28 Aug 2024 23:02:39
If chiesa scores the winner on Sunday he has instantly paid his fee back to us.
29 Aug 2024 00:47:35
I would hope that we wouldn't need to rely on a singular goal to win the game but agree with the spirit of that statement.
29 Aug 2024 06:15:48
We can’t be relying on shiny new toys to win us games ?.
29 Aug 2024 06:26:32
He would be the most verstalie of all our forwards. He might end up being be our Bobby++ replacement if all goes well.
Slot will have real headache naming the bench. Jones will miss out the most.
29 Aug 2024 09:03:47
Has he passed the medical?
29 Aug 2024 09:42:24
He is just as prone to injury as Thiago?.
29 Aug 2024 09:49:21
I doubt he will be registered in time and I seriously doubt slot will throw him in the mix without any training with the team . It’s just not the way we do things.
29 Aug 2024 10:57:31
Yuri01, I'm not sure you fully understand the phrase "prone to injury" the way you think you do esp. when it comes to Chiesa. Comparing him to Thiago proves it.
29 Aug 2024 10:59:47
Yuri, His 2206 minutes in Serie A was more than all but 5 players in our squad managed in the Premier League. He averages 35.5 appearances per season in all competitions including his breakthrough campaign and the 2 devastated by an ACL injury. Last season his 33/ 38 Serie A appearances was more than Mo Salah (32/ 38) managed in the Prem.
If you still want to quantify him as injury prone, that's up to you but there is a lot of misinformation being spread around. These are the cold hard facts. People are talking about him as if he's barely kicked a ball since his ACL injury and as if he misses half the season every year and I worry that has skewed a lot of peoples opinions of him.
29 Aug 2024 11:45:54
Well said MK.
29 Aug 2024 11:51:04
Stop it, stop it, stop it. You are all ruining a damn good fiction with these annoying facts.
29 Aug 2024 12:04:17
3 i seen yesterday MK mate.
VVD, Diaz and Allison only players to play more league minutes.
29 Aug 2024 13:05:01
Injury prone means a player has repeated injuries.
Chiesa suffered an ACL tear which is where the bulk of his absences came from. Since then he's missed a couple of games per season.
He's not injury prone.
29 Aug 2024 14:41:17
MKS and Nevada, thanks for the stats. Chiesa has played 70 games in the last 2 seasons, as well. Also, I saw a stat that before his ACL injury, Chiesa had suffered only 5 injuries in 3 seasons.
Yeah compared to Thiago (who I love), Naby, Matip, Studge who had the same amount of injuries in a 4 month spell at times, Chiesa might as well be a freaking cyborg. Injury-prone, my foot.