FrankDrebin
Don't call me Shirley
Atleast we have Lindelof.
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I love how anyone that's not a reactionary whiner is mockingly labelled as a "top red" these days.Trouble is, that’s something a lot of top reds are telling people to do lately whilst we are in the final remaining days of a window that to date has been a farce.
The window hasn't been that bad. Having your new CF, new CM, main CB, main LB, backup LB all get long term injuries is unfortunate.Lots of clubs are dealing with injuries. What's been atrocious is our joke of a transfer window.
But I think we all know it'll be more than 6 weeks by the end of the season and that does have to be planned for.A six week injury really shouldn't dictate squad planning decisions.
Sure, but that's a different matter. Varane's injury proneness is already known. Which means one of two things has to be true. Either:But I think we all know it'll be more than 6 weeks by the end of the season and that does have to be planned for.
Or we could just sign a younger, really good CB who isn't injury prone.
He's squad player now and when he was a regular starter playing alongside Maguire made him look worse than he was. Tail end of last season he filled in well for the injuries to first choice centre backs.Lindelof will do a job alright....not a very good one though.
We did anyway in fairness, he can’t play Wednesday-Saturday anymore I don’t think. We apparently had Kim Min Jae wrapped up but money being tight, we couldn’t get it over the line.With this latest injury, I'm convinced we need a new starting centre back. He's just too unreliable at this point.
The less said about his backup, the better.
Yeah and McT made Fred look worse and Martial made Lingard look worse, we all know the drill. In reality Lindelof is Lindelof and he is good at times and bad in others.He's squad player now and when he was a regular starter playing alongside Maguire made him look worse than he was. Tail end of last season he filled in well for the injuries to first choice centre backs.
Harry Maguire's refusal to leave has fecked us over. He'll get a few games in the next few weeks I reckon. I'm almost certain he'll feck something up on the field.We did anyway in fairness, he can’t play Wednesday-Saturday anymore I don’t think. We apparently had Kim Min Jae wrapped up but money being tight, we couldn’t get it over the line.
With this latest injury, I'm convinced we need a new starting centre back. He's just too unreliable at this point.
The less said about his backup, the better.
And somehow we could not sell our project to Kim Min-jae, when everyone and their mother know that Varane would eventually get injured and thus offer plenty of opportunities for Kim to play regardless of form. What the feck?This is why a player like KMJ would have made sense. We all know Varane is going to spend periods of the season out with injury and that's likely to get worse with each passing year. A player that could play/rotate with him and gradually replace him would have been ideal.
During the last three seasons at Real he missed eight matches due to injuries. That’s 2.66 per season on average. I wouldn’t say that he had an extensive history of fitness issues when we signed him.I love Varane, brilliant player with immaculate resume, pedigree. Like him as a person, as well. But I also really don't like unreliable players in terms of availability/fitness(my personal bias). I know that's not his fault. If I was a manager or director of football I would avoid players with history of fitness issues or some potential health problems like the plague. I value availability of players a lot.
Hoped the plan was to buy a quality center back to rotate with him because of his fitness issues.
You feel sorry for him? He spent 90m on Antony and 55m on Mount.Only just found out he's injured.
Feel sorry for Ten Hag, the team is crumbling around him and we've not got a pot to piss in, so we'll end up with a couple Weghorst type garbage signings to bolster the squad
Sold a dud again. No good being fit for 1/3 of a season.
Even if we overpaid not sure he would have joined us ahead of BayernEveryone knew Varane has injury issues. We should have over paid for Kim keeping that in mind and the fact that we have to do so to win such battles with successful clubs like Bayern.
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That's better news. International break next week too so I'll be optimistic and say he only misses Arsenal and Brighton.Tweet
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