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Tommy T

Meatwad

has all the ability except availability.

Qwiss

Sicario2 - Tier 1 It’s a miracle we’ve had lasted this long in the season without a long term injury to our defence

Timber

Gazza M

fuck sake. knew it was coming after this run of form. he would've been so key in these big games against villa and liverpool

blanco needs to snap out of beach mode and get ready to hold it down again

Clrnc

4 to 6 weeks out. I'm hoping it's 6 weeks so he will miss the Asian Cup and the injury will be a blessing in disguise for us.

If Japan risks him then it will be stupid

Burnwinter

Damn shame but told you so.

Mini defensive crisis now as far as the big aways go. White in poor form, dodgy Frer Zinchenko and the still a bit green Kiwior don't exactly inspire versus that Liverpool attack. Perhaps it's Jakub's time to truly step up and deliver a couple of landmark ninety minute stretches.

Clrnc

Burnwinter Mate, no worries on that front. We have great depth.

Havertz can play as LB

Don Pacifico

Burnwinter I'm not worried about White. He's shown more than enough to prove he can be relied on. Assuming Tomi is back by mid-Jan, he should be fine to cover off the required minutes.

The bigger issue for me is that we now only have Kiwior as cover for Zinchenko, which is less than ideal given the former is still yet to prove he can be a properly two-way defender and the latter is still yet to prove his fitness can be relied on.

Edit: actually just realised that if one of our CBs get injured, we worryingly close to Cedric getting game time.

goon

Burnwinter White in poor form

I don't know why everyone's suddenly talking about White in these terms. Is it just because Tomi is flavour of the month? He's been great most of the season and had maybe one bad game just before the internationals where he was carrying an injury.

Overall he was pretty good last night too. For me he's still our first choice right back.

Burnwinter

Clrnc We can play Kiwior at 8 then, he's allegedly good on the ball

Clrnc

Burnwinter You are not far off, Kiwior played an entire season in Serie A as a 6.

Qwiss

goon yep White still excellent. Loving Tomi too but no worries really. I'd have had both in for Liverpool if fit but Zinny and White are proven in our back 4.

invisibleman18

Good player but too high in the pecking order for someone who can't play more than a handful of games without breaking down. Did we do a proper medical?

QuincyAbeyie

invisibleman18 You always suspect our medicals. 😆 I don't know much about that, but I'd assume the process is fairly standard and that we don't have some terrible kind of medical compared to other clubs.

invisibleman18

QuincyAbeyie Fair enough it's probably no worse than other clubs, and I'm not really being totally serious. Just can't help feeling a little skeptical when there are players like this who repeatedly break down after playing a few games in a row. Like was there a red flag we might have missed and could we have signed someone more robust instead? Or maybe it's just bad luck.

Clrnc

Annoyingly recovered way too fast. Called up for Japan.

Thankfully the Asian Cup also took Endo, Son and surprisingly Mitoma (who is injured till Feb) away

Claudius

Clrnc it really would’ve been nice to see a rotation with Tommy, White and Timber. Arteta wants big centre backs, and Timber with one of the other two would give us enough ball playing to offset the loss of Zinchenko, while giving us the security and steel

HomeSteak

Unpopular opinion, but the guy misses on average 67 days per season with injuries. Now add the Asian Cup time he will be away. I'm sorry but we must keep away from players like this, as much as I like him and I do...but he cannot be taken serious. Simple as. Thats 2 month per year out injured, and we all know you do not just come back match sharp, you come back fit, sure, but players need a few games to get that game sharpness back...so the amount of time to really have him at 100% is much longer then the 2 months he is out . And now, every time the Asian Cup roles around you add another month of this. Nah, you cannot have people like this in the team, and then cry that you have bad luck with injuries and it affected the season, thats just bad preparation. Not even gonna mention that the guy he is fighting for the left back spot is also injury prone, and Timber got one of the worst injuries a football player can get. Then you have to factor in that on right side we only have Ben White who can never take a break because Tomyiasu cannot stay fit to save his life. Even if we extend, just sell in the summer and get a proper player. Not a real player

invisibleman18

A decent enough player when available but is currently higher in the pecking order than his reliability warrants. No issue with keeping him provided he doesn't remain the only fullback cover.

HomeSteak

Missed the first game vs Vietnam. Not even on the bench, not training with the team. Rumours of an injury

Clrnc

HomeSteak Yeah read the Japanese news said we rushed him back from injury and he played through injury again which aggravated it apparently. But not serious

invisibleman18

HomeSteak

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Lol

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