You sir, are a clear representative of what's wrong with humanity.
Official: Phil Jones will leave United at the end of the season
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Having holes drilled in your bones and trying all the treatments he could is the square root of feck all these days? Embarrassing “United” fans
His career wasn't really ruined in a certain sense, though, was it? It's not like he was forced to retire at 23 or something. He's been on a paid medical leave until 31 - basically the end of most players careers.
Yeah... Robson and Phil Jones. That's an accurate comparison
Yeah because questioning a player who has milked United for years for tens of millions of £ is all that's wrong with humanity, not Putin, not Assad, not Kim Jong, people who don't feel sorry for Phil Jones are the serious problem for humanity.
I'll puke if this guy gets a heroic send off on the field when legends like Keane and Rio never did.
Wish him all the best, sad it didn’t work out for him, had so much potential. Hopefully can progress onto other things.
Some nasty people in this thread
Some nasty people in this thread
Jones has been lucky in that sense that he's had a contract during these terrible injuries - to ease off the financial pain, but that doesn't negate the fact that he's been very unlucky to not be able to fulfill his career and probably had to fight a very long stretch of mental hardness as well. Most these people complaining are probably very young and can't fully get a grasp of it yet, but you should just hope that you won't encounter long-term health issues that includes getting constant medication to pains that can lead to addictions of not so happy kind.
Money doesn't buy you happiness, otherwise you would never see rock stars dying to suicides or overdoses... most complainers here think that just because he was paid well, everything is okay.
I've personally been recovering from a surgery for a year now and it's been very difficult and I've tried to avoid most of the toughest medicine just because of the horrid side effects from the long term use to be able to go back to normal, I can relate a bit here, thing is it would suck as much as it does now even if I was super rich.
Money doesn't buy you happiness, otherwise you would never see rock stars dying to suicides or overdoses... most complainers here think that just because he was paid well, everything is okay.
I've personally been recovering from a surgery for a year now and it's been very difficult and I've tried to avoid most of the toughest medicine just because of the horrid side effects from the long term use to be able to go back to normal, I can relate a bit here, thing is it would suck as much as it does now even if I was super rich.
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Judging by some of the comments on here and on Twitter, you’d think Phil Jones has had a similar or worser damaging impact at this club in the same way the Glazers have brought. It isn’t even on a comparable scale.
the whole saga for him is both odd and unfortunate....he was early on a brilliant defender and then yes his body just gave out. honestly, he signed a contract and the club gave him a contract that he had every right to see fulfilled. i think at the same time most fans think at some point he should have just got his contract bought up full well knowing he'd never play again.
Shame his body just couldn't do it. On the rare occasions he could play in the last few years he actually performed surprisingly well for someone who should've been so rusty. He never seemed to lose his professionalism despite the ever decreasing likelihood it was ever gonna happen for him.
Really think it should be you.
Glad to see the number 4 shirt vacant again
You are actually pathetic. Call yourself a United fan, yeah right.
Pathetic
He started at Anfield for Ralph, after the good Wolves performance
Guess your 8 year wait will go on then.
Earning money doesn't mean somebody is happy and healthy.
If the game is going well or we have made 4th etc i would love him to come on for a couple of minutes
Have you had a similar experience to Phil in terms of the sheer number of injuries that have had a lasting, damaging impact on your body resulting in your physical, mental & emotional health taking a massive hit? Anytime you fell you are on the verge of recovery, your body plays up again and it puts all your progress back to square one yet again on countless occasions. Surgery after surgery which I couldn’t imagine going through. Because if you haven’t then your post is just beyond laughable to put it nicely.
How much money you earn means Jack shit when you don’t have your health and your body gives up on you resulting in you not able do the job you’ve worked your whole childhood life for. Money doesn’t guarantee happiness.
If you still need some more education on the damaging impact long term injuries can have on players then listen to the following for some real home truths on the damaging impact it can do to any professional athlete:
https://play.acast.com/s/undrcosh/malcolm-christie-part-2-broken-dreams
https://www.nutmegmagazine.co.uk/podcast/player-take-over-michael-devlin-tommie-hoban-pt-2/
Good luck Phil.
It sounds like he's been through absolute hell with those surgeries and recovery. The injuries were an awful shame. For years he was our best defender whenever he did get on the pitch.
It sounds like he's been through absolute hell with those surgeries and recovery. The injuries were an awful shame. For years he was our best defender whenever he did get on the pitch.
I haven't got a bad word to say about Phil Jones. Great player who had his career decimated by injury.
Thanks for the memories Phil - good, bad and hilarious. Wish for his and United's sake the career wasn't filled with injuries but such is pro sports.
Gave everything he had for the limited time he could play. More than can be said for some of the shower that have played last few years
I’ve had the displeasure of reading some ignorant dogshit comments on twitter or some social media “thing” criticising him for not “taking the opportunity” to leave and play more football instead of “choosing the paycheque”.
Do they really not know he’s been injured. If ever he was fit enough to leave the club, he was actually in contention to play for us. But for injury he would have been a regular here and when he was injured he had no chance of being taken on by another club.
The whole saga has been very sad and I just hope he can keep his chin up. I thank him for the good performances and for the laughter he gave us.
Do they really not know he’s been injured. If ever he was fit enough to leave the club, he was actually in contention to play for us. But for injury he would have been a regular here and when he was injured he had no chance of being taken on by another club.
The whole saga has been very sad and I just hope he can keep his chin up. I thank him for the good performances and for the laughter he gave us.
I doubt he thought he had no future at the club. He was probably working as hard as he could behind the scenes to get better. What would you expect him to rip up his contract and try to move somewhere while injured?
I know it seems like he was always injured but it wasn't the case. He did string together months and even years when he wasn't, but invariably he was shite and wouldn't get picked. It was these times when a different character would have moved on, like Smalling did.
When he was fit he was in contention. Often described as the best defender at the club.
That’s complete and utter bollox.
I don’t remember him being consistently shit. He always seemed to put in a shift if memory serves. I am getting older though so maybe looking through rose tinted spectacles!
When he had been out injured for a while he was.
The story usually went as follows. Whilst injured he was hyped and hyped as the next Duncan Edwards and so on. When he came back he would put in a solid performance that would be described as spectacular. Within a couple of games of that he would have an absolute howler and get dropped. Then he would get injured in training, and we'd be back to step 1.
I think he was only described as the next Duncan Edwards once by Fergie when he was first signed. Nobody else said it since.
Some fecking horrible cnuts in this thread. The lad gave his all for us and had his career destroyed by injuries. Nothing more to it. Hope he can find some play time at the end of his career now.
I am still rooting for Phil to outlast Glazers at Man Utd
Yeah you're right, my mistake. Worst thing about that is I actually looked it up before posting, but read up the list instead of down
He made three more partial appearances in April and May, the Liverpool one you mentioned being the first of them. Of all the games to get dropped back into the team, three months later!
His last appearance was in fact as a late sub in the 3-0 home win against Brentford. At least it ended on a good note.
With all due respect to Fergie, I don't think he ever watched Duncan Edwards play
My grandad did. He always said he was the best he’d ever seen in 90 years.
Two things can be right.
Yes he has suffered a lot, but he has also been lucky enough to earn 20m+ throughout his suffering. A large majority of people would take the 4 years of suffering to earn £20m - rightly or wrongly.
We have played 671 games since he signed. He has been injured for 205 of them. He has not been selected for 237. That is not a player who was in regular contention.
Wish him all the best. Was so excited when we signed him. In his first season with us, I loved how he carried the ball up the field. I was convinced he would be a very special player sometime.
Read the first couple of comments on Twitter under his post. What is this shit, it's nauseating. You sometimes gotta hate the internet for turning out the worst in people.
Read the first couple of comments on Twitter under his post. What is this shit, it's nauseating. You sometimes gotta hate the internet for turning out the worst in people.
You can’t build a defence around a player who is chronically unable to stay fit, so it’s understandable he slipped down the pecking order. The “complete and utter bollox” bit of your post was the notion that he was “invariably shite” when he actually had plenty of good performances. He even established functional partnerships at various times. The “Rojones” centre back pairing being one obvious example (and Rojo really was a borderline liability) Trying to paint him as someone who was only ever shite makes even less sense when you consider his last ever performance for the club, when he was one of the best players on the pitch.
The inability for some people on here to see things from someone else’s perspective never ceases to amaze me. So much judgement and no empathy without ever knowing the full details of something.
He’s probably had some incredibly dark days where he just went home and cried after another gruelling day of physio away from his family. So many operations, failed comebacks, people mocking him, etc…
His contract was on the club. Can you blame him for never giving up on his dream club? If I got sick and couldn’t work I would still take my pay, and I would expect them to look after me. It’s what happens in life and if you’ve made a commitment to someone you honour it.
He’s probably had some incredibly dark days where he just went home and cried after another gruelling day of physio away from his family. So many operations, failed comebacks, people mocking him, etc…
His contract was on the club. Can you blame him for never giving up on his dream club? If I got sick and couldn’t work I would still take my pay, and I would expect them to look after me. It’s what happens in life and if you’ve made a commitment to someone you honour it.
Not to mention that the “someone” he committed to was the club he was desperate to play for above all others. Which is apparently just another reason to shit on him for fans of that club. Go figure.