New Kompany Calf Injury?

Bilboblue said:
His priorities, as a passionate Belgian, are to play for his country and do the best he possibly can for them. For many footballers, especially foreign ones, it is the absolute pinnacle of their career and so it damn well should be.

Yes, it's disappointing for us, but let's not forget it is Vinny's passion that makes him the player he is.

Fingers crossed it is nothing serious.
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Radio silence from the man himself is ominous
 
Neville Kneville said:
No idea.

All I know is we were scrabbling around for Jonny Evans on deadline day & didn't get him.

Figure out your own way of deciding it was sound management.
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As a 4th choice, mainly because he's HG, so I don't consider him much of a loss.

There's a lot of untapped hypotheticals you could still explore as to why no additional CB was signed this window.
Maybe Vinny felt confident he'd make it to the winter window without any injury. Or maybe finding a suitable backup isn't as easy as you imagine, etc.
But I guess it's easier to play the blame game.
 
Jazzcat said:
As a 4th choice, mainly because he's HG, so I don't consider him much of a loss.

There's a lot of untapped hypotheticals you could still explore as to why no additional CB was signed this window.
Maybe Vinny felt confident he'd make it to the winter window without any injury. Or maybe finding a suitable backup isn't as easy as you imagine, etc.
But I guess it's easier to play the blame game.
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You have decided JFE was 4th choice & you are complaining about 'hypotheticals' .

It is my opinion that City needed a cb. Pep Guardiola, prior to the window opening, specifically mentioned how important Kompany was & how we should not leave ourselves without cover for such a player. And repeated it more than once.

Last Christmas, VVD's team mates gave him a City shrt, so strong were his links to City.

This window opens & apparently there was never any interest from City & what is more, we have no great interest in a cb.

At the end of the window, we are negotiating 20-30 mil for a '4th choice' cb. Yet we didn't try to sign one earlier.

It could all be coincidence.

I don't believe it. And I think it's stupid.

I don't care if you don't like the fact that I don't believe it as I'm perfectly entitled to that opinion & it isn't without a reasonable possibility that I could be right.


If you think, based on the same evidence, it was all good planning, fine, but please stop suggesting I am somehow being underhanded, by not agreeing with you.
 
Marvin said:
Not clear when he got the injury as he played 90 mins against Gibraltar. Could be that g
ame, or it could have been in training afterwards. Or something innocuous.
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Yeah, Martinez (the Belgian coach) said he got a kick tot the back of his knee during the game against Gibraltar, that's why he didn't play him for safety measures against Greece.
It's ominous that he still doesn't train with the group one week later though.
 
Neville Kneville said:
You have decided JFE was 4th choice & you are complaining about 'hypotheticals' .
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Do you honestly think he's anything other than a 4th choice?

Neville Kneville said:
This window opens & apparently there was never any interest from City & what is more, we have no great interest in a cb.

At the end of the window, we are negotiating 20-30 mil for a '4th choice' cb. Yet we didn't try to sign one earlier.
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Reports stated we were in for Leonardo Bonucci, Aymeric Laporte, Lucas Hernandez, Holger Badstuber and Van Dijk and these deals fell through because of various reasons, not because Pep thought better of it and went for attackers instead.

Neville Kneville said:
It could all be coincidence.

I don't believe it. And I think it's stupid.

I don't care if you don't like the fact that I don't believe it as I'm perfectly entitled to that opinion & it isn't without a reasonable possibility that I could be right.

If you think, based on the same evidence, it was all good planning, fine, but please stop suggesting I am somehow being underhanded, by not agreeing with you.
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Ofcourse you're entitled to an opinion but you may just as well be wrong. Also keep in mind that even the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry, instead of suggesting there was no plan to begin with.
Either way, not getting a replacement was always going to be a gamble no matter the reasons, fingers crossed it won't prove too costly.
 
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