put pen to paper on a new one-year deal<\/a>, with a club option of a second year.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a long journey, but I can\u2019t thank the club enough for giving me this opportunity,” Dasilva explained.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t know how many clubs would have given a player this opportunity to carry on. It\u2019s been hard, but I\u2019m very thankful for it, and I just can\u2019t wait to be out there enjoying my football with the boys and putting on the shirt again. <\/p>\n
Explaining the details of his injury problems, he added: \u201cI did my ACL, MCL and meniscus in early February 2024, and then I had to have another operation six months later, and then another operation eight months later. This is why it\u2019s been a minute since I\u2019ve been on the pitch. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been hard, obviously with a lot of uncertainty, but the club have helped me tremendously and obviously my faith, friends and family as well. It\u2019s been hard, but I\u2019ve enjoyed it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dasilva’s last game for the club came against Tottenham in a 3-2 defeat on 31 January 2024 – 631 days ago – and the 27-year-old, who celebrated his birthday on the day he signed his new contract, has revealed when he might be back playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, I\u2019m just doing rehab outside, doing ball work and running. I\u2019ve been doing that for quite a few weeks now, so hopefully, within the next month or so, I can start training with the team. <\/p>\n
“I try not to look too far ahead because I\u2019ve got today and tomorrow to focus on. I\u2019m just taking every milestone as it comes. <\/p>\n
\u201cRight now, my next milestone is to integrate with the team, which will hopefully come maybe around the next international break.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Dasilva has spoken for the first time after signing a new contract with Brentford, detailing his injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-222091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}