1 hour ago, coco said:

We should of got his cover in the summer just gone, we knew he was going to get injured again, but someone decided to give Dave another season, another mad decision, yes it's hindsight, but Chelsea fans know an ageing RB when we see one and Dave was looking past it last season.

I think that's the only scenario having such a world class untouchable works against us. We lost two top prospects because they didn't fancy their chances and I imagine no one of note would come here just incase Reece gets injured.

With Chilwell it's different, as good as he is he's not at such a level so it's easier to imagine Cucurella fancying his chances.

This just reinforces we were right to buy another left back, ok Cucurella may not be as good as Chilwell offensively yet at least he is quicker about the pitch than Alonso.

We got too many injury prone players we will never be able to build a team around them  Its unfortunate but its time to move on from Kante,Chilwell ,Pulisic even Koulibaly It seem that half the team can't put a run of games together without picking up some type of injury 

11 minutes ago, Argo said:

I think that's the only scenario having such a world class untouchable works against us. We lost two top prospects because they didn't fancy their chances and I imagine no one of note would come here just incase Reece gets injured.

With Chilwell it's different, as good as he is he's not at such a level so it's easier to imagine Cucurella fancying his chances.

But over an extraordinary long season we could have offered another RB at least 15 games a season, maybe more with James's injury record, i don't see why we couldn't have just brought in one of our youngsters, full back position has always suited the younger players.

28 minutes ago, Argo said:

I think that's the only scenario having such a world class untouchable works against us. We lost two top prospects because they didn't fancy their chances and I imagine no one of note would come here just incase Reece gets injured.

With Chilwell it's different, as good as he is he's not at such a level so it's easier to imagine Cucurella fancying his chances.

We did, but both of them have suffered injuries (in Lamptey's case, a really serious one that has really harmed his development) which have curtailed their availability since they left us.

Poor Chilwell - he must be gutted to have a bad injury two seasons in  a row ...

As Cucurella is now first choice left back,  and off the grid for a centre back option, I think it is time we recalled Colwill as CB cover from Brighton. With the state of our defensive injuries, he might even play more for us now than for his loan club !

4 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Poor Chilwell - he must be gutted to have a bad injury two seasons in  a row ...

As Cucurella is now first choice left back,  and off the grid for a centre back option, I think it is time we recalled Colwill as CB cover from Brighton. With the state of our defensive injuries, he might even play more for us now than for his loan club !

Can we even do that?

2 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Can we even do that?

Imagine if we loaned a player from some club, and they came back after 3 months into the season and asked for him back.

11 minutes ago, coco said:

Imagine if we loaned a player from some club, and they came back after 3 months into the season and asked for him back.

I knew loaning out Colwill would be a bad move and it was foolish from both parties. 

2 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I knew loaning out Colwill would be a bad move and it was foolish from both parties. 

A lot of bad decisions were made this summer. Some will say it's easy to judge bad decisions with hindsight, but collectively those bad decisions make us look like complete newcomers.

Newcastle have had a summer of good decisions, the kind of decisions we should be making, they are the new Chelsea by the looks of it, and were the new barcodes.

It's going to take the next 3 transfer windows to get back to where we need to be, but that's only if we make the correct decisions, and i'm not confident we will.

1 minute ago, coco said:

A lot of bad decisions were made this summer. Some will say it's easy to judge bad decisions with hindsight, but collectively those bad decisions make us look like complete newcomers.

Newcastle have had a summer of good decisions, the kind of decisions we should be making, they are the new Chelsea by the looks of it, and were the new barcodes.

It's going to take the next 3 transfer windows to get back to where we need to be, but that's only if we make the correct decisions, and i'm not confident we will.

I'm not sure why the club felt it was OK to only have Koulibaly as our LCB and as for Colwill I am not sure why he thought sitting on Brighton's bench would be better than learning off of both Silva and Koulibaly. 

It's not even hindsight I was complaining about this all summer when Romano first broke the news Colwill wants to leave. 

3 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

as for Colwill I am not sure why he thought sitting on Brighton's bench

Yeah but it was Potters Brighton at the time, so maybe Colwill had words with Potter before agreeing a loan and thought he would get game time ?

12 minutes ago, coco said:

A lot of bad decisions were made this summer. Some will say it's easy to judge bad decisions with hindsight, but collectively those bad decisions make us look like complete newcomers.

Newcastle have had a summer of good decisions, the kind of decisions we should be making, they are the new Chelsea by the looks of it, and were the new barcodes.

It's going to take the next 3 transfer windows to get back to where we need to be, but that's only if we make the correct decisions, and i'm not confident we will.

If anything @cocowe are more like Arsenal used to be. Signing players who are well past their best (Willian= Aubameyang), overrated (Pepe=Sterling), or downgrades (Metarsacker = Cucurella and Koulibaly)

well f**kity f**k

1 hour ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Can we even do that?

No idea, but no harm in asking ... they aren't using him at all ... Colwill may not remotely be in the new manager's plans, in which case they might be glad not to have to keep paying him ?

Reading 3 months minimum. 

I knew we should have stick with Alonso

2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Reading 3 months minimum. 

Could do with a fullback who can play on both sides equally well.

2 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Could do with a fullback who can play on both sides equally well.

Terrible news.  Don't expect to see him until sometime in Feb.  Cucurella should get a longer run in the team in what is his better position of LB or LWB.

1 hour ago, coco said:

Aye Phillip Lahm was certainly one of those.

Moments like these is why we bought Cucu. Now hopefully, Potter uses him in LB. Hope Chilwell recovers soon. 

I'll also say it again that all these injuries are the fault of FIFA, UEFA and FA forcing players to play in a congested fixture list just to have a 'Winter World Cup'. 

8 minutes ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

I'll also say it again that all these injuries are the fault of FIFA, UEFA and FA forcing players to play in a congested fixture list just to have a 'Winter World Cup'. 

Not only this World Cup, but players have been playing without a meaningful rest since they restarted the league during COVID, playing the CL in August, then the season with less than a month of rest and the Eurocup followed. It's been 2-3 seasons non-stop. However, we have been hit more by injuries than others, let's say Arsenal or City.