BBC reporting James could be out of the Panama match due to a hamstring injury. ☹️

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World Cup 2026: Reece James and Declan Rice injury concer...

England's Reece James and Declan Rice miss England's penultimate training session before Panama with injury concerns.

3 hours ago, just said:

BBC reporting James could be out of the Panama match due to a hamstring injury. ☹️

BBC Sport

World Cup 2026: Reece James and Declan Rice injury concer...

England's Reece James and Declan Rice miss England's penultimate training session before Panama with injury concerns.

Why should today be different?

Fabrizio Romano on X: "🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 BREAKING: Reece James, out for England with hamstring injury. ❌ He’ll miss at least next two World Cup games, reports @Guardian. https://t.co/sjxj6D8rqc" / X

James is f**ked. What are we going to do? keep taking him out of games after a certain amount of minutes to protect him? keep leaving him out of crucial games when we need our best players available? James is now holding us back. We need to put sentimentality aside and face reality, we need a replacement.

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

James is f**ked. What are we going to do? keep taking him out of games after a certain amount of minutes to protect him? keep leaving him out of crucial games when we need our best players available? James is now holding us back. We need to put sentimentality aside and face reality, we need a replacement.

I actually think there is a decent case for having separate captains next season ... a club captain (Reece) and a different playing captain who has reliable fitness and will start 30+ PL games a season, as well as actual leadership skills (don't rate James for that - he is too passive). No idea who that might be though LOL.

Time to accept he can’t be relied upon long term. Great guy and it’s rotten luck but we need to be realistic with this one.

15 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

I actually think there is a decent case for having separate captains next season ... a club captain (Reece) and a different playing captain who has reliable fitness and will start 30+ PL games a season, as well as actual leadership skills (don't rate James for that - he is too passive). No idea who that might be though LOL.

Think its' pretty obvious.

Badiashile.

I can see the club converting James to CDM as he doesn’t appear to hold up to the full back / wing back running. Sky reported this is James tenth hamstring injury since 2020.

All the more intrigued to see Palestra. Also pleased to have defenders joining over 6ft tall. Colwill, Hato, Palestra, insert other CB, maybe Wharton - a bit more presence defending set pieces.

8 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

I actually think there is a decent case for having separate captains next season ... a club captain (Reece) and a different playing captain who has reliable fitness and will start 30+ PL games a season, as well as actual leadership skills (don't rate James for that - he is too passive). No idea who that might be though LOL.

We've done that before actually.

Just play him in the big games. 25 games a season from, no different from what Madrid did with Bale.

World class.

40 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Just play him in the big games. 25 games a season from, no different from what Madrid did with Bale.

World class.

Bale's issues at RM weren't fitness related.

Guy should just retire.

He’s World Class, he’s also not capable of being a professional Premier League footballer. Crying shame.

How’s RLC been doing in Serie A? Reece profiles very similarly to him with these recurring injuries. Maybe a move is best?

23 hours ago, dermott said:

Bale's issues at RM weren't fitness related.

From our season review of 25/26 season on the club website

Reece James

Total appearances: 39 (29 starts)

Minutes played: 2,951

Goals: 2

"Our captain enjoyed an excellent campaign, putting previous injury issues behind him by racking up 39 appearances in all competitions.

James scored on his 200th Chelsea appearance, away to Nottingham Forest, and a brilliant free-kick at Newcastle in December was unsurprisingly voted our Goal of the Month."....

He was managed through every game, don't know how many games he completed, but he certainly was NOT injury prone

Now that f**king idiot Tuchel has played him for over 90 minutes in each back to back games and has the front to say " no one saw that coming " even though he was our coach during the time when Reece was missing numerous games due to continuous injuries.

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