2025/26 Jarrad Branthwaite

[Blue Smoke]

Way too many injuries this lad and it's such a shame. Good job we kept keane

 

[zook]

So add a CB…to the list of signings need for Jan then…were a injury away from garner being your RB for the season

I think Garner being our RB for the season may improve us tbh, Garner is more of a right back than O’Brien is

 

[hallamblue]

Way too many injuries this lad and it's such a shame. Good job we kept keane

He's still only young, and a very big lad who plays in a way that will mean injuries are more possible than if he was just a big lump like Lewis Dunk. I remember plenty of players like Giggs and Gerrard who had a lot of injuries when they were younger but then became far more reliable once their bodies were fully developed, let's hope Branthwaite is the same.

 

[Groucho]

I think Garner being our RB for the season may improve us tbh, Garner is more of a right back than O’Brien is

O’Brien to CB, lash Keane up front.

 

[Fonzy]

I think Garner being our RB for the season may improve us tbh, Garner is more of a right back than O’Brien is

He would but you get my point we have one LB…if he gets injured Garner has to play LB.

If keane or Tarkowski get injured O’brien plays

But if the LB and CB are injured at same time you have coleman who is essentially semi retired

 

[MACCA75]

This doesn't make any sense...

If one of the 3 CBs gets injured you just move the other 2 and bring on the full back.

I see the sense of it. You are less likely to have one of the 3 CB’s injured if one isn’t playing.

 

[Fonzy]

Sell next Summer, if poss. We need the money and he's getting too unreliable.

Who is buying a injured player for 70 million?

 

[hallamblue]

O’Brien to CB, lash Keane up front.

Sad to say, but Keane has more of an eye for goal than the 2 strikers we paid £50 million for.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Next Jonathan Woodgate? In terms of ability and the injuries that ruined it..

 

[Eggs]

It's 100% true. He has suffered another Hamstring

…once they start they can plague a career. I said it when it kicked off with DCL, he’ll get a decent run of games at some point and that’s the time to cash in.

Sad but it’s harsh reality, hopefully his stock rises again.

 

[hallamblue]

Next Jonathan Woodgate? In terms of ability and the injuries that ruined it..

Well he ended up at Real Madrid so could be worse!

 

[hallamblue]

So add a CB…to the list of signings need for Jan then…were a injury away from garner being your RB for the season

Garner is our best right back anyway. We should just get another central midfielder in and play him there permanently.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Value will have dropped from £80 million plus to £25 million within the space of a year.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Well he ended up at Real Madrid so could be worse!

Yeah, that's why I said Woodgate haha

 

[Lanolin]

Who is buying a injured player for 70 million?

I've said before, I think he's great but I think talk of £70m was always a bit pie in the sky. We know what our financial situation was a couple of years ago and nobody seemed to even come close to paying what we were asking. He's got one England cap and hasn't always made squads and isn't playing CL etc. By next summer he'll be 24 and no longer seen as a precocious young player but one moving into their prime. Like I say. it's not meant to downplay his ability at all I think he's very good, but in the wider footballing world I just don't think he's seen as being a level above his contemporaries the way he is on here.