Adebayor got malaria....

[eddiebailey]

This forces us into the transfer market. If Ade does not make a full and speedy recovery we will be depending either on Soldaldo turning around last season's form, or young Harry stepping up to the plate. Either is an unacceptable gamble. We need to sell before we can buy, and Ade was always going to be difficult to shift even when healthy; so I guess it is bye bye Bobby.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

This forces us into the transfer market. If Ade does not make a full and speedy recovery we will be depending either on Soldaldo turning around last season's form, or young Harry stepping up to the plate. Either is an unacceptable gamble. We need to sell before we can buy, and Ade was always going to be difficult to shift even when healthy; so I guess it is bye bye Bobby.

That doesn't make any sense to me. We can't rely on 2 strikers and 1 Ade who may or may not be fit, agreed.
But selling Soldado because we need a stronger strike-force because Ade is injured is a bit off IMO. Trading Soldado for 1 other player doesn't take us far at all. The situation will be the same, only with different names on the shirt.
If anything, I believe these latest news hands Soldado his chance, additionally we now may be seeking to add a striker, but I doubt we are looking to sell from our limited strike force.

 

[riggi]

I made sure i had my tablet everyday and a full can of repelant plus wore a ton of clothes. Paranoid is an understatement.

 

[bigfrooj]

I'm interested to see if Pochettino will bring along a youth striker like Coulthirst, Onomah or Coulibaly now. The US tour would be a useful place to run the rule over them.

Get well soon Ade.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

I made sure i had my tablet everyday and a full can of repelant plus wore a ton of clothes. Paranoid is an understatement.

What tablets did you take? Some of them are nuts! The dreams & hallucinations you get ... they're practically recreational!

I always take deltaprim when I go to a malaria area. 1 pill a week, from 1 week before going in until 6 weeks after going out, no noticeabke side effects & I've never got it despite being in a malaria area at least a month a year most of my life. But outside Africa is never prescribed & doctors don't seem to know what it is which I've always found odd

 

[eddiebailey]

That doesn't make any sense to me. We can't rely on 2 strikers and 1 Ade who may or may not be fit, agreed.
But selling Soldado because we need a stronger strike-force because Ade is injured is a bit off IMO. Trading Soldado for 1 other player doesn't take us far at all. The situation will be the same, only with different names on the shirt.
If anything, I believe these latest news hands Soldado his chance, additionally we now may be seeking to add a striker, but I doubt we are looking to sell from our limited strike force.

Problem is I am struggling to think of an instance where a highly rated striker who was the subject of a big transfer has failed in his first season at his new club and then succeeded in turning it around. Obviously his low goal return has a lot to do with AVB's stilted tactics, but even with Tim's more expansive style he was failing to get on the score sheet, and it was not due to lack of chances. After being starved of service so long his confidence is shot, and a striker low on confidence is not much use to anyone. With a fit Adebayor, it might just have been worth hanging onto Soldado as an option to see if he could get his mojo back, but to be honest I think it would be in his best interest for him to have a fresh start somewhere, perhaps in a league where defences are not so parsimonious. It would also make sense for Spurs to sell before his value declines further. If we can get back most of what we paid for him, it will free a squad place and finance the purchase of a replacement. As you say, any replacement will also be a gamble, but hopefully one where the odds are better.

 

[riggi]

What tablets did you take? Some of them are nuts! The dreams & hallucinations you get ... they're practically recreational!

I always take deltaprim when I go to a malaria area. 1 pill a week, from 1 week before going in until 6 weeks after going out, no noticeabke side effects & I've never got it despite being in a malaria area at least a month a year most of my life. But outside Africa is never prescribed & doctors don't seem to know what it is which I've always found odd

Can't remember but it was one a day and the more pricey of the lot.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

What tablets did you take? Some of them are nuts! The dreams & hallucinations you get ... they're practically recreational!

I always take deltaprim when I go to a malaria area. 1 pill a week, from 1 week before going in until 6 weeks after going out, no noticeabke side effects & I've never got it despite being in a malaria area at least a month a year most of my life. But outside Africa is never prescribed & doctors don't seem to know what it is which I've always found odd

Oooh deltaprim (Malosone in the UK, I think).
There can in fact be some nasty side effects, but that's for a completely different forum.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Oooh deltaprim (Malosone in the UK, I think).
There can in fact be some nasty side effects, but that's for a completely different forum.

Yes, but (as I understand it) after a long long time of permanent use, no? It's (again only my understanding) the least invasive if taken only periodically

 

[Flashspur]

Gordon Bennett....who would have thought.....bleeding malaria!

 

[Monkey boy]

What tablets did you take? Some of them are nuts! The dreams & hallucinations you get ... they're practically recreational!

I always take deltaprim when I go to a malaria area. 1 pill a week, from 1 week before going in until 6 weeks after going out, no noticeabke side effects & I've never got it despite being in a malaria area at least a month a year most of my life. But outside Africa is never prescribed & doctors don't seem to know what it is which I've always found odd

These drugs, I mean malaria tablets. Where would I get some from as I intend to erm travel to a malaria zone shortly. Ibiza is a malaria zone right?

 

[fatpiranha]

Why Ivory Coast....hes from Togo

No figures for Togo. Cote D'Ivoire was the nearest (or Burkina Faso). Basically West African malaria is the nasty type but does respond to treatment.

 

[SandroClegane]

Adebayor probably does have a virulent strain. Presumably he caught it in Cote D'Ivoire where 85% of malaria is P. Falciparum (the nasty one) and Cote D'Ivoire has one of the highest death rates in the world from malaria. The good news however, is that unlike a lot of malaria from SE Asia it's unlikely to be drug resistant and they sound like they've caught it early. He probably only caught it in the first place because he skipped taking his prophylactic antimalarials that the Spurs doctors would have insisted on so frankly my sympathy is pretty damn low.

It's all relative however. With treatment Adebayor will only suffer the equivalent of a bad bout of the flu. Compared with African Trypanosomiasis which untreated kills you 100% of the time (and the drug that may cure you melts plastic and kills you 5% of the time on its own) or naegleria, the brain eating amoeba that kills 97% of its victims even with best treatment (and leaves the rest brain damaged), malaria isn't so bad.

And this is why I will never go to Africa.

 

[Geyzer Soze]

And this is why I will never go to Africa.

 

[crokey]

Useless twat!

Get to fuck

 

[llamafarmer]

Oh god! Hide spoiler! Hide spoiler!

Spoiler

 

[Kiedis]

"Double training sessions? Working on an organised pressing game where "working hard" doesn't mean sprinting 30 yards twice every half to close down the goalkeeper before spending the next ten minutes walking back into an onside position? Screw this, I'm calling in sick."

 

[WalkerboyUK]

It's not like he's got ebola........ yet!

 

[gibbospurs]

Get to fuck

It was a tongue in cheek comment Ffs.

 

[knilly]

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I've had to have lots of malaria training with work and the dangerous part is the parasite can get you a good few months after you return from a malaria zone and long after you've stopped taking malarone or similar.

Our company lost someone a few years ago as he'd be working in Africa and about 3 weeks after getting back to Scotland he got ill. Everyone thought it was a cold but 4 days later he had died.

Fortunately effects if malaria get weaker each time you get it. A good friend of mine working in the Congo says he catches it every year but you usually get over it quickly once you've had it a few times. Long time use of malarone fucks your kidneys up and so treatment is usually preferred over prevention.

I spent 3 month in Cameroon earlier this year and seen a lot of our guys pick it up, stays with you for life.

Fingers crossed for a quick recovery for Ade.