I watched a documentary about Henry and he stated in his time at Arsenal there was only two times he can remember being fully fit, so no niggles or tightness. 100% healthy. Do we believe that Sturridge has a fear where if his body isn't 100% healthy he cannot play? Swollen knee doesn't sound that serious of an injury but he's currently missed two games and might not be available for Southampton. Going onto the professional athlete part, I just do not understand how anyone can be paid to play a sport can play through an injury which isn't that bad. Surely a question has to be should they retire as a result?
As others pointed out when i raised this doubt we have to trust Klopp that he believes sturridge. Ive heard olympic athletes say the same that they are never fully injury free as elite level sport damages fitness, it doesnt produce it. I can understand individuals caring more about their career longevity than they used to. Nobody wants to see players crippled when they retire anymore but do you want to look back on your career and see you spent half of it in the treatment room? Being available to play is as important as being skillful when you do and with some their bodies aren't suitable to be athletes no matter how much innate skill they have. Sturridge falls in to this category i fear.
Start only paying these pre Madonna's when they play. then see how many of the ****ers are actually injured.
I think Sturridge does have a mental problem now - which is natural for a player who has suffered so many injuries over his career. And another problem is that he has been mismanaged - his injury was misdiagnosed all this time which is why he has only just had the operation. And at the end of the day - he is injured. We should not be risking him to play. The senior people at LFC did the same to Torres and made him play against doctors orders and that effectively ruined his career.
All these trips to the USA seem to have made a massive difference He'd have been cured quicker going the Royal on a Saturday night
I remember Bobby Robson talking about big Dunc when he was at Newcastle, he said that he got to the point were he stopped asking the player if he was completely match fit and just stuck his name on the team sheet! Some players just always seem to have niggles that they think makes them not match ready, I think Henry's comments sum it up perfectly, you just have to play through them. I don't mean a return to the days when players were playing every week with cortisone injections, but merely accepting that a twinge shouldn't keep you out. Some of Sturridges comments about his fitness and the fact he apears to think that his issues are genetic, make me think he's a bit of a hypochondriac and that it could a psychologist that he needs as much as a physio
As mentioned in another a thread, looks like we'll be getting the highly respected Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfaht to head up our medical dept.
I remember once having a leg amputated and the very next day I was playing defensive mid at the leisure center. You wouldn't have heard me whining... "Oh I can only hop." or "my stump is still bleeding heavily and I feel faint".
I think Sturridge just genuinely has bad injury problems because of the fact he's such an explosive player. It's not like he's missing games here and there with niggles, he's out for months at a time. I doubt you'd be out for months at a time just because you didn't think you were a 100% fit.
Saha was similar. He held himself back which was a shame as he had so much ability and the potential to be very, very (very) good.
didnt Rodgers say (couldve been someoneelse) that Sturridge wontplay if hefeels only something slightly wrong?
We are speculating about Sturridge though, we don't need to create an issue that might not be really there. We need positivity not negative questions. I actually think he has just been unlucky.
What was it Carra said once... Something along the lines of he was never injured and used to think most people who claimed to be injured were faking it.
