Woodgate and Siem De Jong are right up there. Woodgate was ridiculously good. Unfortunately he could play no more than 15mins without tearing his groin or some other muscle. De Jong was a classic ****ing over by Ajax, the bizarreness of his injuries took the biscuit. A collapsed lung
Wes Brown was pretty good for the Mackems - he loved an injury. Paul McGrath and Ledley King didn't even train due to their dodgy knees. Although in McGraths case I'm sure all the sauce probably didn't help.
Wes Brown if regularly fit throughout his career would have been a Man Utd and England great, he strolled through every game before hobbling off with an injury...
Owen was our most expensive crock, I think including transfer fee and wages, he cost us around £50m Aarons despite being 21, would have spent over 2 years injured by the time he returns to fitness from his current injury, Other clubs, ledley king! remember Redknapp saying he never trained because his knee was so bad, so he would swim all week and then start on a Saturday! Diaby has already been said, but when fit and playing the guy was a genius honestly understood why Wenger persisted because he was yaya toure good, a level of skill that is unteachable. Carroll, wilshere, owen Hargreaves and van persie always worth a mention.
Not bad at all if you discount the cartledge injury early in his career. The shoulder injury in 12/13 that kept him out for 14 or so games. The 10 or so the following season and of course last season. Not bad at all.
Not many players will have missed best part of 60 games in that time. Effectively screwed his career here.
He's been our first choice keeper for years. How has it screwed his career here? Appearances for the last 5 years here, ousting Steve Harper along the way: 11/12: 42 12/13: 31 13/14: 38 14/15: 31 15/16: 9 You really think he's the biggest crock we've had?
It wouldn't be much of a thread if everyone named the obvious Crocks would it? To answer your question he's no more the biggest crock than most others quoted. But, it doesn't take away the.fact that he's missed games in 12/13, 14/15 & 15/16 through injuries. The latest of which has ultimately resulted in him probably leaving the club for good (60,or so games missed) IMO he'd still be first choice keeper but for the injuries. You think otherwise which is fair enough.
It'd be funny watching that lot - there would be about 30mins of injury time at end of first half and they would have to call the game off then as we would only have 3 fit players left.
Its got to be De Jong - there may be players who have missed more time than him but its like he is continually inventing new injuries just to avoid playing for us. The collapsed lung is well known. What I didn't realise was that he spent 2 weeks out last year when he was injured by his own contact lens. Looks like we have another 3 years of him yet unless PSV Eindhoven decide to take him on or medical science wants to buy him for research purposes.
