World Cup 2022

Yeah my pre tournament pick but so far they’ve been bang average

 

Is he ever not injured?

 

Yes, when he plays

Except for this season, where we've played him when injured

 

You love a stat, work out how many games he’s actually fit and not injured or coming back from injury? I feel like he never plays more than 5 games in a row before he’s out again injured.

Just seen he missed 16 league games last season and has missed 7 already this season. Like I said, sicknote

 

This is dreadful it's like watching England play.

 

Meeeeessi!

 

I'll try and break down the run of games played to games missed

2021-2
Played 1 (vs The Sheikh Mansour Team)
Missed 4 (Wolves with a knee injury, benched for Watford, quarantine for Palace & Rennes)
Played 2 (Chelsea, Season Killer Cup vs Wolves)
Missed 1 (benched vs Arsenal)
Played 3 (Mura, Villa, Newcastle)
Missed 1 (not in squad vs Vitesse, Nuno left his starting xi at home)
Played 5 (West Scam, Season Killer Cup vs Burnley, Man Utd, Vitesse, Everton)
Missed 14 (hamstring injury between 21/11 and 5/2)
Played 17 (FA Cup vs Brighton, Southampton, Wolves, Mansourites, Burnley, Leeds, FA Cup vs Middlesbrough, Everton, Man Utd, Brighton, West Scam, Newcastle, Villa, Brighton, Brentford, Leicester, Saltypool)
Missed 3 (hip injury between 12/5 and 22/5, aka end of the season)

2022-3
Played 2 (Southampton, Chelsea)
Missed 3 (thigh injury between 20/8 and 31/8)
Played 2 (Fulham, Marseille)
Missed 1 (Mansourites, presumably fitness)
Played 8 (Sporting, Leicester, Runners, Eintracht, Brighton, Eintracht, Everton, Man Utd)
Missed 1 (Newcastle, knock)
Played 1 (Sporting)
Missed 5 (calf injury between 23/10 and 12/11, aka the midseason break)

Realistically the belief that he's a sicknote doesn't stack up, given he has several long stretches of appearances - and what really stands out is those stretches would likely be longer if he weren't dropped to the bench to be rested and/or Nuno having a tactical brainfart or we didn't blunder out of various cups to teams we shouldn't really be blundering out of cups to, specifically Mura and Middlesbrough

But what really sticks out is his thigh injury was expected to keep him out for half a dozen games, as reports at the time suggested he wouldn't be back until the Sporting match at the earliest, but he missed half that number...but has looked a half second slower on the turn ever since he did come back, and the fact he missed two oil baron matches with unspecified knocks, including the match he was initially expected to miss, certainly does make it look like he was rushed back too soon as he isn;t healed, and his performance against the Saudis (the actual ones, not the Geordie ones) reflects similar

 

Messi might just have saved them
First Argentina shot on target

 

One decent run of games in 18months isn’t good enough imo.

He’s Spurs best centre back (which isn’t hard) but he needs to be more reliable rather than everyone worried he’s gonna break down again

 

Martin- eh-fef-fef-fef-fef-eh-fef-eh-fef

< Chris Waddle >

 

Again, he actually had two runs, it's just one was interrupted by Nuno's baffling squad selection policies for a couple of games

Case in point, you see the Vitesse game he missed? After some digging I remembered why: Nuno left most of the first team at home for that game, as Romero was joined by Kane, Son, Hojbjerg, Dier, Lloris, Skipp, Reguilon, Emerson, Lucas and (bafflingly) Ndombele in sitting at home with their feet up as our reserves started the game while our U23s were on the bench

 

Nuno left ages ago, Romero’s issues have followed him since he joined.

Let’s hope he comes back from the World Cup ready to play lots of games. I won’t be holding my breath though

 

Yet Nuno is also the reason people have a Mandela Effect of him being injured, as Nuno leaving him out of games have people presuming he was injured for them

 

Its not a Mandela effect when he is in fact injured a lot

 

The thigh injury was in the game against the Chavs when Cuccurella stamped on his thigh, which was ignored by the referee and VAR and the press. You could say he had the last laugh before our equaliser

 

Similarly, the knee injury at the start of 2021-2 was due to getting clattered against Chile

 

FFS, he's not even in the squad and the pundits are still mispronouncing Keisuke Honda's name

It's "Kay-skay", not "Key-sook"

 

It is when he isn't

Or the injuries are a result of opponents injuring him

 

Anthony Taylor will be the ref fir Korwa vs Ghana

Sonny injury guaranteed