Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew feels Hatem Ben Arfa's best option for his recovery is to return home to France.
The £6 million signing from Marseille suffered a double fracture from Nigel de Jong's horror tackle in October and has spent the majority of his recuperation time at the French FA headquarters in Clairefontaine.
Pardew said: "We've questioned whether to bring him back at times and have his treatment here and get him embedded into the city a little bit more, but I think the personal issue he had with what happened in Tunisia with his family and him, as a person, we just think it's better that he stays there.
"It's nothing to do with the French national team or anything like that - you have to take on board that he's a foreign player, newly arrived in the country and the injury happened so early for him, would you really want to be stuck here with a broken leg with people he doesn't really know? He's been brought up there, he knows the doctor and everything else.
"It's a moral debate that me and the club doctor have had - shall we bring him back? - and we just keep coming to the same decision - let's just leave him there, he seems to be progressing well.
"Other than being in the city and getting used to the restaurants and God knows what else, there's no other benefit for us at the moment.
"He's on constant attention at Clairefontaine, he seems to be enjoying the treatment and everything else and our doctor travels over and makes sure. The facilities there are absolutely brilliant."
