Upon seeing Gavi limp off what seemed like a serious knee injury in Spain’s recent Euro qualifier against Georgia, the initial sensations were that of shock and bitterness, but there was also an element of resignation felt amongst all Barca fans.
One of the club’s most important midfielders is out for the season with an ACL tear, likely to miss the beginning of next season, and realistically will take significant time after that to find the form that he had reached in the past few months. That he will even get back to his former self is also by no means a given, as Ansu Fati has proven in the past couple of years.