16 | Rodri 2024/25

[alexmcity]

What a player feels is totally irrelevant to the facts. It's why so many reinjries occur, the athelte feels ok and relays that to the specialist, they train fine and look fine and in competition, something goes wrong. I hope you have the same energy for pep who said the exact same and warned against risking it. An ACL is an ACL, it takes 9 months to fully integrate, you can return before that if you want but you play a risky game.

Let's see what happens. It's not about what Rodri feels, but what his doctors tell him. He isn't stupid. Not sure about the fans who think they know better.

 

[Don Karleone]

Probably best if we don't risk him imo

 

[DiscoSteve]

I have it on good authority that Rodri was seen playing tennis in Manchester over the last few days - so knee must be on the mend!

 

[David Silva]

Probably best if we don't risk him imo

Not worth it please don’t risk him

 

[ninjamonkey]

Club scored a bit of an own goal with hyping up his return imo
its just going to get unnecessary attention. Even if he's back for the last few games, why would you want to bring him back when there's an extra couple of months ahead to make sure? Depending on how city are planning on approaching the cwc and then pre-season overlapping, it might be beneficial if he's involved in that for us if he's ready otherwise just getting right for next season should be the only goal.

He's not going to be ready anytime soon, if you look closely at that little training reel city put out, Rodri's quad is still visibly thin, thats the muscle that suffers atrophy the most quickly with an ACL injury and is the hardest to build back up. It's vital for stability and the knee will often feel weak until the quad muscle is built back up. He's got a fair way to go yet.

I have it on good authority that Rodri was seen playing tennis in Manchester over the last few days - so knee must be on the mend!

Surely the only way that's going to be true is if it's with his physio as part of a recovery session.

 

[Coljj]

 

[pbueno16]

Probably best if we don't risk him imo

Not worth it at all for me. If we can't get top 4 without him from where we are in the table after the stretch of fixtures we've managed to get through, we're fucked in many different ways than just missing Rodri.

 

[CΛL]

Peps got a long history of ignoring the medical department, especially at Bayern

 

[skillman]

A shame but understandable that the club put off contract talks after his injury.

I'd have just tied the fucker down for 10 years like we did the Viking.

Even if he comes back 75% of the player he was, he'll still be top 5 in world football. He's that good. And his mentality is phenomenal.

 

[blueparrot]

Peps got a long history of ignoring the medical department, especially at Bayern

Has he really? I know he had issues at Bayern but that was 10 years ago nearly, more ancient than long history. Don’t think he has had any issues while with us and no reason to think he’d ignore our medical team now.

 

[CΛL]

Has he really? I know he had issues at Bayern but that was 10 years ago nearly, more ancient than long history. Don’t think he has had any issues while with us and no reason to think he’d ignore our medical team now.

Fair enough but he has just played Ake into surgery, maybe they just don’t bother arguing with him these days.

 

[blueparrot]

Fair enough but he has just played Ake into surgery, maybe they just don’t bother arguing with him these days.

No Ake has been playing with a fracture because he had to, probably always needed surgery, and no he can have it because we have less games and 2 new centre backs. Nothing says he ignored medical advice that made it worse. But carry on making situations up.

 

[CΛL]

No Ake has been playing with a fracture because he had to, probably always needed surgery, and no he can have it because we have less games and 2 new centre backs. Nothing says he ignored medical advice that made it worse. But carry on making situations up.

I’m not making anything up you lunatic, just stating a fact, Pep played an injured Ake until he required surgery.

 

[blueparrot]

I’m not making anything up you lunatic, just stating a fact, Pep played an injured Ake until he required surgery.

Okay you’ve obviously talked to the medical staff and seen his X-rays well done you.Fair eneough.

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

I’m not making anything up you lunatic, just stating a fact, Pep played an injured Ake until he required surgery.

Those situations are always a conversation between the player, medical team, and manager

Players regularly opt to play through pain or delay surgery, we’ve seen it happen in every team forever. It’s not a Pep thing

 

[fulabeer]

Pep Guardiola on Rodri’s return: “The fans must know they are not the only ones excited… We won’t make stupid decisions, bring him back weeks early and risk setbacks. It looks GOOD, he’s not close yet but he’s touching the ball

Hearing that...so are we Pep, so are we!

 

[BedsBlue68]

Okay you’ve obviously talked to the medical staff and seen his X-rays well done you.Fair eneough.

So many of these types of posts - particularly on Facebook - the number of people that seem to have better knowledge of the City squad players fitness than the medical team is huge!

 

[DiscoSteve]

I have it on good authority that Rodri was seen playing tennis in Manchester over the last few days - so knee must be on the mend!

Got a further update yesterday - it was indeed Rodri and he was playing tennis at Northern Tennis Club in Didsbury with his beloved (not a coach or physio) - and they exited sharply when they realised he'd been recognised by a City fan (not me but a family member)

 

[cleavers]

Got a further update yesterday - it was indeed Rodri and he was playing tennis at Northern Tennis Club in Didsbury with his beloved (not a coach or physio) - and they exited sharply when they realised he'd been recognised by a City fan (not me but a family member)

He's not playing "pro" tennis.

I'm sure he'll have asked if he can, and if it will/can help, and been given sensible advice as to how this may help his recovery.

 

[alexmcity]

I think Rodri will start training with the team in 2-3 weeks. Reckon he'll be back in 6-7 weeks.

Calm down, Pep won't risk him. Rodri will play when he is ready.

Guess he will need 5 months to get to 90% of his preinjury form. Still, that would be enough to make us solid again.

Last season, he contributed 17 goals/assists in the league. That's more than Liverpool's entire 1st choice midfield this season... Best in the world.