Spurs physio watch

When did he say that?

 

Pretty much straight after the game.

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/03/09/mourinho-makes-bizarre-comment-about-spurs-january-signings-effo/

 

That's not exactly what he said and I can't say that I'm surprised that The Fail are misquoting someone:

"Let's see if it's something minor and he can make the effort."
He's been very positive about Bergwijn so far and specifically focused on the effort that he put in.
I don't think it's criticism, but him asking the player to play through the pain barrier if possible, which it clearly isn't now.

 

I don't watch his press conferences anymore, so I'll take that back. It's still a little negative but not as was widely reported and read by me.

I'm still on him for not having Parrott available to sub off Lucas/Dele/Bergwijn. It's all hands to the pumps and protecting the forwards that we've got left...but we've overplayed the kid, just like Kane and Sissoko. I wrote after the Norwich game that Parrott had to be there to be used to prevent exactly this. If a complete amateur can see it coming...

Mourinho has to manage for today, tomorrow and next season. Currently, it's not happening like that and it'll cost us all.

 

Fingers crossed everybody...

De Telegraaf are reporting that Bergwijn has avoided the broken ankle that people had feared, and the club are continuing to assess the injury to see the severity of it
https://www.telegraaf.nl/sport/1901159836/paniek-rond-blessure-steven-bergwijn-voorbarig

Of course, ankle injuries being ankle injuries, even with the best-case scenario we'll probably not see him until mid-to-late April

 

...but we have to maintain the injury quota

 

[space reserved for tweet revealing Sanchez picked up a knock]

 

Ffs not another injury

 

Depends how slight it is...

 

We don't get slight its always disastrous

 

Just in time for the season to be cancelled due to Chinese Death Flu

 

What, no time for a couple of games with a Winks/Sissoko pairing as a two in midfield?









Just for Mourinho to check if it might work...?

 

Someone's doing something wrong, aren't they?

 

While a lot of those injuries fall under "**** happens", notably Kane against Southampton and Hugo against Brighton, there is one thing that I have found worrying about the team this season: fitness, or the lack of it

While some of the blame for our running out of puff around the 70th minute in a lot of games this season can be put down to setting up the team in such a way that Harry Winks has to be a two-man pivot on his own, or that players with injury or illness problems going back to last season hit the wall, not all of it can

One comment I cannot shake is one made a few weeks after Eriksen joined Inter, where his lack of fitness was criticised. Now why would he be unfit? He didn't have any injury layoffs, and he was playing regularly so it's not like he had extended periods on the sidelines, yet his fitness was cause for public criticism

I hate to point the finger at an individual (especially since that individual's name is easy to find, and I'd hate for some bugger to come across it and start a Twitter campaign based off me saying his name here) but our fitness levels have dropped in the last year or so, and while some of that can be blamed onto the team coming towards the end of its peak or individual players being susceptible to injuries, on the other hand that doesn't explain how Danny Rose has remained as out of shape in 2019-20 as he was in 2017-18

 

Ah...

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A literal interpretation of the thread title:

If anyone out there was wondering how they could pick up a nice injury...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ne-two-to-three-weeks-ready-for-full-training

Trivial in the grand scheme of things but good news for us if the season does resume at some point

 

Harry Kane on Twitter today saying he's 3 weeks off fitness

 

Unfortunately football/society is further away from fitness

 

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...is really bored