This is not an opinion thing, it's a hard number. You can just compare missed games from players overall and compare. What I find fascinating is that it's basically the same players that are healthy and the same players that are injured. Maybe the truth isn't the way the club treats players, maybe it's the fact that we don't realize that some of them are simply less reliable than others by default. We signed Trent knowing that he has chronic issues. He missed considerable action pretty much every year for the past few of them, but you look away when you basically celebrated him signing. Look at how many players failed their medicals this summer.
Wel no, it's not objectively a "hard number", since the quality of the injured player factors in, as does multiple injuries to one area of the pitch, depleting the depth chart until you are forced to play players out of position rather than simply playing their backup. Including loans doesn't exactly help visibility on that table, but regardless, the right-side (i.e. current state) of that table looks a lot worse for us than it does for Barca.
Trent wasn't injury prone at Liverpool. He played 38, 36, 32, 37, 28, 33 PL games in last 6 years. That's one season he missed significant games out of 6 years. If 32 or 33 league games means injury prone, we probably haven't had players that aren't injury prone either.
Six players are out due to injuries during a very important stretch of the season. What's wrong with our medical staff?
Injury prevention is no joke. We don’t have capable staff to factor that in. Honestly, just a total embarrassment and the club wants to win trophies while we have 6 key players out in most important part of the season. We just wreck playing careers if anything.
Ah, I guess health and physical ability is determined by how well you can kick a football. Injuries and games missed are easy to keep track of.
I can show the "good luck with the cripple" messages I got in my group chat. His physical issues were being "managed" at Liverpool.
The guy ARRIVED injured and we paid a bonus for it. It's comical how resistant people are to admit that we once again got fascinated by a star name and ignored all red flags like we did with Hazard. If Somebody would smash a pool stick on a players kneecap, he would pass a medical in madrid as long as the name holds weight
From a certain point on he routinely missed double digit games every season. How do you sign a player that relies on pace and acceleration that had his knees ran over by a bus. I have no idea.
Soon we’ll be saying we shouldn’t sign a player who once fell out of a tree when they were kid, playing in the park. Utter nonsense.
No one really, just not guys that have multiple muscle injuries and knee tears. I include our own players in that. No way does Carvajal pass a thorough medical at this point. No way.
Our best player doesn’t trust our medical team. Says it all. The problem we have at this club and have had for a number of years now is that we have a mediocre medical department and fitness trainers who are clueless in the field they work in. Players go off the orders of the above, they don’t just go out on a whim.
Boniface was agreed upon to transfer to Milan. When Milan did the medical, they practically told him to apply for disability benefits. The player got angry, the agent blamed everybody, was claiming this is all a scheme, then suddenly images appeared, and to be honest, I've never seen this kind of horrible scarring on a knee, ever. Horrific stuff. If this is a high profile player coming to Madrid, we sign him. A guy without the push and the cache of a big agent/representation gets tossed aside and told he's useless. I still wonder how a guy can look at himself knowing his injury and surgery history and the results provided and blamed everybody else instead. My point isn't that we're perfect. But some players are not built like that. We signed Franco injured as well. What is the club doing at those medicals?
Well we weren't supporting the guy. Even with that he still found ways to get results. The irony is how people swore any guy would be an upgrade and THE guy came in and couldn't make it to February.
Anyone hear Bale talk about his back Injury during his last interview? He said a lot of his back issues which plagued his time in Madrid were from a back injury when he was 18. Everyone knew about it he just learned how to manage it. Everyone there were shocked Madrid still paid all that money knowing full well how serious that injury was.
Completely agree on this. Solari to run the sporting direction… a substitute teacher as manager of the first team. Mediocre players making even more mediocre executives. How is the biggest club in the world run by such amateurs? Utter clownshow. Juni Calafat needs to leave but not for ********ing Solari. Get in someone who knows what they are doing like Luis Campos. Maybe Txiki from City even though that would be a long shot.
RM didn't care about all the horrible injuries R9 had at Inter. Signed Bale when he was 23 so was able to get few impactful seasons still.
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Both are bad choices. like choosing between bad and bad. We will rely on Rudiger. Even he is prone to brain farts.
We don't have to go back that far, Mendy and Ceballos were renewed despite their horrible injury records with the club. Konaté was (and reportedly still is) a target even with his bad injury CV. Rodri is a main regardless of his ACL at 28/29.
Saw a pretty explosive interview that Xavi just did about Barca first convincing him to stay and then running a media campaign to chase him out, going to players saying he wants to sell them etc. and kicking him out of the club. A small part of me feels bad for him, sounds like he was treated really badly, but that is Laporta in a nutshell. The guy must have sold his soul to the devil to get the likes of Messi and Yamal spawning every few years. I think we’re a bit more organized but I can totally understand why Zidane for example can’t handle more than a couple years at a time. It seems like an unbelievably toxic environment to work in club management in La Liga. Just speaks volumes about how well Carlo handled these things. And never said a bad word. The guy was forged by the fires of Berlusconi, this stuff is nothing for him