Powell in particular appears to have been an 'out of ideas' signing, one of desperation. Thinking back to the holy trinity of Pearson, Shakespeare and Walsh, and how they almost always got it right, I can't imagine that at such a crucial point in the season that they would have made their final throw of the dice an injury prone youngster from United.
Our medical team had absolutely nothing to do with it, they weren't even involved in Diomande's medical.
I'm well aware, and that just makes it worse that we signed a player we didn't assess. Our medical team surely swapped notes before signing off??
I think they did, they graded the injury and we accepted it as fact seemingly. Anyway, its moot, he's here now.
How the **** do you double check a patients diagnosis when you can't check the patient? We got someone else to do the medical, we had to trust the information provided, our medical team never met the player so couldn't possibly make a diagnosis.
You read their report, you look at the scans, and you conclude with their diagnosis... not sure what's so difficult to understand about that? All of which really doesn't take that long. I go and get a scan from an expert, and my GP gets a copy of my scans. He pops them up on the screen, looks them over, reads the opinion of the expert and agrees or disagrees with them, all in the space of half an hour. If our medical team didn't think to look at a copy of Diomande's scans that's amateur.
No doubt they did, not everything is clear on a scan. I should know, I've had eight scans on my pancreas and it took eighteen months to get a conclusive diagnosis, these blokes had one day. You have no idea what they did or didn't see, so accusing them of being amateur just makes you look a cock (again).
Ok if you say so. I don't think it makes me look like a cock to criticise our medical department for numerous stuff ups. It's either Bruce's or their fault for rushing players back last season, giving the green light for guys like Brady, Diame, Jelavic, Aluko, Dawson, Chester and others to be rushed back early from recovery - and yes Bruce has admitted personal fault for a number of those - and either Bruce or their fault for signing players who were injured at the time of signing and not doing a proper due diligence on the signing. Yes we were seemingly under the pump to rush through a deadline day signing, but that doesn't excuse a failure to properly check on his medical condition. If we can't do our own medical then we really shouldn't be taking the word of some university. And if we're checking their scans and still stuffing up then the blame is certainly on the medical staff for not being entirely confident. If that makes me a cock for looking at the numerous occurences over the last four years (and beyond if you then want to talk Bullard amongst others) then so be it.
Norways medical services are light years ahead of us. Everything is over there. You'll earn (on average) three times as much on your annual salary in Norway. My friend is a bar person and she makes knocking on £18,000 a year!
