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The Havertz's Knee Memorial Injury Thread

JazzG

Arteta and our players need to smarten up to this shit, fucking pointless friendly and we've lost a key player.

Qwiss

JazzG Foden Hasn't played the last 2 games for City. Haaland played the same match. You can't just stop players who want to go on international duty.

Burnwinter

Well, shit. Let's see what happens. We've all understood how reliant the team is on Ødegaard, but perhaps this is the moment for Nwaneri. Overall it'll be a huge blow overall if Øde is out for the derby and City, but there are modest upsides to us being forced to improvise and be pragmatic.

flobaba

The moment for Nwaneri? He's a 17 year old. I am not sure the NLD is the perfect opportunity to blood him into the first team...

Burnwinter

flobaba I'm not talking about starting him.

USArsenal

i dont like the narrative of 'chelsea pulled palmer and city pulled foden'. First, they are not the main players on their national team, and the are not capatains either. That said, im sick of international games this often, its getting so annoying, and the players are starting not to like it either.

Asterix

We used up a lot of injury luck last season. Fingers crossed for Martin.

Daz

Asterix We did. I don't want to be a negative Nelly, but I just have a bad feeling that this season is going to be disappointing. Hopefully I'm wrong of course.

Gazza M

Asterix yeah I thought the same. in terms of the law of averages, we were fortunate with the health of our spinal players last season

Asterix

Daz yeah I'm already feeling like this one won't be a lucky season. I know it's only early September and I hope I'm wrong of course. To quote the immortal Dennis Denuto - "it's just the vibe of the thing".

daredevil

Daz

Someone mentioned that no team in PL history has improved its points tally 6 years in a row (didn't fact check it, so take it for what it's worth). Our run in the second half of last season was so incredible, which in time it might look like the peak.

awooga83

Gazza M yep this point exactly, the brutality of trying to compete with a City you need to be pretty much perfect and then get luck with injuries some other outcomes. We had a pretty great run with Ode and Saka but over a long term there is a good chance that they are affected with injuries at some point and on that run we couldn't capitalise in terms of beating them to the title.

Burnwinter

We've all known any big injury to Øde would hit us. He was injured for a bit before Christmas last season and it hit us pretty hard that time, we had real trouble finishing matches off for a while.

Vibe isn't great with Rice suspended and two other starters in midfield injured, but there's this natural reaction if we dip away from our record-breaking form from Dubai in January to the end of last season. We're still strong, if we somehow scratch out points from the next couple of matches we'll be singing.

QuincyAbeyie

Qwiss not really a pointless friendly either. Most Norwegians think they have a better chance at qualifying through the Nations League than through the regular qualifiers. The match was sold out.

JazzG

Qwiss Foden Hasn't played the last 2 games for City. Haaland played the same match. You can't just stop players who want to go on international duty.

Foden I agree with but Palmer has 100% been pulled. I am more annoyed at this stupid international scheduling.

It sounds like Odegaard already had a knock which we got him to play through so I find it hard to get my head around why we let him go, I get he's the captain but we need to look after our players.

Gazza M

bit of positive news

flobaba

Gazza M If I am Arteta, anything less than 100% on the ankle and I keep him out of the derby game. Not worth the risk.

Qwiss

JazzG maybe Palmer doesn't care about England. Ode cares about Norway, what can you do?

Coombs

Qwiss you make hard choices.

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