Transfer Rumours Summer '23 Transfer Thread

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Where did I say he was out injured when we signed him? We were discussing people with pre-existing injuries that flared up after we signed them despite them passing a medical. Context because Vinagre with an achilles injury could still be a concern even if he passes the medical.
I made it clear I wasn’t certain about the context. I should have left it, sorry.

Though I’m intrigued by the term “pre-existing injury”. A player can have an injury that prevents him playing when signed. Or a player can have a previous injury that doesn’t prevent him playing but later reoccurs. Is a pre-existing injury a third category?

If we didn’t sign players in the second category, we wouldn’t sign many players!
 
I made it clear I wasn’t certain about the context. I should have left it, sorry.

Though I’m intrigued by the term “pre-existing injury”. A player can have an injury that prevents him playing when signed. Or a player can have a previous injury that doesn’t prevent him playing but later reoccurs. Is a pre-existing injury a third category?

If we didn’t sign players in the second category, we wouldn’t sign many players!

I've tried to find the interview with Snodgrass but can't find it, but I thought I remembered him saying he was struggling with it prior to signing with us, I suppose I see that as the distinction. I'm not suggesting just because someone tweaked their hamstring or missed a game with a head knock in the prior season we don't sign them.
 
I've tried to find the interview with Snodgrass but can't find it, but I thought I remembered him saying he was struggling with it prior to signing with us, I suppose I see that as the distinction. I'm not suggesting just because someone tweaked their hamstring or missed a game with a head knock in the prior season we don't sign them.
I don’t doubt your recollection - he reckoned he was injured then. Odd that he played in the Europa League and started a Premier League game. Pretty sure we did fitness tests in 2014!
 
I don’t doubt your recollection - he reckoned he was injured then. Odd that he played in the Europa League and started a Premier League game. Pretty sure we did fitness tests in 2014!

Yeah I think some players are happy to push through and it's hard to talk them out of it sometimes. Didn't KdB play the CL final recently with a torn or strained hamstring? So not always easy to know when it'll go, plus the incident at QPR was a bit of a freak accident.
 
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