By now, you are probably well aware that Juventus are going to be without their best defender, Gleison Bremer, after he underwent surgery for a torn meniscus in his left knee. It is a big blow for a team
that will come out of the October international break looking to snap a string of five straight draws in all competitions when they face Como this Sunday afternoon.
The question after this piece of very bad news is easy: How long will Bremer be out for?
That was something Juventus did not answer after announcing that Bremer’s surgery was a success. See for yourself …
This Tuesday – October 14, 2025 – morning, Gleison Bremer underwent arthroscopic selective meniscectomy surgery on the medial meniscus of his left knee.
The procedure was a success, and carried out by Dr. Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet, in the presence of Juventus’ team doctor, Dr. Paolo Cavallo, at the Hôpital Privé Jean Mermoz in Lyon.
In the coming days, the player will begin the rehabilitation process aimed at returning to competitive activity.
Successful surgery? That’s good.
Getting back to competitive activity? That’s also good.
But not knowing when Bremer, the centerpiece of Juventus’ defense and arguably the team’s most important player, will actually get back on the field? That’s not very good.
At this rate, though, it may not be all that surprising. Why? Because it’s been more than just a year or two since Juventus stopped laying out recovery time for the vast majority of their injuries. Even when Juan Cabal was injured a couple of weeks ago, the only kind of timetable we were given was when Cabal was going to be re-evaluated. Nothing more than that. And that means we’re left to the Italian media to speculate or do their best estimations after doing a WebMD search or something along those lines to try and determine how long Cabal (or any other player who has been injured) will be out for.
It’s the same with Bremer because we simply don’t know at this time how long he will be out. It feels like it’s going to be at least a month or two, but that’s not exactly something that is going to give us a true idea of when Bremer is going to be stepping back into the center of Juventus’ defense.
The only real clue we may have is from an interview that ilbianconero.com did with Fabrizio Tencone, Juventus’ former team doctor and the current Director of the Isokinetic Medical Center in Turin. This is what he had to say about Bremer’s potential recovery time:
“If, as stated in Juventus’ official statement, a meniscectomy is indeed the procedure (basically, they go in and remove the broken piece, without stitching), the wait is at least a month to a month and a half. In this case, it’s easy to imagine they’ll probably take a little longer, given that the knee has already been operated on.”
So that’s probably at least six weeks. And, as we probably would prefer, Juventus should play things a little slower than that just to make sure that everything is actually good and he can hopefully return without much issue.
Then again, we thought that was happening the first time around after he entered the final stages of his comeback from his ACL surgery — and we all know how that has gone over the last couple of weeks.
