Chelsea's Wesley Fofana could miss entire 2023-24 campaign after rupturing ACL

Last season as well the defender endured an injury-plagued season

Wesley Fofana could miss the 2023–24 campaign after the defender tore his anterior cruciate ligament and will undergo surgery.

Due to a knee injury, the 22-year-old defender was unable to go with the other members of his club on their preseason trip to the United States. The results of the scan on the issue for Fofana are catastrophic for the centre-back.

Fofana's recent seasons have been incredibly unfortunate due to injury issues. Fofana injured his leg in the summer of 2021 while participating in a friendly match for his previous team, Leicester City versus Villarreal. He missed more than seven months of action as a result.

The France international made a comeback in March 2022, finishing the season with the Foxes before agreeing to an £80 million transfer to Chelsea a few months later. Fofana, nevertheless, experienced additional bad luck during his debut campaign at Stamford Bridge.

He sustained a knee ailment in October that kept him out for more than two months, and four days after starting to exercise again, he experienced a reoccurring issue that kept him out for an additional 55 days. But because of this most recent setback, he might miss a significant portion of the 2023–2024 campaign.

Trevoh Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Benoit Badiashile, and Levi Colwill are now available for Chelsea to pick among in the heart of defence.

 Yet Badiashile was unable to go on the preseason trip with the remainder of the team since he continues to recuperate from a significant hamstring injury he sustained near the end of the previous season.

On Wednesday night, Chelsea's first game of their trip is against Wrexham. After that, the Blues will play Newcastle, Fulham, and Brighton before a one-off meeting against Borussia Dortmund in August.