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dagraham

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Sep 20, 2005
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If Richy get injured in Jan we will have zero strikers fit fml! 🙏

What would we do?

Kulu false 9 or Johnson up top?

We have to sign another attacking player early in Jan, that and a CB need to be signed first week of Jan if we are going to act like a club that wants to win.

I’ve been banging the drum that we need another forward anyway in Jan, so hopefully this gets us to move.

Gutted for Veliz. Our luck with injuries is farcical now.
 

ljinko888

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May 17, 2016
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Rotten luck since he would have had much more game time and possibly starting in the league for the first time with Son off to the Asia Cup.
 

mil1lion

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May 7, 2004
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So good of him to carry on and put the team first. However wish one of the senior players told him to go down already. No point making it worse by playing on. We have to protect the player better.
 

jonnyp

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Jun 11, 2006
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What a freak injury, cannot believe the kid's bad luck... Just when he was starting to get game time as well.
 

Trix

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Two things, firstly I truly commend his commitment and bravery. Secondly he was stupid to do it, and hopefully he will be read the riot act by the medical team. There was a young lad a good few years back that ended his career trying to play on like that with ligament damage.
 

mil1lion

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Two things, firstly I truly commend his commitment and bravery. Secondly he was stupid to do it, and hopefully he will be read the riot act by the medical team. There was a young lad a good few years back that ended his career trying to play on like that with ligament damage.
Yeah but he's just a kid, I really think one of the outfield players needs to get him to go down
 

Ghost Hardware

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Yeah but he's just a kid, I really think one of the outfield players needs to get him to go down
Yeah this for me, he obviously knows that there’s no subs left and doesn’t want to let the team down. Yes he should have just gone down but it’s also on the senior players to get him to go off as you say.
 

Yid-ol

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Jan 16, 2006
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It was also good to see Lo Celso, Richarlison and Bentancur all go to him after he came off to help him/ console him.
 

Legacy

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Mar 29, 2007
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Two things, firstly I truly commend his commitment and bravery. Secondly he was stupid to do it, and hopefully he will be read the riot act by the medical team. There was a young lad a good few years back that ended his career trying to play on like that with ligament damage.
There's an entire coaching and medical team just idly watching from the sidelines while he hobbles up and down the pitch for 3 minutes, looking over at them several times. They should be screaming at him to stay down.
 

Trix

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Jul 29, 2004
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There's an entire coaching and medical team just idly watching from the sidelines while he hobbles up and down the pitch for 3 minutes, looking over at them several times. They should be screaming at him to stay down.
They were.
 

Sophos151

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Yeah but he's just a kid, I really think one of the outfield players needs to get him to go down
Think Lo Celso was shouting at him from the touchline saying that. Players on the pitch maybe too caught up in the match to notice as it was getting intense?
 

Meercat

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Jul 4, 2008
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It also looked like Ben tried to say go down, and gestured to the touchline so I don’t think it’s fair to say the older players didn’t try to look out for him.
 

Tucker

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Jul 15, 2013
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The foolhardiness of youth. Have to admire his grit to try and continue. Let’s hope it’s not as bad as feared.
 

HildoSpur

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Oct 1, 2005
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The kid has got guts and is clearly a great team player but that was a bit foolish from him. Hopefully he is ok. I think he is going to be a star for us.
 
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