Injury Thread or: "They stretch hamstrings, don't they?"

Gleninho :

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25870453

 

I think we should recall Andre Wisdom.

 

There's some talk of Allen not travelling with the squad due to a knock, Only on the echo and another small website though.

 

I heard that, too. Apparently on 15 of the first team squad are available-- the rest will be sprogs.

 

Yep, Ibe and Sama on the bench. Beats sending him out and just making a knock a bigger problem with the derby in a few days.

 

Getting Joe Allen back feels kinda like a new signing with how beat up our midfield is. Not to mention, he's so different from Hendo, Gerrard, and Coutinho that he can change the shape of our midfield if we need to do that. Feels good to have a strong option off the bench again.

 

http://www.football365.com/news/21554/9152527/Liverpool-Still-Missing-Agger-And-Sakho
"Daniel and Mamadou are not far off, but I'm not expecting to have either of them back for the weekend," Rodgers told the Liverpool Echo.

"They are not back in full training yet. Daniel will be back at some stage next week so he's progressing really well.

"But Sakho is still a bit away from coming back training."

 

can't wait to have Agger back to push Kolo to the bench.

 

At key stages in the last four weeks, the absences of Agger and Enrique have keenly been felt, and, now that we know, a fully fit Glen Johnson.

 

Johnson may have a hard job to take the position from Flanno

 

Flanno's job should be safe. I think it's actually Cissokho that Gleninho is going to have to work to beat for playing time.

 

Flanno is looking better and better all the time. I could see him marauding up and down the flank for years in Red. Perhaps he's the next Carra or Stevie in terms of coming through the system and staying at LFC for his entire career.

That would be awesome.

 

Plus Andre Wisdom is having a very strong loan spell, which means he's gonna be in our plans next year. No need to get a RB, and a LB is only necessary if Enrique isn't going to make a full recovery, because if he'll getvback to 100% then we can just make Cissokho permanent for cheap as our backup LB. I'd consider selling Martin Kelly to a mid-table side, and roll with Glen, Flanno, Wisdom on the right, and Enrique, Cissokho, Robinson on the left next year.

Spend our money on another winger and the midfield.

 

Its time to convert him to a center back. He has the size.

 

Yeah but Agger and Skrtel should still have at least another 2 good years left in them, Sakho is only what? 24? and from all accounts, Ilori is going to be one hell of a player. I guess we could convert him, however I don't see where he'll get the game time to adjust. I think making sure Sakho and Ilori settle in as our long term CB replacement pairing next season is far more important.

If we can pull it off during the offseason though and it works out, we won't have to re-sign or replace Toure.

 

I think there is merit in having a deep and wide squad. If he's good for a mid-table team, then he'd be a good squad player for us. I think injuries have held back his development but he's not a busted flush, yet.

 

He showed promise in his debut. Since then it's been one injury after the other. I respect what he's given to the club and wish him the best, but if we're honest there's really no place for him at Liverpool.

 

I still think he's got what it takes, just RB doesn't seem right for him. He's got some good height on him and is pretty strong defensively but going forward, he doesn't offer very much at all.

 

It's not that we doubt his ability. He's a talented player, but he just can't stay healthy, and he's been having issues achieving 100% fitness all season long. If we're moving on to bigger aspirations next year, it would be very difficult to rely on Kelly as one of our squad players. We've got 3 young defenders who are capable of being squad players coming back from loans this summer. With Wisdom returning and Johnson getting healthy this summer, Kelly would be 4th choice RB, and if we made him a CB, assuming we re-sign Kolo or look at a different cheap veteran option to be the #4 guy, he'd be the #5 CB. He can't be the #4 himself because of how injury-prone he is. We wouldn't be willing to take that risk.

 

Pretty sure Toure signed a two year deal.

 

Well that confirms it, and with Ilori coming back, there's really no room for Kelly at CB.

I mean, he can be the #6 CB or the #4 RB. It'd be best for both parties if he moved on.

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/daniel-agger-glen-johnson-back-6694338

Glen and dagger back in full training