Burnley defender Jordan Beyer has spoken about the gruesome details of a knee injury which has kept him out of action since December 2023.
Rheinische Post cover comments from the Burnley defender made during an appearance on the “Athletes Grind Code” podcast.
He’s yet to make an appearance for Burnley this season and missed the entirety of last year. He continues to recover from a knee injury which has baffled doctors and specialists alike.
Beyer’s last game for Burnley was a 17-minute appearance against Aston Villa all the way back at the end of December 2023. The injury started before then, though, with an original meniscus suffered suffered in October that year.
That injury initially kept him out for a month and three matches but developed into something worse. That lead to a 68-game absence for Burnley and 548 days out of action. He’s now working his way back from a hamstring injury which has also seen him miss five games and 69 days in total.
Burnley’s Beyer: “The pressure caused the bone to bleed”
Now Beyer has provided the gory details of the knee injury, and how he’s been fighting to get it sorted.
“It all started in October 2023 against Luton. That’s when I tore my inner meniscus. It’s not a big deal, it was a pretty simple operation: They cut off a small piece,” he said.
“But something got jammed in my knee when I made a wrong move. It felt like a small piece was stuck in my knee joint. To this day, I don’t know how I lasted the 90 minutes against Liverpool.
“I was of the opinion the whole time that the bone was just a symptom, not the cause. The specialists are 99% right. But it was such a complicated thing for me, it was just unfortunate.
“After ten minutes (in August 2024), I went in and said: I’m not coming back until I have surgery. You can guess three times what they found. The cartilage that had detached from the knee and remained stuck in the joint. The pressure caused the bone to bleed.”
Jordan Beyer is expected back before the end of the year, we wish him the best of luck.
