Player Watch Player Watch: Son Heung-min

[taidgh]

Gutted for him, especially being a poster boy for country, Asia and us. But I'm quite confident he will make the WC. South Korea is one of the world best in constructive/facial/cosmetic surgery. He will be in perfect hands.

lol. they may be great at it, and he'll definitely look great after, but they can't heal bones faster than anyone else.

 

[glacierSpurs]

lol. they may be great at it, and he'll definitely look great after, but they can't heal bones faster than anyone else.

We will know soon ?

 

[philll]

It's a pretty standard "we'll see" response but it sounds like the KFA aren't automatically ruling him out of the World Cup...

 

[lol]

A break could be a blessing in disguise

 

[garyhopkins]

I'm absolutely gutted for Sonny. It reminds me of the horrific 'assault' Justin Fashanu made on Gary Mabbutt which shattered his cheekbone and broke his eye socket. I'm sure I heard Gary say a while back, he's never recovered any feeling in his cheekbone to this very day.

Not wishing to be overly pedantic, but it was John Fashanu not Justin Fashanu. Justin really wasn't that kind of player and you shouldn't sully his footballing prowess. Justin is remembered for a wonderful goal of the season and being the first professional footballer to come out as gay before a very sad ending to his life. John, on the otherhand, was a cohort of Vinnie Jones, and I need say no more.

As for Sonny, I'm gutted too but he'll be back.

 

[Dov67]

So upset for him. Haven't heard anything credible on the recuperation period at all - at this point it could be 3 weeks, 2 weeks or 4 months.


Players missing their chance of being in a world cup is a natural consequence of having this festival of corruption and slave labour (AKA the Qatar World Cup) in the middle of the European football league season, because nobody knew that you cannot even walk down the street in Doha in July let alone play professional sport.......took FIFA representatives completely by surprise don't you know.

 

[jurgen11]

I've said it before and Ill say it again , this WC is complete bollox. The schedule has crippled us and we are not alone. CL and EL group stages done at the start of Nov instead of end Dec plus crucial league games coming thick and fast. Look at all the injuries. The Premier League will start on Boxing Day with half the players on crutches and we will have Chirpy and Doris the tea lady lining up in the Carabao and FA Cup and other teams will follow suit devaluing the competitions further. And what about all these young players , injured so cannot play , shattered dreams of representing their country because of decisions made for profit and greed when they were 11 years old..fuck international football ( I am off to post this in the Qatar thread !)

 

[Stamford]

I don't know what the World Cup schedule has to do with anything. This could have happened to him in march or April and he would miss it. It's just bad luck

 

[easley91]

No point speculating about a return until after the surgery really. Gutting if he does miss the World Cup, though. I actually enjoy watching our players on the world stage and see them do well for their countries.

 

[jurgen11]

I don't know what the World Cup schedule has to do with anything. This could have happened to him in march or April and he would miss it. It's just bad luck

The incident is bad luck , the amount of injuries across the league is not

 

[C1w8]

I don't know what the World Cup schedule has to do with anything. This could have happened to him in march or April and he would miss it. It's just bad luck

If it happened to him in March or April with the usual scheduling he would have had two or three months to recover instead of three weeks.

Normally theres a month off between the season and world cup instead we have 10 days to shoehorn this world cup into december for qatar.

Yes its luck, but now the margin for bad luck is a lot higher as the schedule is so compact. Worst case scenario you'd have neymar kane mbappe etc pick up injuries before the "break" that require one month recovery times and knock them out of the first part of the tournament which would serve fifa right tbh.


Hope Son is able to make it as he deserves to, will be his last peak world cup.

 

[wadewill]

The incident is bad luck , the amount of injuries across the league is not

It's subconsciously in everybody's mind now, anyone is naive to think that this Winter WC hasn't had a huge impact on this season so far.

It's unbelievably unlucky for Sonny to get an injury like that so close to the break

 

[mil1lion]

I'm absolutely gutted for Sonny. It reminds me of the horrific 'assault' Justin Fashanu made on Gary Mabbutt which shattered his cheekbone and broke his eye socket. I'm sure I heard Gary say a while back, he's never recovered any feeling in his cheekbone to this very day.

It wasn't that bad

 

[wadewill]

If it happened to him in March or April with the usual scheduling he would have had two or three months to recover instead of three weeks.

Normally theres a month off between the season and world cup instead we have 10 days to shoehorn this world cup into december for qatar.

Yes its luck, but now the margin for bad luck is a lot higher as the schedule is so compact. Worst case scenario you'd have neymar kane mbappe etc pick up injuries before the "break" that require one month recovery times and knock them out of the first part of the tournament which would serve fifa right tbh.


Hope Son is able to make it as he deserves to, will be his last peak world cup.

Half of me is hoping Messi picks up an injury that keeps him out, but wouldn't have in a normal WC schedule. They deserve to have their big tournament narrative ruined because of the utter disgrace they have created.

 

[Dave1882]

I'm absolutely gutted for Sonny. It reminds me of the horrific 'assault' Justin Fashanu made on Gary Mabbutt which shattered his cheekbone and broke his eye socket. I'm sure I heard Gary say a while back, he's never recovered any feeling in his cheekbone to this very day.

It was nothing like that. The elbow on Mabbut was deliberate and premeditated.
One on Son was a coming together like we see 20x every game

 

[Spurslove]

Not wishing to be overly pedantic, but it was John Fashanu not Justin Fashanu. Justin really wasn't that kind of player and you shouldn't sully his footballing prowess. Justin is remembered for a wonderful goal of the season and being the first professional footballer to come out as gay before a very sad ending to his life. John, on the otherhand, was a cohort of Vinnie Jones, and I need say no more.

As for Sonny, I'm gutted too but he'll be back.

Yes, thanks for correcting me, it was indeed that horrible swine JOHN Fashanu.

 

[Spurslove]

It wasn't that bad

No thank God but it just reminded me of that horrible swine John Fashanu's attack on Mabbutt.

 

[Gb160]

No point speculating about a return until after the surgery really. Gutting if he does miss the World Cup, though. I actually enjoy watching our players on the world stage and see them do well for their countries.

Haha good one.

 

[Freddie]

Well from a personally selfish perspective if its gonna happen its not the worst time for it to happen.

Psychologically it'd be such a huge blow for him to miss the world cup though. I know his form couldn't get much worse but I wonder in what state of mind he'd come back in if that happened.

 

[YB123]

If i was Sonny, I'd stay well clear of the spurs medical team when recovering from this.