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West Ham have confirmed midfielder Manuel Lanzini underwent knee surgery on a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee - and said it was a success.

The midfielder underwent surgery in Barcelona, conducted by world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon Dr Ramon Cugat to prepare the ruptured ligament and Lanzini will now spend the next two-to-three weeks in the city's Hospital Quiron to begin rehabilitation.

Lanzini picked up the devastating injury just six days before the 2018 World Cup started while training with Argentina in the Catalan city and is expected to be out from anywhere between six to 12 months, depending on how his rehab goes.

New head of medical at West Ham, Richard Collinge, travelled to Barcelona for a consultation with Dr Cugat ahead of Lanzini's surgery and has since been informed how it went.

Collinge told the Hammers official website that the midfielder would return to London at some point in July to carry on his rehab and the club will be "pulling out all the stops" to get him as fit as they can as soon as they can.

Collinge said: "Manu had a rupture of his anterior cruciate ligament, which occurred while he was training at Argentina’s pre-World Cup camp in Barcelona,” Collinge explained.

"On the positive side, we were local to Dr Cugat, who is a world-renowned knee specialist, so we had a consultation with him in Barcelona on Tuesday where we planned the surgery, which was undertaken late on Thursday night.

"From correspondence with the surgeon and Manu himself, the surgery went well and everything went to plan, the cruciate ligament was repaired and we now start down the road to recovery.

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"Manu will be staying in Barcelona for two to three weeks, undergoing intensive rehabilitation, and I will be going out there to oversee the early phases of that. He will then be returning to London to work with ourselves with a view to getting himself back on the pitch as soon as possible."

Lanzini explained last week how the injury occurred on the eve of what would have been his first World Cup with his country.

The midfielder said: "I received a pass from Marcos Rojo and tried to give it to Javier Mascherano who was behind me.

"When I turned, I didn't set my foot firmly on the ground and all my weight fell on my knee. I knew instantly that it was going to be very bad."

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