wiseone wrote:
What is so puzzling is that the injuries seem to disproportionately affect the defenders. We always knew that Rafael (and his twin Fabio), Evans, Smalling, Jones, Vida and Rio were as fragile as a cream cracker. What is surprising is that even new defenders signed by the club immediately fall victim to the same injury curse (Rojo, Blind, Shaw). Even the reserve players called up to replace them have managed to get injured if they play in defence (Blackett, Valencia, Young).
Everyone keeps saying Man Utd need to sign a world class defender. No - they simply need to sign a defender who can play football for 90 minutes without breaking down!
Is there something odd going on at Man Utd? Are the training sessions too intense?
The remarkable thing is that if everyone was fit, Man Utd would have a match day squad bettered only by Man City and Chelsea:
De Gea, Rafael, Jones, Evans, Shaw, Herrera, Carrick, Di Maria, Rooney, Falcao, RVP. Subs: Smalling, Rojo, Blind, Fellaini, Mata, Januzaj, Lindegaard. That is not a bad team (with Young and Fletcher not even making the bench).
benteke wrote:
We also had a pretty huge injury list in that season when we lost the title to City by goal difference, that is basically what lost us the title IMHO.
I remember Vidic and Rio barely played and the likes of Anderson and Cleverly were out most of the season as awell as Valencia
Something not right with our physio department
Does anyone know why Chelsea has so few injuries, is it anything to do with Mourinho methodolgies
At this moment i think it has little to do with training or physios or LVG methods - why - because even Ferguson used to have huge injury lists every season. Moyes came with his physios, same thing. Now LVG, same thing
My take is that Man Utd simple has loads of injury prone players.
People like Jones, Smalling, Rafael, Evans are simple crocks who have never ever played a full season, and lucky if they play half the season. Then the club also seems to like buying more crocks, Falcao - injury record, RVP - injury record, Rojo - injury record
not sure the injury record of people like Herrera, Blind, Felliani, but wont be surprised if they have bad injury records
On the other hand Chelsea seems to get rid of such players, thats why they sold Sturridge.
The one injry prone player they have Costa, he is the one who gets the injuries, nothing the physio department can do to stop him getting injured every now and again