Minor calf strain. Typical pre season injury but worrying because it’s Reece

9 minutes ago, abramovich said:

It's getting ridiculous at this point. Last season he couldn't finish the season opener, now he starts beaking down before the season even started.

Not even during a game.  If you can't get through training it's going to be tough.

Time for Reece to become a global ambassador, give stadium tours and start getting himself on the after dinner speakers circuit.

5 minutes ago, 19seventyone said:

Minor calf strain. Typical pre season injury but worrying because it’s Reece

Hamstring again it said. Where is the source for a calf strain. Calf is good, hammies again bad potentially 

Smdh

Bloke has zero luck. 

Honestly given up on him now, great player but completely unreliable shouldn’t be captain. Thank f**k we have the brilliant Gusto.

Probably time to retire unfortunately 

1 hour ago, WhiteWall said:

Hamstring again it said. Where is the source for a calf strain. Calf is good, hammies again bad potentially 

Apologies, I’ve no idea why I typed calf instead of hamstring 

Just now, 19seventyone said:

Apologies, I’ve no idea why I typed calf instead of hamstring 

No worries. My heart lifted a beat when I read your post, but even that's been dashed now 

Is this the worst pre season. 

1 hour ago, dan_cfc said:

Honestly given up on him now, great player but completely unreliable shouldn’t be captain. Thank f**k we have the brilliant Gusto.

Now we need a backup to Gusto! 

6 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Now we need a backup to Gusto! 

Nah, they'll be looking to sell him. Pure profit mate

Man this is rough, got to feel for him. Any other body part and I’d be less worried but hamstring suggests the surgery hasn’t fully solved the problem.

Luckily we have gusto but we are at the point we are going to have to consider planning for life without him if this carries on

‘Surgery discomfort’. Thought it was a new tear. 
 

Not so serious then. Makes sense given he’s played a lot of football and hasn’t done anything this intense since his surgery. 

9 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Nah, they'll be looking to sell him. Pure profit mate

And it will be the right decision this time. Great player but not everyone is built physically to withstand the rigours of being a professional athlete. 

2 minutes ago, abister1 said:

And it will be the right decision this time. Great player but not everyone is built physically to withstand the rigours of being a professional athlete. 

Not talking about him actually,  I was referring to Acheampong. But you are right. Probably time to cash in but again dwindling asset value with every injury set back.

8 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

‘Surgery discomfort’. Thought it was a new tear. 
 

Not so serious then. Makes sense given he’s played a lot of football and hasn’t done anything this intense since his surgery. 

Hopefully that’s all it is. 

Gusto to fill in with Acheampong backup 👍

2 hours ago, Gordon Bennett said:

Gusto to fill in with Acheampong backup 👍

Assuming we don't sell Acheampong.

3 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

‘Surgery discomfort’. Thought it was a new tear. 
 

Not so serious then. Makes sense given he’s played a lot of football and hasn’t done anything this intense since his surgery. 

Fingers crossed it is just a minor tweak following return from surgery. Although we've seen this kind of thing before where a "minor injury" leads to player disappearing for months on end.

He is out for first 3 games anyway - so hopefully it has zero impact on the team.

However there are a couple of players that need to be playing for their future this season, and that is in terms of both quality and quantity. James, Chilly, Fofana, Nkunku and Lavia all need to be fit and available for at least 25-30 games this season. If they are not, then I think time to move them on.

Wait he’s injured again?

11 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

‘Surgery discomfort’. Thought it was a new tear. 
 

Not so serious then. Makes sense given he’s played a lot of football and hasn’t done anything this intense since his surgery. 

Hopefully that is all it is, but even with Nkunku last season, the sources to the club downplayed the severeness of the injuries then turned out it was worse than suspected both times.

12 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

‘Surgery discomfort’. Thought it was a new tear. 
 

Not so serious then. Makes sense given he’s played a lot of football and hasn’t done anything this intense since his surgery. 

Possibly scar tissue then. It's a horrible thing, I had it when i did my collateral ligament. My treatment was basically a physio rubbing the scar tissue for 10 minutes at a time to break it down, the pain was ridiculous. I'm pretty sure there's a much less medieval treatment now ha ha...

We should expect him back in January. Not least because once he returns to the side around November he'll probably go in 2 footed within the first 5 minutes and get banned for another 3 games.

4 hours ago, dkw said:

Possibly scar tissue then. It's a horrible thing, I had it when i did my collateral ligament. My treatment was basically a physio rubbing the scar tissue for 10 minutes at a time to break it down, the pain was ridiculous. I'm pretty sure there's a much less medieval treatment now ha ha...

You and your odd massage requests.....

....did you ever manage to get hold of one of those 'milking' tables?