Why so many injuries?

[HOWIE13]

There's also the mental illness/issues that seem to have affected some of our players which are hard to quantify but has led to the suggestion we need a specialist psychiatrist/psychologist to help improve the form of several of our players.

 

[bol-uk]

When you see how out of condition our squad looks most of the time, compared to the opposition, it's not surprising really.

Wot?

 

[bol-uk]

This used to be a huge problem at spurs, to the point where Redknapp had to keep a second set of 11 players and still couldn't get by with 3 senior strikers and about 72 centre backs with an average age of 35.

Don't ask me how, but it's an issue solved (for the most part) by Pochettino. I think it could be argued that perhaps the fitter you are as a player, the smaller the likelihood you'll get injured? Just postulating, as fitness is the biggest change he brought in.

Of course injuries still happen, but they seem to be exponentially fewer in quantity and duration these days - but as has been previously mentioned, you tend not to notice the injury list of the teams you don't follow with such detail.

Not so sure. Lamela and vertonghen and now Kane have all had big injuries this year just off the top of my head.

 

[ADT]

Because we’re cursed

 

[blue61]

Wot?

Eh?

 

[HongKongToffee]

He does look like a proper simpleton...

Is he still on the books at City being paid handsomely for being "Home grown" and just turning up for photo ops pretending he's a city squad player?

 

[chuffy]

Not so sure. Lamela and vertonghen and now Kane have all had big injuries this year just off the top of my head.

Sorry, just picked up on this a bit late.

Lamela is an odd one - there's been a lot of dispute as to whether or not he was actually "injured", or suffering from some sort of, perhaps, hypochondria/fibromyalgia. A lot of the talk leaking out was that he was fit last season, but that his mentality had a lot to do with why he wasn't playing. He had operations, but he's always been like that for Spurs - he spent a similar amount of time OOA in his first season with a 'mystery' back condition.

Vertonghen hasn't been injured this season, so you might be thinking of Alderweireld (who is a different story, and isn't playing due to contract dispute, so say). Kane gets injured quite regularly (at least twice a season), but each time it's because he's had his foot bent in half for going to 30/70 balls (determination/bravey/tenacity being one of his qualities that gets him goals, I guess). No amount of conditioning can give you rubber joints, and each time he's come back surprisingly quickly.

 

[Agent Blue]

This used to be a huge problem at spurs, to the point where Redknapp had to keep a second set of 11 players and still couldn't get by with 3 senior strikers and about 72 centre backs with an average age of 35.

Don't ask me how, but it's an issue solved (for the most part) by Pochettino. I think it could be argued that perhaps the fitter you are as a player, the smaller the likelihood you'll get injured? Just postulating, as fitness is the biggest change he brought in.

Of course injuries still happen, but they seem to be exponentially fewer in quantity and duration these days - but as has been previously mentioned, you tend not to notice the injury list of the teams you don't follow with such detail.

I seem to remember Saha doing his hamstring in the same game Yakubu did his Achilles when we played Spurs in 08.
There was also the Pistone fiasco around 06, just weeks after signing a new 2 year contract he injures his cruciate ligament and then never played for us again.
Dodgy injuries are part of the fabric of the club.........Move along now.....nothing to see here!

 

[chuffy]

I seem to remember Saha doing his hamstring in the same game Yakubu did his Achilles when we played Spurs in 08.
There was also the Pistone fiasco around 06, just weeks after signing a new 2 year contract he injures his cruciate ligament and then never played for us again.
Dodgy injuries are part of the fabric of the club.........Move along now.....nothing to see here!

I think it is something that gets managed/handled outside of managerial roles in some ways, and perhaps comes down to the facilities or attitude towards medical/sport sciences.

 

[Agent Blue]

I think it is something that gets managed/handled outside of managerial roles in some ways, and perhaps comes down to the facilities or attitude towards medical/sport sciences.

That's true, a lot more attention is paid to sport science nowadays, which has become an entity slightly outside of managerial focus. It wasn't that long ago that players could regularly be seen smoking at half time so we have moved on in terms of fitness and welfare, just not enough here, or that's how it feels.

 

[LEONARD]

Slipping on the gravy at Finch farm canteen floor.

 

[Aberblue]

I seem to remember Saha doing his hamstring in the same game Yakubu did his Achilles when we played Spurs in 08.
There was also the Pistone fiasco around 06, just weeks after signing a new 2 year contract he injures his cruciate ligament and then never played for us again.
Dodgy injuries are part of the fabric of the club.........Move along now.....nothing to see here!

We see our club's injuries, but I think most teams are equally affected. West Ham, for example, apparently have a lot of injuries.