Hi this is Neil from the Big Inside View. You're about to listen to Graham Hunter talking about how to break a 97 million pound footballer Barcelona style.

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well I think we should start with what's happening in Barcelona we'll get to the

matching good time but first of all can you tell me the, well let's not presume that everybody knows exactly what's going on. Can you tell us the state of Dembelly's hamstring?

I just look this up here point.

As we speak, his plane has landed in Finland, that's where he's going to be operated upon.

And in there, I mean there are various studies about one had a hamstring injury is a head of knee injuries the number one problem for footballers, how to reduce it.

There is actually a Premier Club joint study with

you April, which has been running for years and years now

whereby all the clubs, all the physios, all the doctors, all the surgeons share info about how to try and avoid this.

And genuinely, both knee injuries and hamstring injuries are on the decline, which makes the

hellish problem still more rare because there's a tendon practically severed

in the part that links hamstringstrings to me that's why it's going to be in Brussels

on medical judgment between three and a half and four months before he's ready to play

again all of which depends on the

successful surgery, the successive recuperation and rehabilitation. The reason he's

going to Finland is because he's going to be operated by the guy who eventually helped resurrect

Pequarieola's career. So we're talking 20 years ago, this guy has been an expert all

that time and that's why Demble is currently in Finland.

But Dembele is a little tragedy I suppose.

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