Missed my point. From what we heard, the player was agitating to play and you can't force a player to have surgery. I wouldn't want to live in a world where you could.
You can sit him anyway but with different doctors opinions including Botman's doctors own second opinion, again, as I recall, it wasn't just Newcastle doctors fucking it up. They sit him despite his medical report he brings, sounds like a very unsettled player.
All that is based on reports of course. I never examined his knee.