Capoue - Sprained ankle (4 weeks)

[Nocando]

Must be fake, doesn't have any players following him and only started once he had signed for us.

 

[Blake Griffin]

i agree with who said he's been the most impressive of our new signings. feel really bad for him and hope it's not as bad as suggested. fortunately sandro is coming back to full fitness now so we should be fine in that position(unless anything happens to him as well).

 

[WiganSpur]

We'll have to scrabble around with Paul and "clearly carrying that fucking hip problem" Moose.

Goddamn hips! Getting problems n shit.

Mercifully we have cover and even, if shit hits the fans again, Verts to come in and play DM if needs be. Can Churches also not play in midfield?

Point on Vlad, good on the ball isn't he? We could cope just about.

 

[FinnYid]

Capoue being majorly over rated on here. He does nothing going forward. Might as well be playing 5 Defenders. You could see we were a better side when Sandro came on for him. He is good back up but he can't be starting every week if we wanna challenge.

Yet scored 7 last season in Ligue 1, must've scored them behind halfway line.

 

[Babylon22]

Horrible. His world cup dream is over

 

[ajspurs]

A big blow for sure IMO. Can't get much better back up for the DM position that Sandro but I have to admit I wanted to see him continue occupying the position. He generally sits more than Sandro does and is more composed on the ball. I don't want it to sound like an unnecessary player comparison but I just really liked what he'd bought to the team and had enjoyed watching him.

 

[jerseyspur]

Probably easier to clarify what i was referring to earlier.
The ankle joint is essentially made up 3 bones, the fibula, tibia & the talus (one of the bones of the hind foot) & the associated ligaments that stabilise these (the lateral ligament which is made up of 3 components - & the medial/deltoid ligament) judging by the mechanism of injury, I suspected that there may have been a fractured ankle - & the most common type of injury pattern is associated with a fracture of the distal (lower) fibula & tibia.

As stated previously, if this a fractured 'ankle', the 'level' of the fracture at the fibula in relation to the talus will ultimately determine the severity. If the fibula is fractured below the level of the talus, then these can generally be treated conservatively & can be managed with a cast - you'd be looking at 6-8wks. If however, the fibula is fractured in line or above the level of the talus, this causes instability of the ankle joint due to disruption of the not only the above mentioned ligaments, but also the supporting ligament between the fibula & tibia & would therefore require surgery (open reduction & internal fixation - ORIF - a combination of screws & plates) to stabilise the ankle joint.
The rehabilitation for these is significantly longer - probably a minimum of 3months. This classification system is known as Weber's.

The comparisons between Ramseys injury is slightly extreme (although it's difficult to know exactly what the medical staff did on the pitch yesterday!) Ramseys injury was a compound or open fracture of the shaft of the tibia & fibula more proximally (higher up leg) & involve greater degrees of displacement & angulation of the bones involved. Because of the nature if his break, more than likely a stabilising 'rod' would've been used to align the tibia (from knee to ankle) during his surgery. Compound fractures are associated with much higher rates of infection as they are exposed to dirt etc at the time of injury & may have accounted for the delayed return date. From my point of view, Capoue injury looked a closed injury.

Bear in mind this is all speculation, as obviously we are not able to see the X-rays/scans etc, but based on solely on TV replays.

These guys have access to the best Surgeons, but more importantly the rehabilitation services & so often they are able to return significantly quicker than a average Joe Public...

 

[bassman]

L’Equipe are saying Etienne Capoue has pulled out of the France squad but has not broken or suffered a fracture to his leg, but there may be ligament damage !
I'm praying this is true , has anybody else heard any news ?

 

[Turlough McHugh]

for god sake

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Capoue being majorly over rated on here. He does nothing going forward. Might as well be playing 5 Defenders. You could see we were a better side when Sandro came on for him. He is good back up but he can't be starting every week if we wanna challenge.

Unlike that creative wizard Sandro ?

 

[Bus-Conductor]

L’Equipe are saying Etienne Capoue has pulled out of the France squad but has not broken or suffered a fracture to his leg, but there may be ligament damage !
I'm praying this is true , has anybody else heard any news ?

Ligaments can take just as long/longer to heal than fractures, not necessarily good news.

 

[InOffMeLeftShin]

Really hope the injury is not as bad as it looked. Been impressed with him since he joined. His role in the team may be slightly easier in terms of adapting to the Premier League and hitting the ground running but he was doing really well. Now we will need to accelerate Sandro's return (no bad thing if he is fit) and maybe we'll actually play a creative player in the middle.

 

[Booney]

Sure we were all saying similar things when Bale went over on his ankle last season in what looked like a much worse injury and he was back in 3-4 weeks.

They would have been able to X-ray his ankle pretty much then and there which means unless the club are deliberately holding back bad news of a break then I'm hopeful that's not happened. An MRI or ultrasound to look at soft tissue damage probably wouldn't get done on a Sunday as much harder to access.

My money is on ligaments....

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

Depends on the extent of the ligament damage could be anything from 1 month to 9 months, I guess.

 

[Ironskullll]

?

fracture = break.

Well, not really... I fractured my arm once and finished a match, and only went to the doctor when the pain didn't go away. And my son fractured his leg and didn't go to hospital for another week, again after the pain got too much. Shit the same happened once with my jaw. The point being that usually when we say fracture we mean crack. I have a cracked cup I drink my coffee from. I don't think it's the same as broken.... I hope that's the sort of distinction people are using when they say fracture or broken; the two words shoudn't be interchangeable.

 

[Ironskullll]

He's a defensive midflieder. If he ventured forward you'd probably be saying he's a liability and doesn't do his job. He's much more comfortable on the ball than Sandro is.

Agreed. I find it really weird how so many people here are judging players on what they didn't do rather than what they did do, without even speculating as to how the team was set up and to the effect of so many new players getting used to each other's play, and the likely longer term effect, reasonably hoped for, of AVB's coaching. It generally has something to do with ambition/creativity/attacking intent, and yet the goal we conceded arose directly from Chadli getting a little too ambitious just outside their box, losing the ball and within seconds they'd scored. So they actually scored as a result of inappropriate ambition. It's one of the things AVB managed to drive out of GB's game over the last year or so - he himself (GB) was once upon a time quite prone to losing the ball in bad positions, and yet....

 

[D-Man]

L’Equipe are saying Etienne Capoue has pulled out of the France squad but has not broken or suffered a fracture to his leg, but there may be ligament damage !
I'm praying this is true , has anybody else heard any news ?

I really hope this is true and it's what i thought it ight be at the time. Ligament damage is nasty but IMHO better than a break.

 

[EastLondonYid]

Losing him was worse than the result...

 

[SlunkSoma]

Looked like a ligament strain from the off, is very painful at the time but is not as serious. Here's hoping he recovers.

 

[gene b]

l'équipe not saying anything about ligament - they're just saying nothing's broken and that he's out for the international games.

http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Capoue-declare-forfait/397727