The Paris St Germain player, who joined the club from Barcelona in August, had an operation on his foot after being injured in a French league game against Olympique de Marseille on February 25.
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The Brazil international recently emerged as a surprise target for Los Blancos, who are supposedly prepared to match the £198 million figure paid by PSG to sign him from Barcelona less than a year ago.
The reigning European champions entered the match with a 3-1 advantage from the first leg at the Bernabeu, and finished the job in the French capital to march into the last eight
A late collapse saw PSG lose 3-1 in Madrid last month in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie
The world’s most expensive footballer was operated on in Belo Horizonte by the Brazil national team doctor to repair the fractured metatarsal and sprained ankle he suffered in last weekend’s French Ligue 1 match against Olympique de Marseille
The worse than previously announced prognosis came as the Paris Saint-Germain striker, 26, arrived in Rio de Janeiro on an Air France flight from Paris for Saturday’s operation
“After tests, and with the player’s agreement, it has been decided that surgery is the best option,” PSG said in a statement
There are even fears that the talented Brazilian attacker will have a race against time to be ready for the World Cup in Russia in June
The 26-year-old was on his own when he innocuously rolled his ankle and flopped to the ground in pain
PSG’s first sight of the Real Madrid goal arrived in the seventh minute when Yuri Berchiche drove into the penalty box, but the left-back’s effort was always drifting wide of the post
Former FC Barcelona player, Neymar, PSG’s 222 million euro ($263 million) world record signing, will line up against Madrid on the left, but right back Carvajal is suspended for the game.
Sanchez joined United from Premier League rivals Arsenal last month in a deal that saw Henrikh Mkhitaryan go the other way and has made an immediate impact on and off the pitch, scoring on his home debut and setting a new record for shirt sales
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have dominated football’s most prestigious individual award over the past decade, winning five apiece and establishing themselves as two of the sport’s all-time greatest players in the process
The Brazilian striker fired home with a superb free kick after Yuri Berchiche had opened the scoring on the stroke of halftime
But those individual deals were eclipsed by Brazilian forward Neymar’s move from FC Barcelona to Paris St Germain in a world-record transfer worth 222 million euros (£195.4 million)
The 25-year old player has described his £145 million move a “dream come true”
But Perez has now suggested that the only way for the Brazilian to break the duo’s stranglehold on the prize — which has extended to a decade — would be to join Real.
The superstar is now level with Barcelona’s Messi on five Ballon d’Ors following a 2016-17 season in which he won the Champions League and La Liga double with Real Madrid
The Selecao will slug it out with Serbia, Costa Rica and Switzerland in Group E of the global showpiece as they aim to erase memories of their 2014 outing that ended awfully.
But it was a frustrating night in the principality for the world’s most expensive teenager, as Kylian Mbappe missed a raft of chances on his return to the club who will bank 180 million euros ($214.8 million) when his switch to PSG becomes permanent at the end of the season