Benjamin Mendy (Back In Training)

[balotelli's back pocket]

Mendy says a couple months, but its a ruptured ACL so surely he is out for the season

 

[Patientman63]

Bollocks

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

We need to break Duncan Castle's legs as soon as possible.

 

[Andouble]

all on the most pointless and stupidest of tackles, too. Completely avoidable. fuck

 

[PaulMoulden'sRecord]

Absolutely massive loss. Integral to the way Pep wants us to play. As big a loss for 9 months as Sergio or Silva.

 

[lasereyes]

But Mendy already debunked Castles' tweet. I think the one thing we can say with any certainty is that Duncan Castles was purely speculating. He knew what we knew, it's worse than first thought and he's going to Barcelona. From there he's just jumped to worst case scenario.

He said that nobody knows - which is true (there has been no official diagnosis). But if there is suspected ligament damage, the doctor would have performed the Lachman test, which doesn't require any equipment (you place your hands on the leg and test for excessive forward movement of the tibia compared to the upper leg). If the Lachman was negative, it would pretty much rule out a torn ACL, in which case it seems unlikely Pep would have said what he did.

 

[Silvercloud]

Surely a ruptured ACL is longer than 2 months out? Another rest of the season job?

 

[Daz_Blue]

A torn ACL is longer than a rupture is it not ?

 

[BlueDejong]

How long missed ?

 

[shakeyboy]

Gutted. Good luck to the lad. Will still play a massive role around the club and long may it continue.