Player Watch Player Watch: Cristian Romero

[BorjeSpurs]

Welcome back Cuti.

One potential silverlining of the red card is that Romero could come back in good physical shape. In the last two seasons he has had hamstring injuries at this time of year, and hopefully a full month without any club games has allowed him to build up his fitness ahead of a busy winter schedule.

It's easy to forget that he has only averaged 24,5 PL games in his first two seasons with us.

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Guess the above was wishful thinking on my part.

 

[ajspurs]

It's just especially frustrating when you think about where we could be without all the injuries. Just typical to happen in a season where we have no European football, are in one domestic competition and the title (I know I know but still) is quite possibly up for grabs.

The good thing is that come the end of January things could look a hell of a lot brighter, but it feels like we may once again have to suffer a bit more now. Any win will feel massive now as really we just don't want to be too far adrift when everyone comes back. Could make a lot of difference if we're able to move early in the January window too.

 

[Cavehillspur]

This is just farcical now, just fuck off absolutely shite luck.

 

[Yiddo100]

It's the fact they're all prolonged injuries to key players, rather than 1 or 2 games, they're all missing 5 or 6 minimum. And also all at the same time. It's unprecedented. I genuinely can't remember a season this bad for it

It’s not just us aswell, fixtures need looking at.

 

[HildoSpur]

Did Ange break 100 mirrors or something? Our injuries this year are the worst in living memory and all to our key players.

 

[Stamford]

Call it reactionary if you want, though it was said at the time - but not signing another centre back in the summer was negligence of the highest order

Everyone said this in the summer . We always leave ourselves short.

 

[kent brockman]

Wonder if it is all bad luck, or if there is something wrong with our physical conditioning? Especially considering that we have far less games than most of our competitors.

 

[Johno1470]

Something is clearly wrong here.

Either the medical team needs replacing, or something needs to change in training.

Way too many muscle injuries for this stage of the season.

I doubt it’s the medical team. It’s more than likely the strength and conditioning coaches that need to be re-evaluating their work and focus on improving their sessions to better equip the players to cope with the workload.

 

[N'Obody]

Damn, thats such a shame. Yes we are having a horrible season with injuries. I still stand by the fact this was always a transition season to get Anges ideas imprinted into the squad. Wish Romero and the rest of boys a speedy recovery.

 

[mil1lion]

That whole style of play - Mourinho, Nuno and Conte. Especially as his disastrous tenure led directly to Nuno being the only sod who'd actually take the job that summer, and Conte then being one of very few realistic options to replace him.

Still VdV, Soloman and Maddison all arrived in the summer and have long term injuries

 

[King of the Lane]

Less games than others but way more injuries (excluding newcastle). Something doesnt seem right and it cant be just bad luck. I wonder if the full energy, pressing style is affecting our players at all.

 

[tommo84]

Really worried that the combination of injuries and international absentees means we’re going to lose to Burnley in the FA Cup, which is a sickener because I think with most of our players available and no European football we’d have a chance of winning the whole thing. Our injury luck in the last 2 months has been horrendous.

 

[rossdapep]

In my opinion there’s a lot of over analysing. Instead of enjoying the football people are caught up in how it’s all going to go wrong (some maybe even hoping so) and are nitpicking about errors, repeating lots of cliches about Sunday league football etc. I just think that’s a really sad attitude to have when for the first time in ages we’ve actually really enjoyable to watch and getting our act together.

Maybe it’s just a different attitude towards the game among posters which is fine, but we went for the “experts” in Mourinho and Conte and it was a car crash both times. Now we’re trying something new and I just don’t see we have much to lose after years of utter mediocrity.

Sorry to post this in here when it’s not really relevant to Romero but it’s where the chat has gone in here today.

Totally agree with this.

I love dissecting and analysing tactics but it's rather pointless because you could just relax and enjoy it.

We have and will make mistakes, who cares though, we are on the right path and analysing or gettting aggaravted at certain tactical/technical mistakes will just send you down a path where you nitpick and dont enjoy.

Leave that stuff to the coaches, they will be aware of all our shortcomings.

 

[GioW]

Really worried that the combination of injuries and international absentees means we’re going to lose to Burnley in the FA Cup, which is a sickener because I think with most of our players available and no European football we’d have a chance of winning the whole thing. Our injury luck in the last 2 months has been horrendous.

One of the first things I thought was that the FA Cup is in jeopardy now.

Won't be anyone back for that unless I'm mistaken.

 

[14/04/91]

Hopefully the hierarchy understand the need for strength in depth asap. The next 2 windows have to be extremely aggressive; we cannot start next season with any gaps in our squad.

 

[jonnyp]

The only positive of this horrid news is that hopefully (not holding my breath) it accelerates our plans for a new CB. We just cannot fuck around in January now, we need to pay up and get one in early.

 

[Japhet]

Our absentee list now is absolutely mind boggling.

Romero, VDV, Perisic, Sessegnon, Bentancur, Bissouma, Sarr, Maddison, Solomon, Son. God only knows how we're going to cope now but there's nobody I'd rather have than Ange to deal with it.

 

[14/04/91]

Thankfully (I guess), 4-5 weeks could translate to "only" 4 league matches and Ange said Micky might make United.

Hopefully. But do we really want to be relying on rushing them both back and hoping they both stay fit.
We simply have to sign another top quality cb in Jan and ideally early.
We can’t expect Romero & VdV to play every minute of every game.

 

[DCSPUR64]

The only positive of this horrid news is that hopefully (not holding my breath) it accelerates our plans for a new CB. We just cannot fuck around in January now, we need to pay up and get one in early.

Sell Dier, bring in a quality CB as a back up for MVDV and CR

 

[hutchiniho]

Something is clearly wrong here.

Either the medical team needs replacing, or something needs to change in training.

Way too many muscle injuries for this stage of the season.

This is what I was pondering also.
Would like to look up on Celtic’s injuries last few seasons.
The high line, recovery sprints for the defenders is definitely going to stress the big CBs hamstrings, compounded by the stop start nature of VAR.
with the Effect also increased with practicing this most days, you’d hope the money in our sports science medical department would be able to suggest something.

January without Cuti, VDV, Maddison, Bentancur, Sarr, Biss and Son. 7 genuine first teamers is going to be rough.