Former Barcelona captain Carles Puyol has offered advice to Gavi over his ACL injury.
There's fears Gavi may miss almost all of 2024 due to the recovery time needed.
Puyol told Mundo Deportivo: Unfortunately I have experience with injuries. The first thing is to send him a lot of encouragement, that now he has patience. We all know Gavi, the winning character he has. He must be thinking about having surgery and starting rehabilitation. So the advice is 'be patient, he's very young and he has a lot of games ahead of him.'
He can come back, for sure and I'm sure he'll come back very well. He's young and at his age everything recovers much faster, but the important thing is to be patient and not to rush things, especially in the first few months.
"It's said by someone who didn't have any patience and wanted to run a lot and I paid dearly for it. He should be calm, I'm sure he's in very good hands."