CRUCIATE INJURY RULES JOTA OUT UNTIL 2026

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nine months. It’s the cruciate, and it was worse than we'd hoped.

“He starts on his journey of recovery from that now. He’s very philosophical in his life and I had a long chat with him, looking at the plan, what the plan will be for him going forward and the different phases of what it will look like. He knows he’s going to get all the support.”

Jota hit the ground running in his second spell at Celts following his January switch from Rennes. But the 26-year-old has suffered a wretched couple of seasons after his £25m move to Saudi Arabia turned sour - and he had a difficult time in France.