injured forced him to miss 21 games with Madrid, according to @StatsAtletico. The change of scenery in Getafe, last year, and in Las Palmas in the current one has not managed to keep him away from the infirmary.

On loan until the end of this campaign in Las Palmas, Vitolo He has only played eight games with the yellows, all coming off the bench, in which he has not made his debut as a scorer. I am right that he also failed to find in the seven games in which he defended the Getafe shirt.