Mateta, the backstory on Milan: «I have the medical visit and… Everything stops»

The transfer of Jean-Philippe Mateta to Milan had seemed possible, but the operation definitively stopped during the medical visits. The Crystal Palace striker, interviewed by Canal+, told what happened in those days and how the exams carried out with the Rossoneri club highlighted a more serious situation in the knee than he had been previously told.

Mateta and the failed transfer to Milan: the striker's story

WORDS - «I have the medical visit and… Everything stops. My knee injury was more serious than I was told, actually. At that moment, when they told me, many things passed through my head. I absolutely do not regret anything, because if I had not done that medical visit, I would have continued to drag this knee problem... Until when? Luckily I had that medical visit and I knew exactly what it was about».

The striker's words explain the reason why the deal with Milan did not go through. The medical visit allowed to identify the problem with greater precision, avoiding that Mateta could continue to play without knowing his conditions thoroughly.