Doubt you’ll see him start a match again this season.
Broke mine playing volleyball 20+ years ago. The doctor didn’t set the bone properly the 1st time and had to break and reset the second time. Screws and plate came out a year later. Isak needs much better luck than me! Let’s hope it was a clean break.
The fortunate part is not tendon related. Muscle atrophy should not be an issue as he will start working on the leg again. I think at that time, I was told that it will take 6 to 8 weeks for the bone to set firmly again.
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This is truly sickening, and its not the first time we have seen it. Eduardo, Elliot.
If the FA think they can keep leaving this in ‘on the battlefield’ then its a chronic failing of them to not address this.
There needs to be some rule brought in whereby if a player ends another players career, through recklessness like this, then their career will also be brought to an end, and damages payable. That should get defenders to back off from these scissor tackles or whatever. Plainly here, Isak could have not played again. He might as well have been on the front in Ukraine coming away with an ‘injury’ like that, which really.was reckless ‘harm’.
They didn’t know right away.
Fibula is a weird bone and is technically non weight bearing which is why it can be relatively pain free to walk around even with a broken one, if that is all that is wrong. So the reporting not mentioning anything else and the fact he did walk off suggests that is probably the case and if so it’s about as good as we could have hoped . The concern with these are the associated ankle issues, like Harvey had, but we’d have to have waited a few days to assess that
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Oh it hurt like hell!
Edit: Actually, I thought I twisted my ankle at that time and it hurt the same way as badly twisted ankle…but the ER doctor took a look, seeing that my ankle area swollen up like a balloon, he said, “Nope, not twisted ankle, it’s broken leg.”
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Eduardo’s was truly horrible, I remember watching that game live on TV in Croatia. One where it was clear very quickly what happened.
Eduardo had a compound fracture, where the bone was sticking out of his leg, and his foot was hanging off. It was a horrific injury and thankfully very different to this one
Stuff has moved on a fair bit, my fractured ankle was 6 months.
I broke my fibula in 2 places. No external injury. Not much pain, was able to walk for short distances and had a snack while waiting for the medical personnel to pick me up.
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Makes me realised that my pain threshold/tolerance is pretty shit. 
Jamal Musiala had a similar injury and he was out for 5 months in total..
I guess we will only know by March 2026!
I had a broken ankle and very little swelling and a severe ankle sprain, massive swelling and far more painful!
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Yeah, we’d have been royally fucked were it an ACL. Can’t see where we’d replace his ability to stand around looking unfit and uninterested.
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To be fair it was also Isak’s press which helped cause the wayward pass out that led to his goal.
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Slot has said a couple of months.
I don’t get why people find high pain tolerance something to brag about. It’s something you’re born with, not something you train up to increase the threshold of.
People don’t go about deliberately spraining their own joints/breaking their own bones to condition their pain tolerance.
You’re fine how you are @CanuckoLFC
I’m sure you are happy with the sly dig you got in there, but my point was that missing two preseasons in a row would be fairly catastrophic for him, and ironically would only mean more chance of him looking unfit.
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funnily enough, he didnt look unfit or uninterested when he ran onto the through ball and scored his goal!
A common error that people make in my native language is saying “a couple” instead of “a few” when describing quantity of something. I truly hope Slot is not making the same error here and that “a couple” means “two”, which would be great. In that case, Isak would hopefully be ready to help us to either fend off relegation or win Champions League.
That was one of the first things that popped up when I initially suspected that his injury might be an ACL. Thankfully, it wasn’t but this injury is still enough to rob him of this season (which I expected anyway a couple of months back).
The Telegraph had something of a hatchet piece on his general fitness and injury issues in 2024/25, though, which I won’t be linking here. I really hope that those fitness issues are overstated and that the next six to eight months would help resolve them.
It is a bit strange. BBC headline says 2 months, but the actual article says ’ a couple’
So not really sure what to believe.