14 Aug 2022 07:18:45
What is it with our injury record?
How do we seem to have so many injuries all of the time?
Is there something in the water at Finch Farm that causes our players to turn to glass?
14 Aug 2022 08:29:24
I’m guessing the Manager and coach turn around with the different approaches to training, playing etc will not do the muscles any favours mate for starters!
Although I guess we are not the only team to have suffered from this but it certainly has a detrimental effect.
14 Aug 2022 11:55:05
Mina is made from glass 100% it doesn't matter where he is or how he's coached. He's a big lad an awkward looking man when he moves and has a strange stooping posture and Paulo Wanchope coordination that can't be helping him.
DCL has had a big injury and then it's pretty common after so long out to pick up niggles and strains etc. We don't know what the last one was but a slightly secretive "common training incident" so? a hard tackle? Resulting in torn Ligaments? Badly bruised bone? Perhaps a broken bone in a foot?
Godfrey was a freak accident and broke a bone so that's nothing to do with coaching (though Pickford did him no favours playing a ball that was out)
Dacoure hopefully if FL is to be believed was taken off as precaution as he "felt his hamstring" so hopefully its a couple of weeks to rest it and won't be too long (especially if we can cover him and not rush him as he probably was everytime last season he could have done with an extra game or 2 to recover properly) also playing him as a combative DM position when he's an attacking midfielder all his career is possibly putting more strain in him? The heat the last 2 weeks, a short pre season for a 2nd season. The fact it seems to happen only to our 4 better players is just cruel luck I hope. If it was a club training issue then we'd have all kinds of players out at all levels from 1st team to u18s. This is just the footballing gods, murphys law, sods law or this is Everton whatever. It seems far worse when you have a very small core of true first 11 quality players and no depth or cover.