A few gym sessions…build his muscles…and a few meals of stew n dumplings…
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Aren’t we overreacting a little? He had that back injury last season, which I think was to do with his growth? Apart from that, he’s had an ankle injury and a hamstring injury before this latest one. They’re not necessarily linked nor the sign of an “injury-prone” player.
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Scouse, obviously.
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Would have been more but for the end of last season coming in the middle of his absence. I hope from the bottom of my heart that he can resolve these issues because there’s a player in him - and he seems to fit into Slot’s tactical plans nicely.
That’s precisely the page I got my information from.
And this is exactly why going into next season with only Bradley and Gomez as RB options would be foolish.
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Maybe Bajcetic will be pencilled in for our emergency full back
Quansah says hi.
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Young players get injuries, just a fact of life.
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But he really isn’t an option with his few cameos at RB, but could change
I’m not arguing that he should be our regular or backup, but he is our break-glass-in-case-of-emergency option.
I do think he could have the tools for it but it would be a big learning process
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Down to 6 defenders again. Gomez if he returns won’t catch much of the season left. Bradley hopefully back in a few weeks. Big task for Trent in the next few games. We’ll see what are our other ‘emergency’ options other than Quansah, we saw a few different ones lately under Slot/Klopp.
Endō: puts on mouthguard
Lijnders:
“I remember that I really fought, proper fought, for Conor to be our No.2 behind Trent. I was really trying to keep him in the club because I believed that he would already be ready at that time. The club makes the decision together with Jurgen get him out on loan, and it really, really upset me a lot. There was hard, hard words and it was probably one of the only confrontations I had with Jurgen.”
Even though you could see his talent, from the games I saw (don’t see training obviously), he also didn’t look quite ready to me. A difference could be seen when he returned from that loan and also recovered from injury. Plus his international experience.
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Loved watching this!
Interesting nugget on the Anfield Wrap, that came up while they were researching that documentary.
With young players the club look for players who are already brilliant, but are projected to grow lots more. When they are signing a14 year old, they don’t want that player to already be in their adult body - I suppose because it’s very easy to stand out as a kid when you’re bigger than everyone else. They want players who have loads of growing still to do.
With Conor he isn’t actually projected to finish growing until he is 22 - a proper late developer, much like Gerrard was. The club believe that the injuries he is getting now is just because he is still growing and maturing into his body.
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Yeah, players who are physically a year or two more mature than the age group often find it easy to get away with a bad touch. It often enables them to still reliably be able to beat their man with only 1 or 2 moderately successful moves. It just doesnt provide the competitive pressure to really nail the fundamentals and higher level skills they’ll almost certainly need as they progress into the U21s and above.
I am very skeptical about the accuracy of these developmental projections, but it is very reasonable to not get overly concerned about a seeming lack of robustness of a kid still physically developing.
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Glad we discovered growth spurts.