Injuries 2024/25 | Kovacic ruled out for a month

[Man_City_Loyal]

Pep likes a small squad and nobody can argue that it doesn't work for him, but when you get the number of injuries we currently have it make's things tough. Any win will do at Bournemouth for me.

doesn't include academy players though? Just 23/25 registered first teamers

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Our medical team are the reason we can actually field a team each game. They are the unsung heroes. We’ve had about a decade plus of averaging probably close to 60 games per season

spot on

 

[blueste41]

Whoever is available we have to win next Tuesday, the rags next manager getting any kind of result against us is unthinkable!

 

[willipp]

Whoever is available we have to win next Tuesday, the rags next manager getting any kind of result against us is unthinkable!

He wont even be there next week by the sounds of it. I'd say the Lisbon game is the one game we can rest players in.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Im glad the media are acknowledging our injury crises even though its because they are excited.

 

[inchy14]

You can't really legislate for the amount of injuries we have at the moment, but many voiced their concerns at the start of the season that the squad was too small. It felt like a big risk at the time, and it looks to have backfired already. Just need to get through the next two league games, and hope we can get bodies back after the international break.

It’s only ‘backfired’ to those who don’t want to give some extremely talented youngsters a chance.

I’d rather see O’Reilly or Wright than another £50 million pound couple of players come in on the odd occasion and not perform.

They’re good enough to play against the likes of Bournemouth and Brighton with experience around them.

They need chances and are now getting them.

 

[johnny crossan]

Simpson-Pusey looked good when he came on last night, very encouraging and he's big and quick enough to do a job for us at the back if needed over the next week.

 

[blueste41]

He wont even be there next week by the sounds of it. I'd say the Lisbon game is the one game we can rest players in.

Oh, I thought everyone was generally agreeing he will be at Sporting until the international break?

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[Alexia_Ko]

It’s only ‘backfired’ to those who don’t want to give some extremely talented youngsters a chance.

I’d rather see O’Reilly or Wright than another £50 million pound couple of players come in on the odd occasion and not perform.

They’re good enough to play against the likes of Bournemouth and Brighton with experience around them.

They need chances and are now getting them.

1) O'Reilly needs to play in his actual position because midfield isn't working for him. Wright was pretty good though.
2) academy players also have games, we can't flog them out either or we'll ruin them. It's better to get 1 senior player in January
3) Brighton and Bournemouth away are NOT easy games

 

[Alexia_Ko]

Along with the idiots who think it's down to having too small a squad (ignoring the 8 injured players) there's some whoppers on here.

It's also down to the fact that players simply aren't performing. I don't know why Gundo was taken off but I doubt Kovacic was supposed to play yesterday. Gundo's performances have been nothing short of underwhelming in midfield. Foden can't pick up form. Silva looks fatigued. Even if we got everyone back this season except Rodri it wouldn't change our midfield woes. We've got nunes but I doubt Pep wants to play him in midfield. We've only got 3 players in midfield that can put in a decent tackle and so far only Kovacic and Silva have shown they can do that when there's a turnover.