“I spent 20 days bleeding and vomiting… I lost 8 kilos”, a PSG striker recounts his ordeal last December

Gonçalo Ramos est passé par des moments compliqués. XinHua – Rit Heize

Longtemps absent des terrains cet hiver, l’attaquant du PSG Gonçalo Ramos est revenu sur le calvaire qu’il a vécu avec un virus, qui l’a envoyé quelques jours à l’hôpital.

Arriving for 80 million euros at Paris Saint-Germain last August, Portuguese striker Gonçalo Ramos nevertheless saw his playing time drastically reduced at the end of 2023. The fault of a virus. In any case, this is what the former Benfica player revealed to the Portuguese daily Record.

"I’I had a complicated month of December. I first caught a virus which then turned into a colon infection", he explained to the newspaper.

"During a season of adaptation in France, that doesn’help"

PSG never spoke about this situation publicly, concerning its center forward, while Luis Enrique had just clarified that the 22-year-old striker was "lost weight".

"I spent 20 days bleeding and vomiting, unable to eat, with a very high fever , added Gonçalo Ramos in the interview. I had to go to the hospital four or five times, and I was on a drip. I lost 8 kilos and, during a season of adaptation in France, that didn't help. I then had to gain weight mid-season, do a pre-season in January which is not easy."

An infection which also explains the difficulties in integrating the Parisian number 9, who played 30 matches and registered "only" 9 goals.