Thomas Vermaelen will operate the Tuesday in Finland

The central of the Barça will be operated next Tuesday in Finland by the doctor Sakari Orava of the injury of the muscle semitendinoso of the right leg and will be of drop between 4 and 5 months

Thomas Vermaelen already has taken the decision to operate of the recurrent problems that has the muscles isquiotibiales of the right leg. The central of the Barça will be operated next Tuesday in Finland by the doctor Sakari Orava, the most recognised doctor in the treatment of this type of injuries. As it has informed the Barcelona club in a communiqué, the operation comports an approximate drop of 4 or 5 supplementary months. By the hands of Orava have happened athlete like Haile Gebreselassie, Frank Fredericks, Marta Domínguez or Yago Lamela and footballers like Pep Guardiola, Marco go Suffice, Aitor Karanka, Juan Eduardo Esnáider or Didier Deschamps.

Now it is the turn of Vermaelen, an especially abused player by the injuries and that the Barça fichó of the Arsenal the past summer, in return of 10 million fixed euros more 8,5 in variables. The Belgian head office, that according to words of Andoni Zubizarreta had to be a footballer of "immediate performance", although it has not contested any official party from his signing and could debut with the Barça to finals of March if they fulfil the planned terms of recovery.