Oliver Bierhoff, the technical director of the German Football Association, has blasted Real Madrid for not realising how serious Sami Khedira’s knee injury was.
The 27-year-old midfielder faces up to eight weeks out with a thigh problem, and there has been some dispute between club and country as to when that injury was picked up exactly.
It is a blow for the World Cup winner, who spent much of last season on the sidelines with a serious knee injury picked up on international duty. He made is comeback for Los Blancos in time to help his side with the Champions League before going on to help Germany lift the World Cup in Brazil.
Speaking to German newspaper Bild, Bierhoff said the medical team at the Santiago Bernabeu didn’t take Khedira’s injury seriously enough and sent him away on international duty.
“The player already had problem when he travelled to Germany,” the 46-year-old former striker stated.
And his continued to criticise the 10-time European Cup winners, saying: “And what’s more, he had already been examined by doctors in Madrid. They didn’t consider it to be a serious injury. After that, Khedira decided to consult a reliable doctor here [and he] diagnosed a muscle tear.”
