QPR's Alejandro Faurlin will soon begin his rehabilitation after undergoing knee surgery.
The 28-year old Argentine midfielder recently sustained anterior cruciate ligament damage for the third time in his career and will now look to the long road ahead in order to get back to playing at the top level.
Of the Faurlin injury, QPR's head of medical services Peter Florida James said the former Palermo loanee would soon be able to get back into light training as he deals with another lengthy pathway to recovery.
"Ale has had his ACL reconstructed, using a different graft. He also had a very little reinforcement, which is a slightly different operation to the one he had previously," said James.
"The surgeon was very pleased with how things went, which is positive. Ale is still in hospital but he's in better spirits now than he was a week or so ago so we're all grateful for that.
"The rehab will be quite an extensive one because it's a repair of a repair so we're looking at about nine months to get him back to fitness.
"His rehab will be fairly slow for the first couple of months, which will be quite frustrating for Ale.
"He's going to be on crutches for about six-to-eight weeks because of the nature of the repair. After that period, he'll then start to kick on with his recovery."
