If Sarr's not going to be even assessed via a scan for another month, then I doubt we'll see him before March...not a lot of chance for him to add to his value this season, then, and who knows if teams will be willing to pay what we'd hope with a doubt as to his future fitness. Which has totally 5crewed GP's 'strategy' with him. He will neither save us from relegation nor go for big bucks in the summer. With the news on Nkoulou & Foster being they'll be out until January, then the chance of getting the points we need after the two 5h1tfests coming up are almost zero. "What a Parcel of Idiots in a Boardroom" as Steeleye Span didn't sing.
This 100%. There tend to be two types of worrying knee injuries - the knee completely obliterated straight away ones (Deulofeu) or the long drawn out diagnosis ones (Sarr). You'd have to think if this was just a simple ligament strain or bad bruising they'd have a timescale on it by now.
I can genuinely see the club and Gino apologists framing this somehow as an unprecedented injury crisis - whilst totally ignoring that the squad wasn’t built to even withstand a mild injury list.
My guess would be there’s heavy swelling which means a proper diagnosis can’t be made yet by Dr.Nick.
This is this seasons ‘Deeney has an Achilles injury and is in a boot - he will be assessed in a few weeks when we expect him to return to training.’ Had it on very good authority that they knew at the time Deeney was out for 3+ months.
Yeah, that injury list has absolutely fuccked us - again, the loss of Sarr long term is dreadful news, but the more immediate impact is Nkoulou out until at least the fuccking new year - so that's some combination of chucklefuccks plus possibly the heroic but very green El Gaucho at the back guaranteed whatever happens for at least, what, 8 games, including the winnable/competitive section after the horrors of City and Chelsea. I just can't quite believe how bad this is getting, though also incredibly predictable - you can say 'you can't take injuries into account', but actually you can, and that's both exactly what smart recruitment would do, and exactly what our recruitment has absolutely refused to do. Let's pray to god we're not ever forced to find out what happens if our only straight up centre forward gets injured at any point.
This is what confuses me....why is it that all the sh1te players never get injured, or bounce back immediately, yet the good ones get injured and stay injured for ages? One of life's mysteries
It's a complicated process for our top end injured players as the insurance policies we have on them are more than likely offset by a few 'transfers' to Udinese to actually pay for them. Either that or we use some really dodgy cheap insurance.
The positive to take from all of this is that we're all going to be a few hundred quid up when we stick a few quid on over Man City goals this weekend. Over 5.5 City goals at 10/1 or a more cautious 5/1 at over 4.5
What they haven't shown is the next frame where he forgets to lift his trailing leg as he reaches the obstacle....
Scared to say it's real after last weeks drama but yeah it's real. Club taking the age old approach of wrap it in a blanket with a hot water bottle and some deep heat.
And here it is. The news that could well kill our season. It was always likely to happen and it yet again highlights our shambolic recruitment. Back in a position where at least one, likely two, of the comedy clan of Troost, Cathcart and Kabasele will be playing week in, week out for at least the next 6 weeks or so as a minimum, and Sarr - as much as I think he's been at times underwhelming - will no doubt be out for at least the next two or three months. - Our only two competent centre backs out - Two of our front three out - Woeful full backs - Lack of options in midfield We are completely f**ked, and tomorrow and Saturday is likely going to destroy morale as well. I can't see us conceding less than 8 as an absolute minimum across the next two games. If someone like King or Sissoko get any sort of injury now I honestly don't see how we'll pick up a single point over the next couple of months.
That's the thing though isn't it. We're so thin on defenders that the useless t urd will almost certainly play
In all fairness I don't think we were in a position to bring in 3 Premier League defenders to go alongside The Bloke From Chile. We definitely should have got one or two but we as a club will always struggle to have back up players capable at this level. The Bloke From Chile has barely been fit and the new bloke is now injured. I saw somebody mention this isn't an injury crisis because we should have back up but we've lost, our best two defenders, both wingers (who have scored 10 between them) and our best GK. I would say that's a crisis. How would most other clubs get on if they lost their best 4/5 players. Take Mane, Salah, Van Dyke and Allison out of the Liverpool team and strangely they don't have anywhere near the same quality as back up. It's the same with us at a much lower level obviously. We play 3 in midfield and have Kucka, Clevs, Sissoko, Louza, Tufan and Etebo. Seems like a fair amount of options to me. Full backs, I would say Femenia has been pretty decent this season so far. Left back is a problem but I suspect they expected Rose to be in better shape now. I would say the club did an ok job with midfield and attack in the summer but you can't have everything. Can you imagine the uproar on here now if we still had Deeney and Gray playing but had bought two quality centre backs. I'm not saying they got everything right and as I've mentioned before whoever looked at those centre backs and thought er would would be fine should be fired but we were limited in what we could buy and the year we went down it was the lack of goals scored, not so much goals against.
We need that button back. I would have a field day after a matchday loss. if possible can you group a load of post together and dislike all at once?
