....what?prepare yourself for disappointment, Bissouma should be in for a relatively easy night if it’s those 2.
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....what?prepare yourself for disappointment, Bissouma should be in for a relatively easy night if it’s those 2.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
Most of the time, posts like that one are set up in advance and programmed to release at a certain time for maximum impact.
If the injury news is true, the post could have gone out because the person responsible for the feed forgot about the post, wasn't looped in, couldn't be arsed to take it down on Sunday or even was explicitly ordered not to do so in order to avoid giving away information that might help the opposition fill out the team sheet more effectively.
That last one does sound a bit like Carlo, who likes to play his fitness hand close to the vest.
sixtynineseventy
Player Valuation: £1.5m
The good news is there is no mention of the JPG injury in the latest club email sent out this morning. The bad news is... Iwobi is available...
Depends if its home or away. At home yes they would but if their away to a team down south then they'd be travelling on Sunday so I doubt they'd be training.
billyblue80
Player Valuation: £70m
You just know it's bad news it's always bad news
About 75% of the tweets you see from clubs are scheduled in advance. The social media team won't be working on a Sunday with no game on.
No idea if this is true but it wouldn't shock me. He hadn't played football in 18months and probably as keen as a march hare. Worrying though if true.
meagher94
Player Valuation: £35m
Means nothing mate, they said nothing about Doucoure until the teamsheet was announced.
Looking forward to people coming along and telling us there’s nothing wrong with what we do in training and every team gets 3 injuries a week in training.
cantlivewithem
Player Valuation: £950k
hopeful this is fake news. if he has injured himself again so soon he aint never comin back
If this is just a blag rumour that some little biff has created for Twitter likes he needs to be launched into the sun
Need to start an injury weasel index if this turns out to be false info.
Martin Alvito
Player Valuation: £50m
Shades of Stu Holden if true.
I'd say that if the problem is the squad is thin and the injuries are due to repetitive stress, there probably isn't much that's wrong. The players are going to break anyway, and they're statistically more likely to break in training (where they spend more time) than in a match.
It's a Sophie's Choice - you can undertrain to try to compensate, but then they're not match fit, or you can train normally and lose players to injury.
I will say that I suspect that the club could do better with measuring the load players have been carrying and individualizing training regimens. But I also suspect that the root cause of the injury problems over the years has been insufficient depth.
Why would players get injured in training due to extra workload? They’re all doing the same amount of training. I don’t think it has anything to do with squad depth tbh. We actually have a huge squad, problem is it’s full of absolute mud which makes it feel like it’s small.
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