BBC are reporting the opposite, saying Austin or Kinsky (the irony) will start in arguably our most important game of the season.
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BBC are reporting the opposite, saying Austin or Kinsky (the irony) will start in arguably our most important game of the season.
Hopefully the bbc are as accurate as usual
Don’t rate Vicario but he’s the best Spurs have atm
I guess that answers a couple of questions: Kinsky randomly starting the first leg against Atleti, and why Vic didn't even try to move towards the Mousers' free kick at the weekend
Saw that and consequently out till next season. Maddison return can't be far off though. Seen him training with the ball.
Kudus never got injured for West Ham yet will be injured more than he was fit for Spurs
What a joke
It is too tempting to blame this on bad luck.
This is the third year we've seen double figures in injuries almost consistently throughout the season. And the number of players who return only to suffer setbacks is also much higher than usual.
There is something chronically wrong with the physio team, but we'll likely never know what.
Less the physio team, more how our coaches do at least one of the following three
i.) Fail to adequately rotate the squad, so certain players get worn down
ii.) Rush players back from injury too soon
iii.) Have players carrying injuries play as if they're fine
Lack of rotation is where both Ange and Frank fell down hard, while Conte had several players continue playing through injury
None of which can be pinned on the physio team, other than the question of why the physio team aren't putting their foot down when a player clearly needs to be rested due to having a minor muscle injury but instead they're playing 90 minutes until that is no longer an option
Oh great, we're going to be seeing that TikTok saying the retractable pitch is 100% to blame, even for injuries picked up in training, at away grounds or when a player is clearly clattered...
Could still be true if the retractable pitch is causing weakness and the snapping/straining happens elsewhere.
Highly doubtful: we didn't have a mass injury crisis playing on a retractable pitch for the first three years we played on it
The injuries came from different managers having different ways to be abysmal with their squad management, which usually boils down to failure to rotate that was apparent with both Ange and Frank running certain players into the ground in seasons where we were playing two games a week
The discourse about the retractable pitch basically comes from a Los Ladrones fan blaming the retractable pitch at the Bernebeau - when, again, a cursory look at the team stats this season shows the lack of adequate rotation
But since 2023, the Real Madrid has suffered 7 ACL tears — and every single one happened at the Bernabéu or their training fields built to the same specifications. Some people are starting to notice a pattern.
Except they aren't noticing a pattern, that's the issue
Los Ladrones have been snakebit with injuries since 2020, meaning that not only were they experiencing injury problems at the pre-renovating Bernabeau but also the season they were playing at the Di Stefano, neither of which have retractable pitches. There's also the fact that Eder Militao counts for two of the injuries, having re-injured his ACL when returning to training after surgery
Also, one thing which is overlooked is the track record the players had for knee injuries, several of them before they even joined FC Franco
- Dani Carvajal has a history of injuries, missing the majority of the 2020-21 season due to various knee injuries
- David Alaba missed a significant amount of the 2014-15 season due to various knee ligament injuries
- Courtois missed three months of the 2015-16 season at Chelsea due to a meniscus tear
None of those can be blamed on playing on a retractable pitch that didn't exist yet
The fact the 34 year old Carvajal or 33 year old Alaba have histories of knee injuries yet routinely start every game is the pattern, but suggesting that's not going to draw eyeballs
I am not trying to sell an idea just reporting what I have heard. Newcastle have suffered even more injuries than us apparently so maybe the fact of having managerial stability has helped them through compared to us. Plus of course our decision to bring in lots of younger 'potential' players and going light on experience, especially in midfield. Wrong squad decisions, wrong manager decisions point to problems with our choice of directors, add injuries to that and it's not surprising where we are right now.