28 Jul 2024 17:33:08
Apparently Yoro has a hairline fracture and will be out for 6-8 weeks. Not sure how true that is.
Back to Maguire being first choice again!
28 Jul 2024 17:51:10
An 18 yo boy taking a huge leap in class and physicality no huge surprise he got injured. It will be 2 years before we see the best of him. Maybe longer.
28 Jul 2024 18:13:13
Agreed. Surely they have to go get MDL or somebody else. Can’t go into another season relying on Maguire, lindelof and Evan’s at the back.
28 Jul 2024 19:43:30
Some over the top reactions here.
28 Jul 2024 20:17:17
Not sure it’s over the top to worry that we actually haven’t improved the back four. Only one addition, and that’s a young lad with limited experience, who is now injured.
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’d rather not have another season watching Maguire and Evans starting loads of games. If that happens we can’t expect anything different to last season.
Still time to get more signings, fingers crossed they do.
28 Jul 2024 20:23:22
Yoro/ MDL/ JB that's the window.
I'd rather promote Fish than have another season with donkey.
28 Jul 2024 20:45:51
Mad Hatter is right spot on, some massive over reactions.
Firstly, if it's true and he's got an hairline fracture then that's just bad luck. Nothing to do with additional physicality (this was a pre-season game, not a blood and thunder battle with Stoke on a rainy Monday night after all) .
I've raised concerns about his ability to step up to a more physical league, and generally about over playing young players while their bodies are still growing/ developing.
Yet a hairline fracture 30 minutes into a pre-season game does not validate those concerns.
While the woe is me/ end of the world reactions are so premature that I doubt you'd need to even take your trousers off to lose your virginity.
We know the club still hold an interest in Branthwaite, as well as MdL, and that we are in talks with Mazraoui. The idea that the "only player brought in to improve our defence is out injured so the season is over" malarkey is frankly a little embarrassing.
We'll almost certainly sign at least one maybe even two more defenders. While hopefully Martinez and Shaw won't spend nearly the entire season out injured.
We are also chasing Ugarte and probably other CDM's to improve the defensive solidity in front of our defence.
Yoro wasn't signed just for the first 6 weeks of this season, but for the next 5 years or more. Yes it's frustrating and disappointing to see him miss the start of the season. But it's not the end of the world.
28 Jul 2024 21:32:19
Happy how dare you speak sense.
29 Jul 2024 06:28:49
We need De Ligt either way because we are only 1 injury away from Maguire. That has now become reality once again. We have to let one of Maguire or Lindelof go, and bring in a much better CB.
29 Jul 2024 10:11:34
Both Wazza, let them both go. They are substandard. Promote from within and reduce the wages. It is probably the most important business we will conduct this window.
29 Jul 2024 11:02:14
Jb is the primary target hopefully a deal to be done there.
Looks like rb is also a primary position to fill which was blatantly obvious to nearly everybody.
Don't know anything about this lad from Morocco. Hope he can make a good contribution.
29 Jul 2024 16:40:41
Wayne Rooney had a fractured hairline, but went to Turkey to get it fixed, came back with a new set of teeth too???.
29 Jul 2024 20:55:32
You’ve attempted humour and it wasn’t an essay…. Shappy, what’s going on!?
{Ed025's Note - we are conducting drug tests on him as we speak FC.. :)