Agreed. Pity he’s not available when needed coz he’s such a brilliant baller. Like Keita, just not cut out for the physicality of the PL.
https://twitter.com/BassTunedToRed/status/1653521112574181377?t=tzBicr_Kx4xgAADSHQQBTg&s=19
This is horrendous…
time to let go…paying him £200k a week to be injured.
times up thiago lad
Apparently Barca want him back.
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Why does it have to be half hour? What about lets say, 8 hours…Still having that broken down Veyron?
Having a player of his quality at the club is a no brainer. People talk about Keita as being a super player, but injured too often…Thiago is at a different level completely.
We have this tendency to want the lad who plays 40 games ahead of the player who offers something different. We grossly underused Litmanen and Sahin, quality players at their time.
The idea of letting him go to “save” wages etc smacks of small club.
For next season I would much prefer Thiago for 20 games plus Curtis Jones than spend £50m on Kalvin Phillips.
I know you disagree, your trite comments about “ear injuries” illustrates that.
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Between him Naby and Ox, that’s almost 40m we’ve paid them to not play. £40m straight down the shitter.
That’s a bit of a false equivalence. Phillips is even more injury prone than Thiago.
We know Thiago is a wonderful football player. As good a midfielder as you will find. But his injury problems are chronic. He could be Zidane, and wouldn’t make a difference with him on the treatment table rather than the pitch.
It isn’t small time to think that the 200k a week we spend on nursing this lad back from successive injuries would be better spent elsewhere.
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But what’s the point of him if he is never fit. He even gets injured in the warm ups ffs.
He is probably the most technically gifted player in the league but he’s utterly pointless as we cannot get him on the pitch.
Since he signed he has missed 58 games through injury and only made 96 appearances (not full games) so for every appearance he has missed 1.7 games.
Move him on and put that £200k a week to better use.
It certainly doesn’t smack of small club to let him go. We aren’t City - keeping him might stop us bringing in a player who is actually fit and is paid less than half what Thiago is.
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The use of that expression regarding a totally sublime footballer. Fucking hell.
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Phillips is a poor example maybe, injury wise.
Substitute any work horse instead.
If the workhorse if reliably fit, I’ll take the workhorse.
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Even a fit Thiago in his prime didn’t play 50 games per season (yes, knowing that in Germany, you have less games than in England). We knew what we were doing when we were signing him, especially heading towards/entering his 30’s. That risk, in this league, in our intense side, was only going to increase.
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What we saying is that instead of getting into another Ox/Keita situation where neither player was available during crucial periods yet still holding on to them, free up those wages for another player even if it means bringing in someone else. We can’t afford to go into another season with a 50% fit Thiago.
Hopefully after this hip surgery, he will feature more next season but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
He only has one more year to go in his contract. Looking at how our club behaves, for good or for bad, we are not likely to cancel his contract or force him out. He will be allowed to finish his contract or if he finds a club he fancies to play his last hurrahs back in his home country, we might let him go for free or for a token sum. Its unfortunate, but it is what it is, we can say he is world class, but world class on paper ultimately is not only to win us anything. But he has been respectful of the fans and club can only wish him the best whatever happens to him between now and the end of his contract.
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Ok…move on
To think we let Gini go who missed only 7 games so was only missing every 33.9 games and kept Ox, Thiago and Keita is mind boggling.
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Ok
That sums up the discussion.
I hope we keep him and he dovetails with Curtis for the season.
Others don’t
Fair enough.
It’s unfair to look like that. They have contracts, styles, demands, buyers from the market or not, etc.
The mistake was not signing another midfielder, similar to Gini’s (when he was good) qualities at some point between then and now.
Not a Bugatti Veyron, more like an 80s Ferrari or Lamborghini. Great when working but frequently breaks down.