31 Aug 2026 08:45:15
Any insight on Minteh’s injury?
Quick search said unspecified to right leg requiring surgery…
31 Aug 2026 10:14:32
Severe ankle ligament injury caused by a tackle, which required surgery to correct by all accounts.
31 Aug 2026 10:38:30
Not like you to exaggerate the negative, Vik.
31 Aug 2026 10:57:32
Is Mbaye still not completed to Villa? If not, do we have a chance still?
31 Aug 2026 11:00:49
Riosstepover, you do realise Minteh clearly hurt his ankle badly, was in a lot of pain, has already had surgery, and is scheduled to be out for 3/4 months. Vik is literally stating facts.
31 Aug 2026 11:02:42
I think Minteh has a sore ankle.
31 Aug 2026 11:33:48
Severe ankle ligament damage, Chewy? Severe would be a season-ending injury.
He damaged his ankle ligament and it was repaired in surgery. It's a perfectly normal and non career threatening football injury.
31 Aug 2026 11:38:15
Imo, if an injury requires surgery then it is a serious one, BP. Maybe severe is pushing it a little, but I wouldn't classify it as a normal one either.
31 Aug 2026 11:38:26
Linked N'Guessan, Saint Etienne, has just turned 18, seems another cheap option lol.
31 Aug 2026 11:45:19
So, some places you read it's 8 weeks. The people that think it's a good signing believe that version. For those opposed, it's three or four months. ? Love the way "severe" has to be added.
31 Aug 2026 11:53:51
Do not buy an injured Minteh. Just look at it again in January if we really want him.
31 Aug 2026 11:59:28
@Flo,
Just for the usual suspect who has a need to exaggerate negatives.
31 Aug 2026 12:09:51
Which specific accounts @Vuktor? Name the names for the accounts or was it just another unsubstantiated jackanory tale
31 Aug 2026 12:54:01
I don't think he's a bad long term signing for what it's worth, but there is no escaping the fact it's a severe injury. Do as much mental gymnastics as you want to in order to convince yourself otherwise. I don't care.
The Brighton manager has come out and said as much that it's a severe injury. A minor injury wouldn't require that kind of moderately invasive surgery and minor injury would have a recovery within a few weeks at most.
The surgery he's alleged to have had has a full normal recovery period 4 to 6 months without the level of physiotherapy a professional athlete will have access to. So three months is probably the quickest recovery expected without triggering recurrence or complications and even then it'll take him weeks to get back to full match fitness.
31 Aug 2026 13:24:17
Before I swapped to individual sports psychology, I was a radiographer, and my time in MRI, x-ray and CT, I saw hundreds of ankle injuries.
Generally speaking, it is a very resistant area of ligaments which usually heals back to normal (unlike knee which gets weaker every time it gets injured in the miniscus area), it does, however, depend entirely on how it's injured. Lateral rolling injuries tend to strip the ligament from the bone, and it doesn't always reattach with the same strength it was originally when the roll happens inward.
If the ankle roll is outward, then it does cause some heavy bruising and tearing, but almost always repairs just fine and is one of the strongest joints in the body.
When it comes to ankle injuries in sports, 9 times out of ten they heal exactly like before. Ankle breaks are a different story, and are extremely problematic, rarely healing like before, and often requiring long term management.
I hope that helps clear up any questions people had about this kind of injury.
31 Aug 2026 15:41:03
Riosstepover. Severe doesn't automatically mean season-ending. There are grades of severity; you can have a moderately severe injury that requires surgery and a relatively lengthy recovery process without it being a season-ender. You can also have severe damage to different body parts and have totally different recovery times; Ekitike, by comparison, though he also damaged his ankle, tore an Achilles tendon. Tendons have terrible blood supply, and as a result, recovery is notoriously long. Minteh likely suffered a fracture and ligament damage severe enough that it required surgery and 3-4 months' recovery. Given the obvious pain Minteh was in, along with the fact that he required surgery and a substantial recovery period, on top of the likelihood that there was a break and/or ligament damage, it seems appropriate to describe the injury as moderately severe, at least until we know more.
Nevada, nice input, mate.
Much appreciated, but I think your closing paragraph is a bit of a blanket statement, and therefore a little inaccurate. As you well know, ligaments never heal "exactly as before" due to the body being incapable of regenerating the tissue; instead, the body repairs the damage with a much inferior scar tissue, meaning the affected area will never be as flexible/robust as it was before. Of course, depending on the level of damage, speed/type of treatment and rehab efforts, the amount by which the scar tissue affects the joint going forward can be considerably reduced. So whilst you can build strength and flexibility in the surrounding tissue to reduce the likelihood of repeat injuries, to say that 90% of ankle injuries heal "exactly like before" would be clinically inaccurate. I think I know what you meant to say, though, that 9/10 of the ankle injuries you might see tend to return to full functional mobility.
31 Aug 2026 17:20:09
I had an ankle ligament injury and it was absolutely debilitating. 1 year and still not healed. They said it would never get back to what it was. I know footballers have better doctors than me, but even still.