21 Dec 2025 21:35:04
Ornstein reporting Isak has broken leg…lovely.
21 Dec 2025 22:06:58
If true, gutted for the lad - he may never be the player we know he can be with this set back. Hoping for a speedy recovery.
21 Dec 2025 22:14:37
Hopefully it means a quicker recovery than ACL. I mean he walked off pretty much. Let's pray we see him again this season.
21 Dec 2025 22:23:19
Strange to say a break/ fracture is better news than ligaments normally.
21 Dec 2025 22:44:13
Depending on the site of the fracture it could certainly have less impact on his future football than ligament instability/ reconstruction. The fibula is not classified as a weight bearing bone so if that is the bone in question, it may explain why he was able to walk off. He could have suffered a syndesmosis fracture/ sprain (high ankle sprain) . Apart from connective tissue damage and potential instability, it can also cause a fibula head fracture. This would indeed take a few months to recover from, but certainly less than ACL reconstruction.
Cheers.
22 Dec 2025 00:08:06
Let’s hope it’s minor. Clearly a player there but just not been his season. Without Eat Tea Cake we’d be up a creek….
22 Dec 2025 00:32:26
Exactly what I was thinking Greggars.
22 Dec 2025 01:02:58
Coulred Not at all. Bones heal exceptionally well because they regenerate using the same biological materials as the original bone structure. This means they can heal to almost 100% of the original strength.
Ligaments on the other hand are never the same again, they scar. The tissue created during healing process is nowhere near as strong or flexible as the original tissue, making for a longer recovery process and greatly increased risk of repeat injury. Whilst modern treatment protocols play a vital role in improving the quality of the scar tissue its still impossible to repair to the original state, often resulting in a loss of stability, mobility, strength and flexibility.
We're only hearing reports of a broken leg atm, very vague, no details yet. A broken leg sounds very dramatic, but depending on the location and fracture type it may not be as bad as it sounds. He did manage to bear some weight on it with assistance which could be positive sign. Fingers crossed.
22 Dec 2025 07:07:03
Let’s hope he has a speedy and full recovery. It makes signing another forward as well as at least one CB vital in January.
22 Dec 2025 08:33:00
May i make a possibly contentious suggestion that we don't need to buy another striker? Maybe attention should be directed elsewhere? Just saying.
22 Dec 2025 08:33:45
Depends on what kind of break or fracture it is. If it's just a crack and not a full break, it can heal quite fast. He did manage to out some weight on his leg immediately after the tackle so that's a positive although the adrenaline could have been masking the pain a bit.
I joke we see him back and playing again before the end of the season.
22 Dec 2025 08:48:19
Obviously still have to wait for the official news, but based on how he left the pitch, that he didn’t need oxygen, if it is a lower leg break then that would be the best case of the worst case scenarios.
And people need to remember that a broken bone isn’t just the bone snapping in half, it includes any kind of fracture from compound to hairline.
So it could be a minor fracture of the bone that will require recovery time but not something like Djirbril Cisse’s leg break.
22 Dec 2025 09:30:28
@delvecs We won't buy a striker just because Isak has in injury however I suspect that it might make us slightly more likely to move forward with a potential move for Semenyo as he can play all across the frontline so would offer a certain amount of cover through the middle and it was a move that we were already considering.
I take your point though as it is clear for everybody to see that our CB situation is unsustainable.