1 hour ago, just said:

Official from the club website.

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/injury-update-chalobah-and-chukwuemeka

When is Chalobah's injury even from?

13 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

When is Chalobah's injury even from?

Pre-season. It was called a hammy at the time.

Why is it that our players never seem to actually heal properly? Every time it's "they have had a set back" 

The thing is, it's not just us anymore, there are other clubs starting to suffer the same issues, we were just ahead of them by a couple of seasons.

Something is wrong with football. We want to see the best players play, but so many of them are getting injured.

11 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Why is it that our players never seem to actually heal properly? Every time it's "they have had a set back" 

The thing is, it's not just us anymore, there are other clubs starting to suffer the same issues, we were just ahead of them by a couple of seasons.

Something is wrong with football. We want to see the best players play, but so many of them are getting injured.

You see Tyler Adams? Re-ruptured his hamstring and will be out until February. No doubt if we signed him and this happened we would've blamed our medical team. 

Having inflated squads really is the future. 

Todd has invested heavily in our new medical room.

On 18/10/2023 at 17:30, just said:

Pour yourself a drink. Kick off your shoes and settle into your favourite chair.

Another week and it's another long read. N'kunku next January apparently.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-fc-injury-update-james-chukwuemeka-lavia-latest-news-return-dates-b1114238.html

Reece posting that he will be fit "against all odds", Cole "shakes off a hamstring" to play against a bunch of schoolboys, You couldn't make this sh*t up. 

I'm not a medical expert so we have to trust that the medical staff know what they're doing but surely we're not too far away from going down the surgery route given how much of a recurring injury this is. 

17 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

I'm not a medical expert so we have to trust that the medical staff know what they're doing but surely we're not too far away from going down the surgery route given how much of a recurring injury this is. 

I wonder how long surgery has been an option to fix him.

19 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

I wonder how long surgery has been an option to fix him.

You have to think it would have been on the table with the World Cup limiting injury, if not earlier. 

Edited October 21, 20232 yr by PhilH930

11 hours ago, PhilH930 said:

You have to think it would have been on the table with the World Cup limiting injury, if not earlier. 

Specialist surgeon - not the Chelsea medical staff - deemed the op unnecessary. You can only rely on expert advice. 

16 hours ago, timetowaste said:

I'm not a medical expert so we have to trust that the medical staff know what they're doing but surely we're not too far away from going down the surgery route given how much of a recurring injury this is. 

Looks like a carbon copy of Kante. Tried 101 remedies and then in the end he needed surgery.

Disasi and Jackson added, on the bench rather than starting.

Fofana, Badiashile, Chalobah, Chilwell, Lavia, Chuckwuemeka, Nkunku and Broja. And James, who clearly can't play any significant minutes yet.

Today Mudryk and Enzo were added to the list due to some muscle problems. We're playing once a week, it's not like the players are getting overworked, and yet instead of players coming back from injuries we're getting new ones every week.

Is it just bad luck becasue it feels like we're the most injury ridden team out there. And it goes all the way back to Tuchel time when we last had all the key players available to field our best first eleven. What's going on?

Edited October 28, 20232 yr by abramovich

It can't just be bad luck, teams playing 3 games a week has lesser injuries than us. Most of them weren't even injured in games, did they run too much or run too little in training, doing too much weights, not stretching properly? There has to be an inquest, the way players been going down, even a squad or 35 won't be enough. I could understand the injury tolls during Tuchel's last full season, we were playing 3 games a week and had no rest, this season was just madness.

I made a baseless claim that it had something to do with the training pitch at cobham. I can’t back that up at all or have any facts to draw on but something is wrong.

Tuchel had this problem 

Potter had this problem 

Poch is now having this problem 

 

This can’t be a coincidence.

In fairness today aside where it was bad again with a couple of what are hopefully one game injuries, it’s getting better. It’s not the type of thing that’s going to change overnight unfortunately. 

We seem to have some stock update phrases for our injury list :

"Progressing with the reconditioning phase of his rehabilitation" :  Lavia, Nkunku

"Starting the reconditioning phase of his rehabilitation" : Gusto

"Continuing to undergo his rehabilitation programme" :  Chilwell, Fofana, Chukwuemeka, Chalobah, Ugochukwu

 

I guess the reconditioning phase means building up match fitness after the injury has been fixed, and hence closer to a return ?

All very vague though LOL

Edited December 8, 20232 yr by Sexyfootball

7 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

We seem to have some stock update phrases for our injury list :

"Progressing with the reconditioning phase of his rehabilitation" :  Lavia, Nkunku

"Starting the reconditioning phase of his rehabilitation" : Gusto

"Continuing to undergo his rehabilitation programme" :  Chilwell, Fofana, Chukwuemeka, Chalobah, Ugochukwu

 

I guess the reconditioning phase means building up match fitness after the injury has been fixed, and hence closer to a return ?

All very vague though LOL

Yeah, it’s all very corporate and doesn’t tell much. Saying that, if Gusto is started the conditioning phase we won’t see him for 2-3 months at best based on how these statements unfold. 

Current levels of injuries by club:

Note the number of clubs whose injury list (while less players than us) is nevertheless resulting in a collapse of their form and league position ... in Arsenal's case only with 5 out LOL

10 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Current levels of injuries by club:

Note the number of clubs whose injury list (while less players than us) is nevertheless resulting in a collapse of their form and league position ... in Arsenal's case only with 5 out LOL

It would be interesting to compare the figures of, say, the previous 10 seasons: are numbers increasing, is there a link with number of played matches, including international tournaments, with far away pre-season destinations?

Who doesn't have a life to speak of, or wants to escape the one they're having?

I'm busy.

27 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Current levels of injuries by club:

Note the number of clubs whose injury list (while less players than us) is nevertheless resulting in a collapse of their form and league position ... in Arsenal's case only with 5 out LOL

Wow thats a lot of injuries

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

Current levels of injuries by club:

Note the number of clubs whose injury list (while less players than us) is nevertheless resulting in a collapse of their form and league position ... in Arsenal's case only with 5 out LOL

Feels like we’ve been at 8+ injuries for over a year now. Be really interesting to see what this squad could actually do if fit for a prolonged period of time. 

1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

Current levels of injuries by club:

Note the number of clubs whose injury list (while less players than us) is nevertheless resulting in a collapse of their form and league position ... in Arsenal's case only with 5 out LOL

Depends on whether good players or sh*te player are on a club's injury list too

1 hour ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

Wow thats a lot of injuries

There's a trophy if we end up top!

1 hour ago, PhilH930 said:

Feels like we’ve been at 8+ injuries for over a year now. Be really interesting to see what this squad could actually do if fit for a prolonged period of time. 

Yeah and that's where you notice the media bias. When we had more injuries than Brighton and Newcastle, you never heard it talked about. Once those media flavours of the month started picking injuries, there was no single commentary, positive or negative that didn't have their injury situation ad-libbed to fit the narrative

And that's why even though I have been mega pissed at Boehly's strategy I haven't been too harsh on the team nor Poch because we have never been able to play what would have been our first team squad all season.