Broke foot is better than Achilles injuries I suppose. It think it takes a while to heal, june July perhaps. Pre season should be OK. Its a ser back. I can see Shaw in there now, for some games.
Martinez Injury | Out for the season with metatarsal fracture
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Good news in a way. No chance of us rushing him back for the last games, he will be there for pre season, and it's not going to affect him long term.
Again though, we have to ask why so many of our players get injured so often. Are we not allowing proper recovery?
Again though, we have to ask why so many of our players get injured so often. Are we not allowing proper recovery?
Agreed, does anyone on here know of the continued research regarding this issue from specialist to boot companies.? Some say its the sock boot too tight (size down ) and players getting new boots every week to the exercises to strengthen ankle over building certain muscles. I'm old school and, purely a pub opinion rather than any science, playing in a sock with studs on the bottom just never seem protective enough to me.
I think not
Are you serious? I honestly can’t tell on here anymore.
Devastated for Licha. Massive loss for us. Tough end to the season.
Maybe there was another injury but there definitely was one after which he lost a lot of pace.
Also there's an ignore button you could use(for both thread and poster) if it makes you that annoyed.
Well I think it’s fairly obvious that Rooney’s career was not affected by an injury in 2006.
Big loss he's been one of our best performers this season.
Regarding the injury going on past metatarsal injuries our players have had I'm confident he will come back better than ever..
Regarding the injury going on past metatarsal injuries our players have had I'm confident he will come back better than ever..
I thought as the FA Cup is domestic so the suspensions carry over to the league? Or is he out of today's game too?
Competition specific. Assuming he’s had two yellows in the FA Cup.
Has it always been like that? Casemiro got sent off in the FA Cup but missed league games, I always thought yellows would have been the same.
Reds and yellows are treated differently.
People keep saying this when what you really mean is we need better players. Currently at CB we started the season with;
Martinez
Varane
Maguire
Lindelof
Phil Jones
Bailly
You see the issue? We have 6 Center backs, Jones barely plays, Baily we have given up on, leaving us with 4 that we have been rotating, 2 of which most people in here dont rate.
The problem is the quality not the quantity.
I guess his metatarsal was his Achilles heel
True. We have a very big, very expensive squad. All it shows is that, for the most part, the people responsible for assembling it have no idea what good value looks like.
On paper, we have a bunch of options for every position except centre forward. However, how many of these 'options' is actually the right standard or profile?
We've wasted a lot of money. We may start with Lindelof and Maguire today. That's £120m of spend, give or take. Poor value.
Also we’ve had Shaw and Casemiro play at CB in some games. But yes quality of the depth is more important than quantity. Just look at Chelsea as a prime example.
Rooney rushed back to be fit for the World Cup in 2006. Not sure he was 100%. He then injured himself during the tournament and kept playing on. It is a complete different scenario.
Martinez can take time and will be back for the pre season. There is no reason to rush back anyway, not like we are in the title race or final stages of the CL, or even something important with Argentina.
Shaw can fill in for Licha. But Shaw needs to get fit first. Most teams don't anticipate their starting CB's to get injured. Unfortunately, we do have Varane, who is prone to coming in and out of the team. Signing a young but growing CB with the physical and technical attributes to play in this team would be really good to have given Varane's potential for absence. Nothing too expensive, but young inexperienced enough not to feel the need to start all games, but good enough to replace Varane is a partner for Licha eventually ( he needs to be tall)
I'm dubious about playing Shaw at CB, yes he has the ball playing skills to play there, but he's also put in some woeful performances whilst playing there this season.
He's also going to be playing there in some very intense games too.
He's also going to be playing there in some very intense games too.
Played great there vs City and the post world cup games leading up to City
Will he be available for the FA cup? Any small chance?
Nope. Ten Hag has said he will not be playing in FA cup final.
Yeah he will have to do the rallying call instead