There are four striking words inked on Tino Livramento's right forearm: "Beauty in the struggle." These are lyrics taken from J.Cole's song 'Love Yourz', but they could just so easily have summed up Livramento's journey.
After all, this is a defender who bounced back from the first serious injury of his career to secure a move to Newcastle United little more than a year later. "When you're injured, it's tough," the 21-year-old told ChronicleLive. "It's a struggle and you've got to find something that keeps you going and that beauty for me was trying to prove to everyone that it was a horrendous injury, but I was still very young.
"I had not done anything in the game yet and it was just proving to myself that I could reach that level again as a starting full-back in the Premier League. I looked to my family as well in those low moments and they helped me out a lot." READ MORE: Newcastle make under the radar FFP move that could end up saving millions in transfer market READ MORE: Amanda Staveley date confirmed as Newcastle lose 'incredible' transfer assets Livramento had to wait 392 days to make his comeback after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) while playing for Southampton against Brighton at the Amex in 2022.
It said a lot about Livramento's mental strength that the youngster returned to the scene of that horror injury to face the same opponent in his first game back. Newcastle had long tracked Livramento's progress by then. In fact, Eddie Howe, former sportin.