Unhappy Triad For Koné

With­out the sea­son started Sevilla already bad news comes again. The biggest sign­ing in club’s his­tory will not be avail­able for the rest of the year as he will have to endure a severe knee injury. Arouna Kone’s career is now in jeop­ardy after suf­fer­ing a severe knee injury in a national team friendly against Guinea in Paris. After the tenth minute he suf­fered a torn ACL, MCL, and menis­cus dam­age– the infa­mous ¨unhappy triad¨. Ivory Coast were able to come out of the game with a pyrrhic 2–1 victory.

Sevilla brass is scram­bling to find a replace­ment with such short notice. They are also aware that to obtain a top of the line player, they will have to spend some money that they will most likely not have avail­able or will­ing to spend it. Not only that, they also have a lit­tle bit more than a week to get that done as the sum­mer trans­fer win­dow closes.

Kone was com­ing into this sea­son had lots to prove as Sevilla invested a great deal of money on him as they bought him from PSV Eind­hoven for a record trans­fer for the Span­ish side. He was not able to sat­isfy the expec­ta­tions that such a trans­ac­tion would place on him. He appeard in 24 matches and only scored one goal. So for Koné this year was one that would allow him to make amends with the Nervio­nense fans.

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