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Heartbroken for him.
As poor as the management and leadership are, this is probably the unluckiest season with injuries in modern football history.
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Heartbroken for him.
As poor as the management and leadership are, this is probably the unluckiest season with injuries in modern football history.
The medical team fall into the management side & it’s been an absolute shit show for a while now.
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Poor kid. Lost his chance at a World Cup. Must be devastating for him.
It’s modern football; makes them then beaks them .
God willing he comes back from this .
You can’t ‘run off’ an ACL injury!
What were they thinking about?
We've already sacked the medical team - it hasn't fixed anything. So I think there's broadly three options here (with some combination being possible);
1) Both the old and new medical teams are useless/incompetent, despite presumably having qualifications, experience, and track records elsewhere.
2) The medical team themselves are not incompetent, but are operating in an environment that leads to poor decision making. High staff turnover i.e. previous sackings creates high pressure, leading to players being rushed back and a reluctance to immediately recommend a played is taken off.
3) The medical team is fine and something else is to blame for our injuries e.g. lingering effects of previously poor medical treatment, tactical/training choices of current or previous managers, the retractable pitch theory, or bad luck.
No way of knowing from the outside, but for me 1) is the least compelling of those explanations. I don't see how 2) wouldn't play at least some role - we and therefore the physios know that another ACL will lead to fans calling for them to be sacked. And we know the board often sack staff when the fans demand it to protect themselves. Psychologically, if they know another ACL means they're out of a job, of course their first instinct is going to be to treat it as though it's literally anything else and therefore try to have him run it off.
1) Both the old and new medical teams are useless/incompetent, despite presumably having qualifications, experience, and track records elsewhere.
2) The medical team themselves are not incompetent, but are operating in an environment that leads to poor decision making. High staff turnover i.e. previous sackings creates high pressure, leading to players being rushed back and a reluctance to immediately recommend a played is taken off.
3) The medical team is fine and something else is to blame for our injuries e.g. lingering effects of previously poor medical treatment, tactical/training choices of current or previous managers, the retractable pitch theory, or bad luck.
No way of knowing from the outside, but for me 1) is the least compelling of those explanations. I don't see how 2) wouldn't play at least some role - we and therefore the physios know that another ACL will lead to fans calling for them to be sacked. And we know the board often sack staff when the fans demand it to protect themselves. Psychologically, if they know another ACL means they're out of a job, of course their first instinct is going to be to treat it as though it's literally anything else and therefore try to have him run it off.
They don’t think, that’s the problem.
Yet I’m sure we’ll be bemoaning bad luck.
Even tho this has been happening for years at the club.
We’ve had more ACL’s this year than home wins .
We've had what, four ACL tears this year? Just unbelievably bad luck.
Feel awful for Xavi for missing the WC. He may not have been great this year, but he's been one of the few trying every match.
Also puts the club in a shit position because he's out most if not all of next season, and if we go down, it'll be impossible to shift his wages, even with the relegation reduction.
What's the actual science behind ACLs? We seem to get more than everyone else. Is it bad luck or what? Obviously this is the third one in the last year where we've told the player to play on with if which Obviously doesn't help and makes our medical team look stupid. But why do we get so many?
4th one isn't it? Drag, Maddison, Odobert and now Xavi.
No idea what causes them, we're obviously doing something wrong as a club, seems like we don't have a duty of care for our players.
This injury is as much on the referees. You are literally allowed to foul Xavi almost as much as you want and they don’t give a foul. While Saka goes over with a stiff wind and he always gets a free kick.
Post removed.Don’t forget Rodrigo’s under Conte.
‘We’?
‘Our’?
Lmfao
ok