Mantis Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 With the way people were talking about "9-12 months" I'm almost relieved, tbh. I'd mentally prepared myself for him being out for the rest of this season but missing a significant chunk of next season would've been too much. Hopefully that shouldn't happen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted February 12 VT Supporter Share Posted February 12 Outright disaster. We are bad without him or when he's off it, and there's no-one in the squad that does the same job. Nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Damn - that's a nightmare. At least the medical staff should be shit hot on acl recovery by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Oh FFS Why is every seemingly innocuous injury is always a disaster for Villa. We're f**ked. Shouldn't have led Donk go out on loan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 3 minutes ago, Leeroy said: Yep, season over. It was fun while it lasted. It's a huge blow yes, but the season isn't over. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 3 minutes ago, M_Afro said: Poor old Boubs. Get well soon. It’s a position where we are light on options too. Light? We have no options, we have loaned out the only option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MrBlack Posted February 12 Popular Post Share Posted February 12 1 minute ago, The Fun Factory said: Oh FFS Why is every seemingly innocuous injury is always a disaster for Villa. We're f**ked. Shouldn't have led Donk go out on loan. I'd rather we played Tim than Donk in his role. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Just now, The_Steve said: It's a huge blow yes, but the season isn't over. Yeah that's my take too. People were saying similar when we lost both Mings and Buendia. People are absolutely right to be concerned (I am too) but throwing in the towel and declaring the season over is absurd. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Just now, The_Steve said: 4 minutes ago, Leeroy said: Yep, season over. It was fun while it lasted. It's a huge blow yes, but the season isn't over. Agreed, we still have Luiz, Tielemans, McGinn and Ramsey along with Tim. yes Kamara plays a specific role but we’ll have to adapt our shape and we still have quality midfielders to play a different way in midfield. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Gutted, insane bad luck with injuries this season. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlack Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Such a shit season for injuries. We got lucky last year. I was reading yesterday how we have made the fewest changes to our starting 11 of any PL team, and have the highest number of players that have played over 1000 minutes. This is surely no coincidence when it comes to our injuries. For all of Emery's good work, he's been limited by the quality of our backups that have effectively forced him to either sacrifice a game, or play our first choice. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I'm sure we'd have prioritised one competition if we knew these injuries were going to happen, but who's to say they wouldn't have happened anyway. It sucks, but we'll move on and the good start to the season we had should mean we can still finish top 6, maybe even top 5 if United return to type. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 At least he’ll get plenty of time with his newborn child. Hopefully the club’s duty of care will be exemplary and he appreciates it so much, he’ll become attached to the club and commit himself here for a long time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herman22 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 That’s disastrous! The third injury of this type in 6 months. Amazingly bad luck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishVilla10 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 No luck whatsoever, I wonder is it the same leg again? I’d like to see Tim in there from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 1 minute ago, MrBlack said: Such a shit season for injuries. We got lucky last year. I was reading yesterday how we have made the fewest changes to our starting 11 of any PL team, and have the highest number of players that have played over 1000 minutes. This is surely no coincidence when it comes to our injuries. For all of Emery's good work, he's been limited by the quality of our backups that have effectively forced him to either sacrifice a game, or play our first choice. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and I'm sure we'd have prioritised one competition if we knew these injuries were going to happen, but who's to say they wouldn't have happened anyway. It sucks, but we'll move on and the good start to the season we had should mean we can still finish top 6, maybe even top 5 if United return to type. It works both ways though. We've had to play players more than we like precisely because we've had such shit luck with injuries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 2 minutes ago, Mantis said: Yeah that's my take too. People were saying similar when we lost both Mings and Buendia. People are absolutely right to be concerned (I am too) but throwing in the towel and declaring the season over is absurd. Oh absolutely, I’m greatly concerned, but I have faith in Unai and the lads. Given the circumstances, there’s still a lot to play for and enough quality in the team still to get crucial points on the board. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Just need Watkins to do his ACL next to round off the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Confirmed out and ACL now by Athletic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkLillis Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Not the best news. However we have to deal with it the best way we can. We aren’t the only side with crucial players out injured. We are just the only side that the media will ignore when it comes to injuries. There will no injury hit Villa battling on reports you can bet on that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkiller1981 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 This is getting ridiculous now have any other teams had three season destroying and career ruining (in the sense that no player returns better from an acl) in one season to key players. I knew the league was corrupt but I didn’t realise that the premier league gods were so keen to keep the premier league top 4 a closer shop. But hey nobody has suffered as much as spurs from injuries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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