For the second straight October, Gleison Bremer has gone under the knife to have an operation done on his left knee.
Juventus announced Monday that their all-everything Brazilian center back has flown to Lyon for the second time in the last 12 months to have surgery on his now-troublesome knee. In October 2024, it was to repair the torn ACL that he suffered against RB Leipzig in the Champions League. And now, in October 2025, the 28-year-old Bremer has gone to France to undergo arthroscopic surgery on a torn meniscus
that has somehow come about between his last appearance against Atalanta on Sept. 27 and the past couple of weeks in which he’s been dealing what was assumed to be just so minor muscle fatigue after playing his first amount of heavy minutes since his comeback from ACL surgery.
Yes, it’s the same knee. It’s the same knee for a player who was playing quite in his first handful of starts since missing most of the 2024-25 season after his knee injury on the second day of October last year.
We don’t know for sure how long Bremer will be out for, but the Italian media has a sense that it will be at least a month without Bremer in the lineup, with a potential return date at some point after the November international break.
The brief yet hugely important update from Juventus’ website is as follows:
This morning in Lyon, Gleison Bremer underwent a medical consultation with Dr. Sonnery-Cottet, who diagnosed him with a torn medial meniscus in his left knee. In the next few hours the player will undergo selective arthroscopic meniscectomy.
This isn’t quite the gut punch as his ACL injury was last year, but it’s still an incredibly brutal development for a player who has shown to be just as important as any player in this Juventus squad. That’s especially so when you consider how Juventus’ defense has played when he hasn’t been in the lineup over the last 12 months.
Bremer being out for at least the next month means that we will surely be seeing more Daniele Rugani in the lineup in some sort of fashion. Igor Tudor has, so far, been relatively reluctant to change away from his 3-4-2-1 formation despite recently developments on the injury front. Who knows if losing Bremer and being down to four players capable of playing center back will change that going forward the next few weeks.
For now, though, it’s now another blow to a squad that faces another period of time with a Bremer-sized hold in defense. How they cope with it remains to be seen, but it sure is not a very good development knowing who is on the schedule the next couple of weeks.
