Vincent Kompany injuries

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Dax777 said:
Can't walk around in fear of being injured.
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You can with his fitness record. Kompany is a danger to himself & if he can't see that his body can only withstand so much punishment, & the punishment his body can withstand should be reserved for his employers, then we need to look after our own interests as it's obvious Kompany is mostly looking after his own.

We all get past it. There isn't a chance in hell you'd get me out on a football pitch trying what I used to do in my heyday, mostly because my body can't do that any more and couldn't withstand the punishment.

However, I've played the odd bit of 5-a side with similarly physically challenged mates, so none of us are trying to push our bodies beyond their capabilities. Kompany at most has 2 decent games a week in him & needs periods of rest & recuperation in between, & that isn't going to happen if he chooses to play international football during the periods when he should be resting his near 32 year old self.

We're Manchester City Football Club, & we're here to win trophies & titles, NOT look after players on the treatment table, so they can play International football. Kompany in this case should retire from club football & employ personal trainers to keep him fit just for Belgium Internationals.

Sound ridiculous? Well so does a man with a chronic injury record who keeps pushing his body beyond its limits in search of International glory above his obligations to Manchester City Football Club.
 
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ono said:
He's similar to Fernandinho in the sense that he plays very much on the edge in terms of gambling when making decisions. When he gets the timing right he looks really good, but when he gets it wrong, he exposes the full back line. Sometimes the mistake isn't even obvious but the problem it causes is huge. Both worry me to be honest, although has to be said Dinho was exceptional last night.
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Both played well on the whole, I thought , but Fern was exceprional.

Strange how that has always been his accepted role at City, yet at Shakhtar, he had a Gareth Barry type character who sat behind him doing that job & Fern was one of the best in Europe, in a different role.

That's for a different thread though.
 
We are very lucky to have him as our captain.

If he's fit he should play for Belgium. As I keep saying, he will retire from international football after the world cup anyway.
 
If he's not been playing for us because he's still injured then it would be a disgrace if he goes away and plays for them. If he's not playing for us because Pep is pissed off with him for getting injured last time or because he doesn't "trust" his fitness then I don't have a problem with him going at all. If we are choosing not to pick him when he's not injured then I'd have more of an issue with that than him going to play for Belgium. When and what was the last update on his injury?
 
GX Blue said:
We are very lucky to have him as our captain.

If he's fit he should play for Belgium. As I keep saying, he will retire from international football after the world cup anyway.
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I guess at the end of the day it comes down to this, at some point City will say it's not worth continuing planning on this guy being fit and move on I think they very nearly did in the summer.

So for Kompany it comes down to do you risk becoming surplus to the clubs plans or not.....

and that is only something Kompany can answer, like 99.99% of the people here, I don't have a choice to make like that, but being captain (even if he doesn't play all the games) for a team that wins the World Cup might well be too much to walk away from.
 
If he doesn't play a single minute for us in between both international breaks but plays for Belgium who have already qualified then I do question Kompany. I'm a big fan of his and have never given him crap for playing for his country but this would be an unnecessary risk. I hope it's just a case of him going along for team building and he doesn't play because he will aggravate an issue which clearly hasn't resolved itself yet because the Belgium manager will play him the full 90 at every given opportunity.
 
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