When it rains, it pours. I can’t remember the last season where we had this many injuries that lasted for 6+ months, and all of them were of a different variety. 2020/21 perhaps?
I think the last Liverpool player to rupture his Achilles was Fabio Aurelio, if I remember correctly, I remember people saying at the time that players preferred doing their ACL instead, that’s how debilitating it was to their long-term prospects.
I was reading up on it and it sounds even longer than that. Apparently, the chances of re-rupture are low if recuperation is done properly and lowered further if surgery is done. We’ll have to see what the club doctors say, but I don’t think we should be planning to start next season with him fit.
So many of these injuries now.
I blame the new lightweight boots.
Ruptured Achilles was so rare back in 80s, 90 and 00s - now these boots are made of plastic offers no support.
A friend of mine ruptured his achilles at a trampoline place in his late 20’s. His rehab was provided by NHS like so not as high level as LFC’s will be but was never the same after.
I think Aurelio came back ok and he was pretty brittle. Feel like treatment will have also improved by then.
Actually there was a study a year a two ago which suggested the liteweight boots were better at preventing injuries like achilles.
French press reporting as achilles possibly not seeing him till end of 2026.
Not sure how true, Talksport saying that Hugo is out for 9 months! 
Poor Hugo, he’s missing the World Cup and he’s missing most of the first half next season.
When it rains, it pours!
That’s brutal for him. He started up front recently against Brazil alongside Dembele and Mbappe
Add in the rehab and the pre-season, it will be nearly a year from now that we can see him play a game for next season. Fuck!
Fucks sake. That’s a massive blow and a nightmare end to a decent debut season.
For us, it’s two steps forward and three back. Just as Slot was getting his squad back we lose another.
They have broken us, in all senses of the term. Slot seems out of his depth at the club right now, but honestly, who could survive such a deluge of devastating injury blows in one single season? Klopp maybe (because he had already huge credit with the fans), but otherwise, it kills any gaffer imo.
And also, Ekitike is (was?) in my eyes our best signing of last summer. Now, he’s out for God knows how much time, without any guarantee that he’ll ever find back his former level.
How depressing this is. Thousand times worse than going out to PSG 4 nil on aggregate.
Achilles rupture takes even longer to get up to top speed as a tendon needs to be re-trained to take progressive load. I really hope he gets all of his fluid pace and movement back. He’s young so that’s a big plus on his side. All the best Hugo!
Yep the achilles is base for any weight bearing excercise so fitness is lost in most aspects
So i wonder, does this injury ridden season get seen by the board as a mitigating factor that justifies allowing Arne another season, or a failure of his approach to reduce injuries (which was meant to be a factor in his recruitment?)
Or the opposite, should they have pushed the players harder in one of if not both of our last pre-seasons in purely the physical aspect of pre-season? I know we won the league last season and there’s also mental fatigue to go with physical, but it seemed a bit like we peaked earlier than we should’ve last season. And this season it just hasn’t looked right from the start and not only that of course.
That’s something that keeps bothering me about this coaching staff and something I know I’ll never find out. We’ll see if they get one more pre-season or it’s time for a change.
Plus, the general question is it even possible for a top PL club to maintain at least successive seasons with a relatively positive situation in terms of injuries, or is good season-bad season (something we had at times under Klopp) the best you can hope for.
They’ll have to bring in another striker or two now.
Let’s get someone who can play up top and on the sides.
Oyarzabal. 
Just brutal. Right before the World Cup. Feel awful for him.
Isak has a chance to earn his position and justify his fee during an extended run as the target man.