Benjamin Mendy (Back In Training)

[Deleted member 81382]

Typical City to get a long term injury in the position where we only have one top class option.

 

[Rolee]

I dont understand why people think Peps comments about signing someone in January mean its a dead cert terrible injury, surely we were after a second left back in summer anyway? If not thats just piss poor planning going into a 60game season with one left back.

Pep's comments also included a line about looking for an alternative left back in the summer and that now we may have to look at January instead.

 

[blueparrot]

All about timing of the comment, why mention buying a left back in Jan otherwise. Im hoping for good news, but the fact Pep even mentioned it makes me fear the worst.

He didn't, he was asked would we buy a left back in January. He replied IF he is out for a while we would look at it.

 

[gazzaa2]

I dont understand why people think Peps comments about signing someone in January mean its a dead cert terrible injury, surely we were after a second left back in summer anyway? If not thats just piss poor planning going into a 60game season with one left back.

Shouldn't have sold Kolarov without a replacement first.

 

[Rolee]

He didn't, he was asked would we buy a left back in January. He replied IF he is out for a while we would look at it.

It's incredible the amount of time I see people ignoring the questions in press conferences. Context is everything.

 

[Fallingbostel Blue]

Can't understand if it is a suspected ACL problem, why he was allowed to struggle up and down the steps on crutches rather than be wrapped in cotton wool nursing the injury at home or at the very least in a box where there were no steps.

 

[Mattyc55]

He didn't, he was asked would we buy a left back in January. He replied IF he is out for a while we would look at it.

Indeed he did - but surely our highly qualified doctors will have given Pep an initial diagnosis and be able to spot an ACL a mile off? Fair enough this Barca guy is a top knee specialist, but not everyone has to send their players to him for confirmation of an ACL tear.

Hopefully I'm wrong and we're leaving it all to the Barca specialist to look at.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Shouldn't have sold Kolarov without a replacement first.

What good would he have done? He was next to useless at left back, as was clichy.

 

[lionheart]

Presumably Mendy will have been insured to the hilt, leaving us with ample funds to buy another left back in January. Also, in the mean time, aren't we allowed to sign a player who is out of contract. There must be one about somewhere in Europe.

 

[Sheikh Rattle n Roll]

Absolute cobblers a good 50% of matches someone goes off injured and 95% of these the injury is trivial.
It was a friendly match and no one watching could reasonably know the extent of injury or likelihood of recovery.

Check your facts, friendly or not, his knee was strapped before the England match began, his injury in the England match was not caused by a heavy challenge, there was an obvious weakness there, meaning his knee was not in a good shape.