Tottenham Hotspur forward Dejan Kulusevski in VoetbalPrimeur.nl translated from Dutch:

I spent the whole summer talking to other doctors about a third operation. That would have been a knee transplant. They would replace my knee with someone else’s. Then I said no. I thought: if I’m in pain while playing football, then I’ll just play with pain.

[…] They told me that nobody had ever come back after an operation like that. It was fifty-fifty. Then I said: no, I don’t want that.

[…] Zlatan and Perisic really wanted me to go there. That Serbian has been very important to me. He said: don’t think about other operations, this is what we’re going to do. He was so sure it would turn out well.

Always listen to your gut.