Rodri Injury Updates | City say ligament injury (pg117)

Bluearmy said:
Yeah i get that. But KDB is also a worry now. I think im with you, we need to find a system rather than just one body to replace Rodri. Hopefully lessons were learnt from the last time….
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We don't need to find it,we've seen it work n the first 4 games. Lewis as an inverted right back next to Kovacic.Sometimes we might use Stones or Akanji instead of Lewis,sometimes Gundogan instead of Kovacic.
 
Tb1981 said:
Get that new contract in front of him
Now is the time to show him support and get his future bottomed out
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Completely agree. Show our support, back him and he will hopefully back us when Madrid comes calling again.
 
Vester said:
Doesnt really make any difference if it's also the meniscus from an injury time perspective. Pretty common both get injuried at the same time, happened to me twice.
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Yes, exactly. It's like serving sentences concurrently, not consecutively.
 
youngbob said:
The saddest thing about this, in my opinion, isn't that Rodri being injured might affect our title chances this season. We've just won four in a row, we'd just done the treble before that, etc. So a year without the Premier League title isn't going to hurt, exactly, is it? It's shit for Rodri but we'll be alright as a club and a team.

No, the saddest thing for me is that this feels like the end of an era. By the time Rodri comes back, regardless of what condition he's in for the 25/26 season, he'll be touching 30 and the team will have probably moved on a bit. By necessity, of course, but it will have probably moved on all the same - a new system, different key players.

It was like when Kompany had all those calf issues between August and December 2017, during the Centurions season. By the time he came back he was the wrong side of 30 and we didn't really need him in the same way anymore. We had Stones, Otamendi, and Laporte at CB and we got to 100 points without our captain.

He still got that big goal in 2019 against Leicester, but even that came in what was only his 12th Premier League start across the entire season. If all goes to plan in Rodri's absence, by the time he comes back he won't be the talisman or lynchpin he was between 2021 and 2024. He'll still have a big role, but it won't be at the same level.

The other thing that saddens me is that, pending the outcome of Pep's contract talks and the Premier League charges hearing, we might have just seen Rodri's last ever game under Pep and maybe his last ever game for City. Even if the charges hearing goes well and Pep stays, we might not see Rodri at his dominant peak ever again.

So yeah, titles aren't really what football's about for me, it's about the players and loving the team. And Rodri's given us everything we could have dreamed of. I really hope he's capable of another 2-3 year run at the top when he returns because if he's not then we might just have seen his best years go into the rear view mirror.
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Yeah..

I just read it again it's ACL & MENISCUS.

Gundo had ACL but Kun had the MENISCUS & he was never the same player again!

And your view while not rosy certainly paints a very accurate picture. Think we'll need to find some new midfielders a lot sooner than originally planned.
 
January will be here before we know it and we’ve got 3 months to get our replacement boxed off and ready to sign on the 1st or as near as dammit.

Have faith, we’ve got some serious money burning a whole in Sheikh’s pocket, it WILL get spent.
 
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