Arek Milik’s season likely over after suffering thigh injury in training

TURIN, ITALY - 2026/04/06: Arkadiusz Milik of Juventus FC looks on during Serie A 2025/26 football match between Juventus FC and Genoa CFC at Allianz Stadium. Final scores; Juventus 2 : 0 Genoa. (Photo by Fabrizio Carabelli/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

At this point, that headline is not all that much of a surprise. So it goes for Juventus striker Arek Milik over the last two years in which he’s barely been able to actually take the field due to a multitude of injuries.

And now, we have another one to add to the list.

Juventus announced on Wednesday that Milik, who just returned last month from nearly two full seasons on the sidelines, is now injured again, this time with a thigh muscle injury that he picked up during Tuesday’s training session. Milik’s timetable for return is not set in stone, but every indication suggests that the 32-year-old Polish striker will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season as he adds the latest chapter in a two-year run in which he can count on one hand how many appearances he has made for both club and country.

It will also probably spell the end to his time with Juventus, with reports over the last few months suggesting that the club will seek to terminate the final year of his contract in an attempt to save some sort of money on a player who they’ve paid a lot of money to during his time away from the field.

Here is the short update on Milik’s latest injury, courtesy of Juventus’ website:

Following a muscle injury sustained in training on Tuesday, 14 April, 2026, Arkadiusz Milik underwent tests at J|Medical this Wednesday morning.

Those tests revealed a moderate-grade strain of the biceps femoris muscle in his right thigh.

Further tests will be conducted in about 10 days’ time to determine the exact recovery time.

When you’ve got six games remaining and you’re not even going to have an exact timetable for return until two of those are in the rear view, then yeah, it’s pretty likely that Milik’s season is over. Then you throw into the fact that you have a player who has taken a looooooong time to rehab from his previous handful of injuries and you wonder if the reported 30 days it takes to recover from this sort of muscle injury is even in play.

Milik made a pair of appearances off the bench and played a total of about 40 minutes after coming back from his near-two-year hiatus. And the funny thing is, he fits the kind of profile — when healthy, of course — of the kind of striker that Juve manager Luciano Spalletti could use off the bench. That’s especially true with Dusan Vlahovic out injured and Loïs Openda completely out of the picture.