[Update 378] ez14ginola re: Modric's Injury

[Gedi]

It's a blow but we shouldn't go panic buying a 'replacement' and just concentrate on any positions we were already intending to fill.

 

[yanno]

If unfortunately it is a break, then I'm sure the club won't want the news getting out immediately as clubs could easily look to put an extra million or two on our "long list" of potential LMs: eg Martin Petrov and Niko Kranjcar.

Remember how the extent of Defoe's toe injury in January was played down until we'd tied up the deal for Robbie Keane...

Personally, I don't particularly want either Petrov or Kranjcar, but if Luka is out for, say, 8-10 weeks, then I wouldn't be surprized to see the club go for one of them. And I'm sure we'd want to pay fair market price, rather than a figure inflated because we're suddenly "desperate" to get another LM in.

Of course, the other possibility is that the O'Hara paperwork hasn't gone through or we have some means of recalling him without jeopardising the Boateng deal.

 

[jrio]

If unfortunately it is a break, then I'm sure the club won't want the news getting out immediately as clubs could easily look to put an extra million or two on our "long list" of potential LMs: eg Martin Petrov and Niko Kranjcar.

Remember how the extent of Defoe's toe injury in January was played down until we'd tied up the deal for Robbie Keane...

Personally, I don't particularly want either Petrov or Kranjcar, but if Luka is out for, say, 8-10 weeks, then I wouldn't be surprized to see the club go for one of them. And I'm sure we'd want to pay fair market price, rather than a figure inflated because we're suddenly "desperate" to get another LM in.

Of course, the other possibility is that the O'Hara paperwork hasn't gone through or we have some means of recalling him without jeopardising the Boateng deal.

Modric's injury won't affect the price other clubs will want for other players in a similar position. Clubs don't value players on that basis. We needed to get a CB in with Woody and Daws out, but Toon accepted 8m for Bassong, when Shearer had been talking about valuing him nearer 15m. You might have expected Toon to want 12m but they didn't.

 

[Breezer]

Modric stood up and then went down again, on the radio it said he walked off the pitch....he hasn't broken his leg

I broke my foot 3 months ago. I walked to my car and drove to A&E, before they told me my foots broken!!!!

 

[pistolpat]

If it is an injury to the right side of the calf (assuming it's his right leg) and its a fracture, he may have just broken his fibula high up, which is the non weight bearing bone in your leg.

Won't stop you from walking around as its not involved in weight bearing that high up in the leg and will just feel like a corked calf but won't be able to run for 4-6 weeks so that it can heal which would make the 8 week time period sound pretty plausible.

 

[Sir Henry]

Can't see his leg being broken/fractured/chipped at all. He was kicked on the calf, and Luka's calf are bigger than most geezers thighs. If the impact was enough through his calf and all that muscle and tissue etc then his bone must be as brittle as an 80 yo's. I cant see it myself.

p.s. Breezer, I recognise that tat, that you on Lal Hardy's site ?

 

[pistolP]

Modric stood up and then went down again, on the radio it said he walked off the pitch....he hasn't broken his leg

I broke my leg(clean break), walked off the pitch and went home. During the night while sleeping, i turned and screamed the house down and was severe pain. To cut the story short, went hospital after ex-ray, it turned out that t & f bones on my right leg.

 

[kcmei]

if it was a clean break how did u manage to walk home and not notice bits hanging off?

 

[pistolP]

those who are insisting that it cannot be a broken leg as he walked off are simply wrong. a broken leg does not mean that the bone has snapped.

Mine snapped and i walked off the pitch and it took 9 months for the bone to heal.

 

[kcmei]

drink more milk my friend

 

[pistolP]

if it was a clean break how did u manage to walk home and not notice bits hanging off?

Clean break means that you can stick it back together, it will fit back together but still broken. It was quite painful and i thought it was severe bruising when i informed my team mates that i had a broken leg, no one took me serious.

 

[pistolP]

drink more milk my friend

I needed to eat more calcium rich food like dairy products but i was avoiding them in order to stay lean and fit for football.

 

[kcmei]

must have hurts alot. Much like the eduardo one?

 

[pistolP]

must have hurts alot. Much like the eduardo one?

Eduardo's one was something else, his bone was sticking out for all to see.

 

[Naj 1]

You can quite easily fracture your fibula and walk on it... It will be painful but doable. A fracture of the tibia would make walking near impossible. Nevertheless, watching the way he got injured, it is unlikely he has a fracture, more likely severe muscle bruising. Well that's my 2 bob worth as a surgical trainee

 

[mr.sze]

it looked like some sort of ligament injuries IMO

 

[walworthyid]

You can quite easily fracture your fibula and walk on it... It will be painful but doable. A fracture of the tibia would make walking near impossible. Nevertheless, watching the way he got injured, it is unlikely he has a fracture, more likely severe muscle bruising. Well that's my 2 bob worth as a surgical trainee

That would be my take on it as well. Deep bruising that will be sore for a week or 2.

 

[Alfieconnman]

Spurs confirm that it is indeed a fracture:

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/lukalatest300809.html

Now we need details of recovery time - a real blow as he was fantastic yesterday.

 

[raf18]

http://translate.google.com/transla...//www.sportal.hr/&sl=hr&tl=en&history_state0=

Interview with luka! four to six weeks only (i think thats what it says)

 

[ostrov]

Minimum 8 weeks.