That’s really not good.
Not if you are a Forest fan, living in the here and now.
They sit 17th, one spot and 5 points above the drop zone.
But if he's back by March (even April), that gives him time to get match fit before the World Cup. Though yeah he'd have to be unlikely to travel all the way to NZ for those March games.
I'm putting some faith in AI.
For a professional football player, the typical recovery period and return to play after an arthroscopic cartilage "tidy up" (debridement/partial meniscectomy) is approximately 4 to 8 weeks.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360919046/all-whites-captain-chris-wood-battling-make-fifa-world-cup-after-christmas-surgery
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