He doesn't seem depressed by the injury. In my view, up-to-3 months is just a prediction by Bild. I don't think it'd be that serious. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain used to suffer the similar injury 1 week before the 2014 World Cup began. Arsenal's medical staff recently confirmed that he will be able to participate their pre-season on time (will start on July 19). So it'd take him around 7 weeks to recover. When you sustained a tear to the medial ligament of the knee, you'd be out for 1 to 3 months. If you had to do an operation, you'd spend about 1 year on the sideline. Nagasawa didn't need an operation, so I hope he'd come back after 2 months max.
Couldn't find much with my poor german. He was training but without the ball a couple of weeks ago... I randomly guess one more month maybe?
He's trying to be ready to play again when his grandmother, mother and sister are visiting him, which appears to be around the end of this month/early next month. Stöger appears to hope having him back in team training during the international break, though another news outlet states he should join at the end of this month already at the latest.
Kazuki #Nagasawa könnte gegen Frankfurt im Kader stehen, zu 100 % beim Spiel gegen den BVB. #effzeh— 1. FC Köln (@fckoeln) October 2, 2014 yahoo!
Translation: He might be on the bench against Frankfurt (October 4th), and he'll be featured in the team to face Dortmund for 100% (October 18th).
http://www.fc-koeln.de/news/detaila...]=8270&cHash=fda7fcc1e5d9269cc89e61fcf21f8504 Köln lost a friendly against 4th div. Alemannia Aachen 2-3, with Nagasawa playing the first half. A certain Taku Ito scored the winner for Aachen.
I don't know what were the manager's plans for him but even if he had his injury killed them. He's played a couple of matches with the reserve team in November and then disappeared =( Hope he manages a comeback because he can be a good sub even in a competitive league like the Bundesliga.