Rodri Injury Updates | TNT & ESPN reporting ACL | Still nothing official

[halfcenturyup]

Come Easter, we’ll be all saying that we never saw Gvardiol as the world’s best number 6.

Or Ederson .....

 

[super_city_si]

Hopefully Jacob Wright gets the nod there tomorrow and bosses it.

Really hope he plays v Watford.

 

[youngbob]

Why? It’s not being awarded for this coming season ??

Don't think a player has ever missed three months of a year and won it.

 

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Bruno G in Jan from Newcastle is now non negotiable.

And the price just went up £20m at least - no thanks.
We'll find a way to manage somehow. Trust Pep and the squad (although it's looking very thin currently)

 

[vanchi]

A certain fan base outing themselves as absolute cunts as well, literally celebrating another person getting hurt, grim.

there are hundreds, probably thousands arsenal fans celebrating since last night, the most obnoxious fanbase in the world.

 

[bluemoon32]

Come Easter, we’ll be all saying that we never saw Gvardiol as the world’s best number 6.

Made me laugh anyway

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

Do we have to carry on pretending that a perfect "Rodri back-up" even exists? There's literally no player in world football who would happily sit out all the games Rodri plays and then bring his absolute best on the rare occasions he'd get to start. You could point at literally any player in the squad (except Ederson) and say "We should have signed a proper back-up" if they were to ever get injured long-term.

We have Kovacic, Gundogan, Lewis, Stones, and even Gvardiol, who can fill in here. Of the many things Pep has mastered over the years with City, it's doing a heck of a lot with a small squad when big injuries arise. Mendy, De Bruyne, Laporte, now Rodri. We've seen in the early weeks of 24/25 that we can win well without Rodri and the January window isn't far away. You imagine we'll be looking at the likes of Kimmich or Bruno G then.

Gutted for Rodri personally because this means Vinicius Jr. will probably take the Balon d'Or, and at 28 he's no spring chicken anymore which means he probably won't be the same when he comes back. But we'll be alright. We've already made history, at worst this season we'll be finishing in the top four and going for all the cups. And we still have a squad that's more capable of winning this league, even without Rodri - it won't be comfortable but it'll be fun.

Once we get Newcastle out of the way we don't have a truly difficult game till Spurs on Nov 23. We should be able to get a system that works in place by then.

December is when it really gets tough..
Dippers away Dec 1
Palace away Dec 7
Juve away Dec 11
Rag Derby Dec 14
Villa away Dec 21

 

[M Gaudino]

its not confirmed. Espn reporting an unquoted source and Pol Ballus reporting ‘lengthy lay off’ conflicts with what the report was earlier

 

[CC1]

Need to spend in January. We can manage till then

 

[Cobwebcat]

Oh dear