2012/18 Atsuto Uchida @ Schalke 04 (GER/CL)

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/caicara-tipped-impress-schalke

Bad news for Uchida I guess. Will be interesting to see if he manages to keep Caicara out of the starting lineup.

 

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— FCシャルケ04 (@s04_jp) July 21, 2015

 

Uchida´s stats last season compared to Schalke´s 2 newly signed RB´s.

 

Injured?

 

No idea

 

He returned to training with the team in mid January but the pain is sometimes too much for him. It changes from day to day. Must be really hard for him but it's nice that his club helps him out a lot.

 

Breitenreiter revealed that Uchida is probably out for the entire season.

 

What the heck happened to him?

 

I really really hope this isn't a career ending injury, but by the day, it looks more and more like it. Even if not, likely won't be the same player again. Really shameful cuz he was well on way to become wc RB

 

That's really unfortunate for him, after being out injured for so long.

 

Will he be available when the new season starts?

 

Kickers say no. He's back from Japan but still recovering for "weeks" and definitely will miss the start of the season according to them. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...da-ist-zurueck-und-faellt-noch-lange-aus.html

 

I doubt he'll reach that level again or that he will be useful for Japanese NT in the future. Not that he will be bad but he had the worst kind of injury when his best years should come. Still kudos to Schalke for letting him recover on their paycheck. But it's his limit I'm afraid.

 

Damn it is taking so long.

 

I think he will be useful as a sb in whatever JNT lineup in Russia 2018.

 

He's picked up another injury and is back in Japan for recovery. Doesn't look good, but Schalke are not going to give up on him so easily. He's one of their most popular players, even among the German fans.

 

They have a contract anyway

 

They could have terminated it long time ago. That's great how much attention he's receiving there. A sad story but it's not his fault that he was born with this body which can't keep up with his head in 100%.

 

How?

 

Usually they go for contract cancellation on mutual agreement. Schalke is big enough to pay him all those money but instead they're helping him to recover.

 

Sure, but there would be zero reason for Uchida to take a haircut on his remaining salary balance. It's not like S04 is doing him some kind of favor by "helping" him recover.