Injuries 2024/25 | Kovacic ruled out for a month

[IrishBlueSince92]

Is it a week off for our first team players who aren't in their international squads then?

I see Pep is in London on a break

 

[hfc]

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Love Ake but he’s another one made of glass.

 

[Gaz (FMwkdsoul)]

Doku with a new injury. hell is this kid made of.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Doku with a new injury. hell is this kid made of.

I read somewhere when we bought him he suffers from Baastrup's disease which is a chronic degenerative spine condition which flares up and causes pain and discomfort but I cannot for the life of me find anywhere on the Internet to corroborate this! The club hasn't released his injury but would explain a lot.

 

[paulchapo]

I think Doku had injury problems before we bought him but did Ake, Grealish and Dias as they always seem to be on and off the treatment table these days.

 

[the blue panther]

Apart from part of his spell with Bournemouth, and the treble season with City, to my mind, Ake has always been injury prone. Once you start struggling with hamstring issues, it only tends to go one way - the intensity of the game is so demanding these days.
I'll be amazed if we get very much out of KDB in the future, after having that operation, and now he's struggling to recover from whatever the issue has been over the last 4/6 weeks. Praying that he can get back to something like normal, but, at 33 and after that surgery, frankly, I can't see it.
Then add Kyle Walker who's struggling and Ilkay who suddenly seems past his sell-by date - coupled with no Rodri till next season - no wonder Pep's looking glum.
It never rains....

 

[De Bruyne Supremacy]

I think Doku had injury problems before we bought him but did Ake, Grealish and Dias as they always seem to be on and off the treatment table these days.

Dias? This is his first injury in nearly 2 years.... personally don't think he belongs alongside Ake and Grealish in terms of players who get regularly injured

 

[pavelsrnicek]

Kovacic came off at half time for Croatia, maybe injured. Not an injury we can afford at the moment.

 

[deano ou812]

Kovacic came off at half time for Croatia, maybe injured. Not an injury we can afford at the moment.

Or was it a tactical change ?