Tall fullbacks look totally wrong.I wonder if Roberto Carlos was ever accused of being too short to play full back
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Tall fullbacks look totally wrong.I wonder if Roberto Carlos was ever accused of being too short to play full back
After his injury Jagielka came back, took over the captaincy, won our player of the year award again, won 37 of his 40 England caps, played 283 PL games, and is still playing at a high level 14 years later. To say it ruined his career is a very strange take.I don’t know, players come back from them but I’m not sure if they’re always the same. Van Dijk isn’t no matter how much the media spin it. People will cry ‘he was always rubbish’ but Bolasie’s ACL pretty much finished him as a top flight player and ended his career with us. Same with Mangala, same with Tosun, same with Besic. People may have had views on their effectiveness before but they went from getting minutes in the first team to being completely out of the squad picture.
Even as far back as Jagielka Arteta and Yakubu (can’t think of another club who has had three ACLs in one season), Jagielka bounced back the best but never truly had that lightning pace he had before. Arteta lost his edge, he relied on technique and became a deep lying midfielder that we saw at Arsenal but the Arteta who could play on the wing and take on fullbacks was gone for ever. Yakubu was completely finished apart from a swan song at Blackburn.
They’re career destroyers, there’s the odd player who has come back at a decent level but there’s not many who come back just as good. I wouldn’t trust any players rehabilitation to our medical team either. If it’s an ACL it’s a nightmare for the lad, let’s pray it’s not.
Has he travelled down to London to the ligament hospital?So have we decided he’s torn all his ligaments from head to toe and will never walk again?
After his injury Jagielka came back, took over the captaincy, won our player of the year award again, won 37 of his 40 England caps, played 283 PL games, and is still playing at a high level 14 years later. To say it ruined his career is a very strange take.
At least I know it’s not just me then ?Missus later : “what did you do in work today?”
Me: “ oh ye know, stared at my phone for 8 hours waiting for Nathan Patterson updates “
Been proper gutted all day just need to know so we can start the greaving process
Miss you already nathan x
Acute or right?With the angles now.
Again, as I have pointed out in numerous posts, it isn't just that he's short, it's that he is not very clever at using his body and positioning to compensate for that in aerial duels.I wonder if Roberto Carlos was ever accused of being too short to play full back
The veneration of the now mediocre Coleman amongst some sections of the fanbase is one more reason why we are indeed not a truly ambitious club.Well if we know any ambitious premier league side, we should be sure to let them know.
* for the record though, Coleman was a top premier league right back, we were lucky to have him. Even last season was far from the worst performer despite age getting the better of him.