Landed this summer at PSG, Gonçalo Ramos saw his first season in the capital spoiled by a terrible virus.
Recruited for some 65 million euros during the last summer transfer window, Gonçalo Ramos had a complicated start at PSG to say the least. Put in competition with Randal Kolo Muani, arrived from Eintracht Frankfurt, the Portuguese international saw his playing time reduced to nothing during the autumn. And not only because of the repositioning of Kylian Mbappé in the axis.
The former Benfica player also had to deal with viral disease, an illness which caused the 22-year-old to lose weight. “The reality is he lost weight, it’s true, I don’t know how much. We could see it, with the risks that this implies for his health,” Luis Enrique confided after the revelations made by the Portuguese press on this virus.
“I spent 20 days bleeding and vomiting”
Back in the selection this Monday, Gonçalo Ramos returned to the Record columns on the ordeal experienced this fall. “I had a complicated month of December. I first caught a virus which then turned into a colon infection”he confided, adding: “I spent 20 days bleeding and vomiting, unable to eat, with a very high fever. »
“I had to go to the hospital four or five times, and I was on a drip, he continued. I lost 8 kilos and, during a season of adaptation in France, that doesn't help. I then had to gain weight mid-season, do a pre-season in January which is not easy. » The man who has scored 7 goals in 10 caps with Portugal has played 26 matches with PSG this season, scoring 6 goals, all in Ligue 1.
