Villarreal are getting ready for the beginning of the 2025-26 season, which is able to see them return to the Champions League. However they’ve been dealt a significant harm blow solely three weeks earlier than the beginning of the brand new marketing campaign.
It has been a reasonably troublesome summer season up to now for Villarreal, who bought Alex Baena and Thierno Barry to Atletico Madrid and Everton respectively within the house of a few weeks. And issues have now obtained worse for the Yellow Submarine, with the information that they are going to be with out one in all their beginning defenders for the foreseeable future.
On Monday, Villarreal confirmed the information that Logan Costa had ruptured his ACL in the course of the 3-3 draw in opposition to FC Basel, which befell over the weekend.
“The medical exams that Logan Costa has undergone verify that the Villarreal defender has suffered an entire rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. The Cape Verdean was injured final Saturday, July 19, within the Submarine’s first pre-season match in opposition to FC Basel.
“The membership will quickly launch details about the surgical procedure that the participant will bear.”
Costa, who made 34 appearances in his first season at Villarreal after becoming a member of from Toulouse final summer season, is dealing with a prolonged lay-off, anticipated to be in extra of six months. He has possibilities to play in the course of the 2025-26 marketing campaign, though that can rely upon his restoration course of.
The place do Villarreal go from right here?
Happily, Villarreal have already signed a central defender this summer season, that being ex-Actual Madrid man Rafa Marin. Nevertheless, he was important earlier than this example with Costa, so it could be no shock to see one other centre-back focused for Marcelino Garcia Toral’s squad.
Villarreal will likely be with Costa each step of the best way in his restoration, however a call will have to be made on signing a brief substitute. Happily, cash is there to be spent, with €90m having been raised from the Baena and Barry gross sales.