Imagine this poor lad watching our games this season from the sidelines. Thought he was joining Manchester United, and he's ended up at a club fighting relegation.
15
Totally forgot about him.
May get a "new player" bounce.
May get a "new player" bounce.
Feel for the lad. Got a lot more pressure on him now when he returns to the team. He thought he’d be returning close to the CL places. Instead he’s tasked with helping us move into the top half of the table
Has anyone mentioned how sorry they feel for Yoro yet?
Why does anyone feel sorry for him? Isn't he basically guaranteed a game by the shower of incompetence in front of him?
This isn't true for quite a few players who made their debuts in their teens. The following are a few examples of centerbacks over the years:
Sergio Ramos made his La Liga debut at 17 for Sevilla and was a regular for them by 18. This continued with Real when they signed him at 19
Maldini debuted at 16 and became a Milan regular by 17 and never looked back
Our De Ligt while maybe not being the best example based on injuries in recent years, debuted for Ajax at 17 and was a starter in their 2016/17 EL campaign under Peter Bosz. He was made captain at 18 and became a regular starter in 2017/18, getting 2,913 mins in the Eredevisie alone. The following season he played 2,970 mins in the league and 990 in their CL campaign. His injury problems began in earnest while at Juventus and the majority of his 30 documented injuries were to his right knee and to his thighs.
Current Ajax CB Jorrel Hato (18) debuted at 16 and played 2962 mins in the league last season and 540 in Europe. Also consider the likes of Seedorf and Kluivert who were regulars by 16 and 18 respectively for Ajax in the 90s, playing huge roles in league titles and long CL campaigns where they made 2 back to back finals
John Terry became a PL regular at 19.
Rooney
Rio made his PL debut at 17 and at 18 made 27 senior appearances for West Ham and Bournemouth (10) on loan. He was a fully fledged starter by 19 and captain by 22 for Leeds
Perhaps Lille knew what they were doing with Yoro, maybe not, but its not unprecedented for a prodigious young player to get regular starts and not suffer through injuries from being over played.
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Great to have him back, but I don't like these compilations. Why hype it up so much like this. He's 18, about to chucked into the Premier league as a centre back coming from the French league. He's not gonna set the world alight. Ease him into it. This creates needless extra pressure on him and more scrutiny from pundits and opposition fans especially.
Nah I don’t think so considering we had injury concerns about his metatarsal when signing him. We just need to look at Martinez for proof of how not to go about things.
Genuinely excited to see him and De Ligt together.
Think Ipswich on Nov 24 is realistic, Leicester in the league before break will come a bit too early
I’d be thinking after the next international break he will be available. He’ll be eased in I’d imagine . Kids still only 18 and ETH likes easing players in very very slowly (Ugarte)
Can’t wait to see him back in contention
I’d say they’re shitting themselves about returning from a metatarsal fracture after what happened to Martinez. Will be making sure he’s 110% ready before he kicks a ball.
I assume there shouldn’t normally be any later consequences for an injury like this? Especially at 18?
Press will be circling like vultures waiting on his first misplaced pass.
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Yeah I feel the same. I don't see any upside to doing these compilations.
you’re not wrongThat was a great music video
In an uncomplicated break, no. Fractured bone heals up, if anything, stronger than it was before. But we don’t know if there were any other associated damage, to ligaments, joints or nerves. Which can get pretty gnarly.
I’m sure nobody expected Martinez to break down when he did. But that will be fresh in the minds of everyone at the club. So they’ll err on the side of caution, I’m sure.
I'm sure I saw something a little while back about he is targeting Arsenal away on Dec 3, ironic when that was the team he picked up injury against
No need to rush him, he can start playing with the reserves for a couple of games if needed, as of now, we have 4 fit CBs in De Ligt, Martinez, Evans & Lindelof, so we have decent cover and there is no need to rush him back, probably Dec is the best time to let him get back into full mode of playing games.
Yeah have some really tough games in December and early January that's for sure
So he never got to play a meaningful game under ETH... looking forward to him joining the squad
I’m glad this kid won’t be returning to the shit show that was Ten Hags Utd. He might have a chance at succeeding now.
Amorim to give him a run out on 10th November v Leicester?
Setting up a GoFundMe for poor Yoro. Send Yr donations to....
I really like his chances of fitting in at RCB in Amorim's system. Looked very comfortable defending those wide areas in preseason.
I thought he would have been in the middle?
De Ligt - Yoro - Martinez
But maybe makes more sense for De Ligt to be the 'organiser' in the middle?
I think he suits the middle also cause the middle CB in Amorim's system moves up in the middle with the no 6 to play out and i think he is better than De Ligt with passing i thought?
I don't know the ins and outs of exactly what Amorim wants from each CB, but it seems like you'd want your big, physical defender in the middle, going against the opposition striker, competing in aerial duels etc, and faster recovery defenders out wide covering the channels, sometimes having to go 1v1 with wingers etc.
From what we saw in preseason of him, I fancy Yoro in those wide areas up against a player with pace far more than any of our other CBs.
Probably in the long run not a bad thing he missed that absolutely mess of a start. Same as Mainoo last season.
