Concussions aren’t a minor injury. If you end up developing CTE your life can be ruined by uncontrollable memory loss, suicidal thoughts, Parkinsonism, and Motor Neurone Disease. I’m not saying that’s what’s happened to Connolly, but a concussion is never something that should just be brushed off. Whatever is wrong with him it seems primarily mental health related to me. If anyone has ever struggled with serious mental health issues, they’ll know how hard it is to stay on top of your physical health when your mental health is in the pits, how your diet turns to ****, and how hopeless you can feel. It’s not uncommon to gain weight (also a side affect of most SSRI antidepressants), turn to substances, or for someone to lose their job as everything starts to pile up, feel too much, and then spiral out. His time at city felt like a last chance for him and he really looked like he was trying to turn things around until the injury kind of put a stop to everything. I could be wrong, but I think the injury and resulting time out has really screwed him up in the MH department. I hope he finds a new club and gets himself together, but I could also see his playing days being done.
It seem we've got a recall option on Oscar and the new manager is going to be able to get him back if he wants (we're probably going to be conscious of the fact that he's not playing and therefore the permanent option is unlikely to be triggered).
Agreed. One day we’re shopping in Morrisons, the next, we’re trawling through the almost out of date section in Heron.
If I was the new manager Which I should be tbh I’d be licking my lips at having a goal scorer like Oscar in my team
The 50 high calibre candidates thing is very weird. Not sure there’s even that many managers out of work at the moment that would apply, let alone high calibre ones. Feels like something Ehab would have said.
His contract ends 6 months after the loan does, so it maybe isn't an enormous problem to us FFP-wise if they don't take the permanent option anyway.
Tis true. Just the amount of people on here who are qualified to be conditioning coaches merely by dint of the example they set, would have meant that Chazz would have had the fittest team in the Championship. Shortsightedness rears it's ugly head again.
They don’t, but anyone in a job will be tied up with a contract that would need to be bought out, meaning longer negotiations and a slower recruitment. Acun wanted it wrapped up within a week.
I think you underestimate just how many managers world wide are out of work. There will be plenty of UK managers that applied, then you've got ones from Turkey and the rest of the continent, I imagine some from America will have applied too.
Ollie Norwood any one? We should have got him back in 2018 imo. Not sure if he can still do it, as I don't watch much EPL.
