Fuerza, Mili 💪🏻. Te sabes el camino de vuelta, lo recorriste una vez y lo vas a volver a hacer. ❤️ @edermilitao pic.twitter.com/snVwDotX2k— Sergio Ramos (@SergioRamos) November 9, 2024
Feel horrible for Militao. Hope he can keep his head up and start the recovery soon enough. He deserves better after working so hard to come back from the last injury. Damn.
Militao has a rather intense style of play. Wonder if he can adapt to a different style like Pepe did in his latter years when he lost that extra yard of pace. If he can do that, might help to play at a good level after two ACLs.
He is so depending on his pace. Makes one think that he wouldn't be able to get back to his best unless he changes his playing style as mentioned above.
We've essentially lost two top quality/world class CBs to ACL injuries in Militao and Alaba. Really rotten luck, almost unprecedented. I would say that at Militao's age and with the level of professionalism that he's shown to date, he could recover well from this, however, I hear the severity of his ACL injury is bad. Very disheartening.
Obviously his knees are weak spots. Usually ACL injuries are a result of a strong force, like in Carvajal's case. But he wasn't tackled, didn't overextend, nothing. The knee just caved in.
I don't want to sound heartless and I want to be respectful. While it may not be the best moment to address this topic, Real Madrid operates as a professional football club and needs to consider this situation. We have to accept the fact that his career at this level probably just finished. Unfortunately for us, he just renewed with us. Alaba also had a contract in hand. We will have two deadweights on the team.
What's this supposed to mean? Militao has a contract until 2028 so there's nothing to discuss. He's entitled to every penny in his current contract.
Hoping for full recovery! But he's done as a player, 2 ACL's in both knees is a career-ender at this level. See Jack Wilshere.
As much as we'd like for him to return to top levels again let's be realistic; he's going to be 3rd/4th choice for us when he returns from injury.
He should be penciled in as a 3rd/4th CB when he returns even if he performs well because it would just be ridiculous to have him starting every games with his injury history. Rushing players back is how they got in this mess.
Can anyone shed some light on how these injuries happen? Carvajal for example, it's pretty obvious. Alaba and this time round with Alaba it doesn't seem like you can point to a specific incident. Nothing seemed to get stuck or twisted, Militao knee just seemingly went.
Obviously no sense in "what ifs" at this point but I found his continuous playing time after an ACL worrying this year and the reason why he looked not that great at times. I feel like a player should be slowly (meaning months) integrated into a squad after this type of injury.
The club should’ve had one more reliable CB going into this season, period. Vallejo doesn’t count so even with Tchou as an option we should’ve gotten a younger CB yo deputize and spell Rudiger and Militao.
Club pretty much told Carlo to count on Jacobo & Raul Asencio and Joan too before ACL. Truth is club and Carlo are on different page when it comes to using cantera options. Meanwhile Flick had to promote Casado, Bernal and Gerrard Martin this summer without any internal cold war. There might be an image that RM is all about signing external players for every spot, but I don't think club management writes off cantera if there's a talent there. It was after 250 ME mega summer in 2009 that Valdano publicly bashed Pellegrini for not bringing on couple of cantera kids after RM took 2-0 lead vs Deportivo. Florentino stopped signing "squad option" since Pedro Leon in 2010 pretty much. Raul Albiol was replaced by Nacho, Higuain with Morata as soon as soon as Carlo came in as he won't publicly complain about such things as opposed to Mou who went on "hunting with dogs vs cats" rant after only having Benzema as #9 and got Adebayor on loan due to that public drama.
🤍 Eder Militão's wife on IG: "Trying to make his days lighter." pic.twitter.com/uTkoTrB9GZ— Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) November 10, 2024
Nobody that has any heart and drive to succeed sits out more than necessary. There's guys playing various sports injured or concussed. No player is at "100%" once the season starts. I'm kind of angry at this because it is common place but always ignored. Players are not playing healthy, they play when they are ready. I've had Müller-Wohlfahrt tell me that and he's a hall of fame tier football doc. Clubs don't ask the medical team to get the player healthy, they tell them to get them ready.
Militao could have skipped Copa America. He went from starting low intensity dead rubber La Liga games at the end of last season to Copa America games every 3 days. But skipping Copa would have made him a villain in Brazil so it's understandable. And tbf, Brazil NT did give him rest during both international breaks meanwhile Rodrygo has been playing through muscle issues for both club and country. Most top level players hate sitting out unless there's no other choice.
I was looking at transfermarkt. Eder started and played 5 out of the last 9 La Liga games when he came back and the 5 were all at the end of the season. Then went and played all of Brazil's games during the summer. Then came back to Real and played non-stop until the injury. In hind sight, he definitely should have skipped the Copa America. He ended up missing the pwntly that outed the team too lol.
So if he skips 5 games, he's completely cured, his ligaments form a steel armor and he never gets injured again? I simply don't think the sport takes logenvity and health as serious as they should. The athletes themselves don't either.