JLW
Player Valuation: £70m
Dont know if his reaction going off (head in his shirt upset) was more to do with knowing its a bad injury or he was gutted because of the occasion.
Hope for the latter.
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Hope for the latter.
Wouldn't it be nice, just for once in our Everton lives that has been filled with misery and woe for far too long, that we get the news he's just out for 1 game instead of it being a season ender
Timbucktoo
Player Valuation: £30m
We have a record of having players getting what seems to be light injuries but out up being out for some time, so while hopping it will not be serious and we have him back in a few weeks, I have a bad feeling it could be the end of his season at least. The way he stopped suddenly when he was walking off the pitch and then got very upset makes me think the worst.
toffeemeister77
Player Valuation: £8m
This!
Lachman test, didn't see them do it at the time but could have been missed. Hope it's not the ACL I had three ops on mine and still have issues. Especially bad for someone who twists and turns like he does.
BainesontoastNEW
Player Valuation: £50m
Anyone got any pics of him leaving the ground on crutches or anything? There's usually leaks for that sort of thing, isn't there?
Yeah it's hard to tell from his reaction, I imagine all sportsmen panic when they feel something in the knee knowing how serious it CAN be (especially when a teammate has just had a really bad one) but there's a whole spectrum of things it could be. Not always a straight correlation between pain and damage either. So I'm not sure if he can have known for sure it was so bad as to provoke that reaction, and even if the physios suspected a bad one they surely wouldn't tell him that on the pitch.
On the phrase "opened up his knee" it sounds awful but it reminded me of a Holgate injury a couple of years ago that was described the same, in the end it was 8 games (so slightly worse than initially suspected by Lampard) but right now I think we'd take that given the possible alternatives.
….i remember chasing a through ball once that ran through and bounced into the keepers hands. As it did so, I’d put the breaks on and we bumped ever so lightly into each other. I’d turned side on to him and he ever so slightly put his knee into the side of my right leg behind my knee.
It was totally innocuous, nobody noticed a thing but a few minutes later it was half-time and I had to come off. With my foot planted I suppose that keeper ‘opened up my knee’ by hitting it side on. It wasn’t too bad walking in a straight line but any deviation was agony. I remember how much of a challenge it was getting in and out of my car.
No scans in those days, the suggestion was I’d ‘tweaked a ligament’ and I reckon it was at least 8 weeks before I started playing again.
It was totally innocuous, nobody noticed a thing but a few minutes later it was half-time and I had to come off. With my foot planted I suppose that keeper ‘opened up my knee’ by hitting it side on. It wasn’t too bad walking in a straight line but any deviation was agony. I remember how much of a challenge it was getting in and out of my car.
No scans in those days, the suggestion was I’d ‘tweaked a ligament’ and I reckon it was at least 8 weeks before I started playing again.
Vaughan
Player Valuation: £35m
yes this is something positive at least. I tore my MCL and the doctor dd a test for ACL so it can be diagnosed quickly
though Mangala played on against Brighton ....
really hope its not bad. i was devastated for him. really hard to watch him go off in tears
toffeeblue9
Player Valuation: £35m
That's not particularly optimistic viewing
Where did you see that...cant see anything on his official twitter account.
neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
He's on his feet....
I guess that's him going for his scan...so hopefully we'll hear some news tomorrow during moyes press conference.
Blue Willy
Player Valuation: £10m
He’s earned a rest. No rush lads.
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