Jota's Injury Timeline Confirmed as Celtic Fears Come True

Celtic have quite a ways to go before they look to be a stronger roster, as they have seemingly shuffled things up ahead of the 2025-2026 season. While this was likely necessary for the long-term outlook of the club, they might be weaker now than they were a few months ago. Thankfully, the team have a significant amount of talented players on the roster, most notably Daizen Maeda, whom they can build around over the course of the summer window. With five additions being finalised so far, and multiple others in the pipeline, they could find their way back in the coming weeks. Injuries have set the club back a bit more than anticipated, though, with Jota and Reo Hatate suffering pretty setbacks near the end of last season. While the Japanese midfielder has already taken part in pre-season, the timeline for Jota's injury is going to be quite long, according to a recent update from Brendan Rodgers. In a recent media appearance, Rodgers discussed Jota's injury and it now seems as though he will not be able to pla