Bakis, 5 minutes of exercise and… conclusion

For 5 minutes, the first unique training session this Wednesday, preceded by an unusual conversation from coach Julio Velasquez in the dressing room of the Real Zaragoza team, The news was the return of center forward Sinan Bakis group exercises, almost 4 months later to begin to notice symptoms of the serious knee injury he suffered and he has been sidelined since early October.

But the figure of Bakis, the German-Turkish striker signed in the summer as the star of Juan Carlos Cordero’s project in search of promotion to the First Division, has disappeared faster than it costs to boil an egg. At 5 minutes of the preliminary stage of work composition, classic warm-up schemes at a low pace, Bakis left the group He moved to a distant position from which Julio Velazquez was observing the task with a sad face, and after a 40-second exchange, it ended with a hug between them: He returned to the booth with a serious expression on his face.

Bakis checked the condition of his knee

for the first time in the presence of journalists, in the quarter of an hour that the press is allowed to attend training every day. And he didn’t like how he felt. During his very short meeting with Velasquez before leaving the field, he gesticulated with his affected right limb, thereby confirming the explanations he had given to the coach.

So, the “Bakis effect” suddenly and unexpectedly evaporated this Wednesday. The news is no longer that Bakis returned to the group, but that he quickly left it shortly after his reappearance. since it stopped working with the others on November 3rd.

The forward, who transferred from Andorra in July, was given a very brief diagnosis by the club: “meniscopathy”. No further details. And it was said that they bet on “conservative treatment” waiting for his evolution to avoid surgery. The time for making a medical decision about the use of a method of prevention and rehabilitation without surgical intervention is approaching the end. by common sense.

The club announced on its website this fleeting return of Bakys to training this Wednesday. “according to the established plan”

and that at the end of the morning he accomplished “Exercises with the ball and strikes at the end of training together with Germán Valera and Carlos Nieto with very good feelings, although without resistance.