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He's still too young to lead the line tho.I would certainly rather count on a 20 year old than a 36 year old.
He's still too young to lead the line tho.I would certainly rather count on a 20 year old than a 36 year old.
Yeah.. brutal stuff. Didn't offer anything for the team - and couldn't make up for it when the chances came to him.That's as bad as I've seen him play all season.
For 12 games?He's still too young to lead the line tho.
What 12 games?For 12 games?
Zlatan has been awful for the last few weeks. The Chelsea game showed how we need to play against Spurs, City and Arsenal and then the EL games. You can't play that with Zlatan.
Extend the loan?If he's done his ligament, well definitely extend the loan to give him time to recover. And rightly so.
Mourinho has to learn to sub him.
Extend his loan just so we can pay him while he recovers? What? He's not crippled and we're not a charity ffs.If he's done his ligament, well definitely extend the loan to give him time to recover. And rightly so.
Mourinho has to learn to sub him.
He's on a 1 year contract, not a loan.If he's done his ligament, well definitely extend the loan to give him time to recover. And rightly so.
Mourinho has to learn to sub him.
Well obviously the best thing would be if he is okay after a weekend, it's a win-win then.Yeah. It's good he got injured and potentially out for many months just because we could win a qf we probably would have won anyway in the end. Fantastic logic, but you are happy. We won and Zlatan got injured.
I was a big critic of his tonight but that pass was exquisite.The beautiful pass to Rashford pretty much the only positive tonight.
And there's every reason to. His finishing was absolutely abysmal.I was a big critic of his tonight but that pass was exquisite.
Dude one is 19 the other one has been doing it for 15-20 years..I doubt he will play again this season. If he does he will be lucky. But people calling him for missing chances... Rashford missed about the same amount if not more!
I think he's had many games like tonight this season. Some he's scored in which has masked the issue, others have somehow gone unnoticed by many. I think the performance at the weekend has just caused a few to take notice of the issues.He suddenly started playing like a 35 year old tonight. Not at the races.
Ugh, a really awful way to go out to be honest. Totally gutted for him, the best I can really offer from my armchair GP office is that there was no 'plant and twist' in that hyper-extension so it may just be a medial/lat collateral strain at the absolute best for him. The twisting is where the AC/PC come into play. The knee joint tends to protect pretty well from a hyperextension when there is hardly any 'plant and twist'. I hope he isn't at least out for the final if we make it. That would be some absolutely awful luck.As much as I like the big man's style of play I really do think this might be the end for him at this club, at least as a starter. And this has nothing to do with his potential long-term injury.
You have to think just how hard the recovery-time for a 36yo at that size/build would be as well. Getting banged up all game must take its toll on him in one way or another, I don't really doubt that the killer instinct you speak if is still in him. It just doesn't translate through his body well enough for him.At first I was thinking that his recent poor performances might be because of fatigue, but now I really do think it might be the easiest answer, age. Even he has to face what all other players do, age has unfortunately caught up with him. He still has a lot of good things in his play, but makes more mistakes than usual. And the 'killer-instinct' doesn't seem to be as strong as before.