would’nt surprise me that this injury is due to be overplayed since returning from the broken leg
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It’s worth noting that getting his leg snapped in a shocking late tackle is hardly his or the clubs fault.
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Let’s wait how he’s doing in preseason and the first few months after.
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Agreed.
Problem is…when he downed tools with the Sandcastles…and we bought him…that was the same thought…give him some time to train with the 1st team…see how he gets on in a few weeks…and here we again…
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What is it? 
2 bambi’s up front…dress em both the same..same hairdo’s…try n confuse the defence…
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Not sharing the pitch at any time! But half joking aside, at their best, they are too similar to be playing together, in my opinion. One of them, supported by Wirtz and two creative wingers looks like the way to go forward - if both overcome their respective injury issues.
I think we have to cut the guy some slack for this year.
As we all know it was a torrid start, record transfer pressure, then major injury just as he gets going and scores. Comes back to fitness, scores and what could go wrong?
The injury timing was pretty much in line with the season - fucked. To add salt to the wound it was v that mob we despise and naturally lose. With no Hugo and Mo to add further salt.
Enter pile on.
I’m a hugely frustrated supporter right now like all Tanners. However I will reserve judgement until next season. It’s easy to lose patience very quickly. I’m still confident he ain’t no Kieta, Carroll, Darwin, Kewell, Benteke, Thiago etc who were either unlucky crocks or not the value we craved.
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The injury prior to this past weekend was probably the most frustrated I’ve been with Isak so far. I know he had a reputation for these kinds of minor injuries in the past, but the timing could not have been worse.
It’s a lost season for him. The hope is that he kicks on for Sweden and comes into next season fit and firing. Because without Ekitike, he’s going to have to lead the line.
My hope is that we add some wingers who can offer him service, because that’s what he’s clearly lacked here. Salah and Gakpo are not the kind of wingers who can platform a pure striker like Isak. You need guys who can maintain width and make crosses into the box.
Ideally, you’d get wingers who are versatile enough to beat their man and who can also provide Isak service.
And Isak is going to have to adjust, too. He’s going to have to come back to the ball. Look for service from the middle of the pitch. Create some duo dynamic with Ekitike when he returns.
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He historically has. He is far more well rounded than the penalty box “stick it on his head” guy he sometimes gets labelled as. He has been really poor in his appearances this season, but that static, lost looking guy is not who we bought.
I feel he has been let down by Slot a bit this season, not just terms of putting him at the point of a disjointed side, but in inserting him into the side before he was ready, seemingly as a roll of the dice to salvage a season in which he realized he was quickly running out of answers to address our malaise.
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