33 games a season is an awful lot for a 17/18 year old. I wonder if that's played a part?
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He's so injury prone now. Ridiculous
He's like the anti-Evra... burn him with fire!
I'm probably one of his biggest fans on this forum but to be honest that he is now again injured is really a joke 
Which he clearly will, his talent undeniable.
He will get over this period of injury and settling in and become a fantastic left back I'm sure.
The fact he is injured again is very frustrating. He has shown his quality though, so hopefully over summer he can get his body right.
He arrives less fit than we need him to be > we presumably put him on a more intensive fitness regime than he's used to > he picks up more injuries than usual.
He's a young player, maybe he just needs time to adapt to the increased intensity here?
He's a young player, maybe he just needs time to adapt to the increased intensity here?
Not yet.
Every time this thread gets bumped I expect to read that he got injured again.
Unfortunately that's almost always true.
Unfortunately that's almost always true.
Maybe after five years of always suffering injuries, we will review our training methods? Maybe? Especially given players who are picking up injuries werent picking them up at their previous club as frequent as they do with us.
I love how "match rhythm" has now become the official way of saying match fitness. Philosophy
Probably an excuse to move Blind back to LB as he was poor in midfield last week.
feck sake, Shaw is the one I want the most to succeed of the new lads. Gutted with his injuries.
This is how I see it. He played a lot over the past couple of seasons, then last summer went to Brazil for the World Cup. Though he didn't play much, he'd have been training a lot in circumstances that probably wouldn't exactly be comfortable to someone who is still pretty new in senior football. After that he decided to cut his holiday short to join our pre-season tour, van Gaal wasn't happy with his fitness and put him on an intense program, then over the course of the season he'd have been taking part in the regular double training sessions van Gaal does... I think all that would have put way too much strain on his body, explaining the number of injuries he's had this season compared to previously in his career. What he needs more than anything is a good rest this summer and come back to next season better for it, but unfortunately he'll be with the England U21s
You'd have to wonder. Sod's fecking law that he only hit a wall after signing for us.
8 seperate injuries this season apparently. Hopefully it's just one of those things and next season we get a full campaign out of him. His potential is massive.
A long summer without football should set him right, he was at the World Cup last summer which may have played a part.
Let's not forget his body is still growing, could be a reason he keeps getting muscle injuries.
He'll be off to the Czech Republic this summer to take part in the Euro U21 finals unfortunately.
He is injury prone like Jones, Evans and Rafael
I think it's due to their bad life-style.
I think it's due to their bad life-style.
Well that sucks.
And the Scousers reckon we don't have anyone like Daniel Sturridge...
It's pretty shitty that England will be taking him to the Under 21 world cup considering that he looks like he's in need of a rest. Why risk a player becoming injury prone just to try and win a competition of no real importance
What do you mean?
Have we had the same training methods across the three different managers we had in those five years?
I doubt it. Didnt Moyes do training without a football or something? Anyway, maybe all the players are being worked too hard. All three managers seem strict (though its probably been worse last few years and getting worse).
Either way, you would think this will be reviewed within a club as big as ours and methods would be looked at. You hardly see the likes of Madrid, Barca, Bayern, even Chelsea suffer as many injuries as we do.
Well he's hyphenated lifestyle into two words, so might be a fashion thing. Something to do with skinny jeans?
You'd hope so. You should pop Ed Woodward an email, just in case this hasn't occurred to them yet.
what bad lifestyle?
Hes too busy making it rain money to be bothered about little things like that.
Bayern's had it worse than us in terms of injuries this year
But how many years running has that happened? Granted yeah they might have beaten Dortmund had they had their first team, but this year seems more than a freak than anything for them. Might be wrong but cant remember it happening to them before. (especially in terms of volume of players)
is he? didn't he play pretty much the entire season last year with Southampton?
And the year before.
The new Rafael?
yup,after all its a groin injury..
Keep on wearing those and a second career as a choirboy might open up.
19 years old, tons of potential. Terrible buy my arse, just needs to sort out his injuries.
Fergie talked about Henderson's running style would give him lots of injury problems....
I think that could actually apply for Shaw and his fat arse.
I think that could actually apply for Shaw and his fat arse.
If you cant play for the club because you're constantly injured, you're a terrible buy so far. Sorting out injuries isnt the easiest thing ever, ask Robben or Hargreaves.
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