I still think the idea of using Balotelli as scrap parts for Sturridge is the winner here. I don't know why no one else advocates it.
Looks like Dreamy was right. That's twice in a few days...
Didn't some bint predict the world was gonna end in 2016? I'm starting to get worried.
Yep. There's surely something pretty complex going on with Sturridge, that's leading to injuries elsewhere. Not that it's really comparable at a professional athlete's level, but I went to the osteopath when my shoulder and neck were fucked and he said it was all leading from my back. He asked then if I got pains in my knee and/or hip when playing sport and I did. I had little to no pain in my back at that time, but it was causing me pain in loads of other places.
Can we dispense with the pseudo psychological bollocks now?
I think it's pretty clear there is an underlying problem that hasn't been addressed yet. Sturridges training and game time needs to be very carefully managed.
At some point we're going to have to look at the logic of spending millions on footballing talent from all across the globe, and then hiring our rehab specialists straight out of John Moores Uni.
Completely agree but wasn't he shipped over to Boston to be analysed over the summer by the super duper Red Sox physiological team ? Talk of selling is utter stupidity as we can only get rid when he is fit, and when he is fit he's the second best striker in the league!
Since Suarez left, Sturridge has started 16 games from 81.
I've had a number of similar experiences, which is why I have the view I do.
If I was spending 140m on players wages every year I'd have a sports orientated orthopaedic surgeon on staff and a top class strength and conditioning coach.
We just have a proliferation of physios (one of whom was a member of Simply Red in his earlier life) and graduates from John Moores.
I totally accept the point that we should have the very best medical staff, and that we absolutely do not, however aren't you just replacing one pseudo science with another when you attribute this latest in a long line of injuries to a failure to address some unknown comorbid condition, or a failure with rehab. The pseudo science in both cases here is the conjecture and vague diagnosis of course, not the underlying science being suggested. The reality is that it that both explanations are almost necessarily true, they are that vague. Aren't you essentially saying, I don't think Sturridges rehab is going well? I mean... No, no it isn't.
There's an impulse to want to believe there's a root cause. The root cause, if we are in the business of the unbelievably general and thus true is he's an athlete whose body is great at every aspect of what he needs to do, except the part where it can endure those extreme demands without breaking. I'm not one that believes everyone falls into that category, or can be made to.
It would certainly be useful to have some statistical insight to that, because it makes Sturridge a one in 8 striker rather than a one in one.
Actual medical advice outside the realm of sports might involve someone saying "have you considered swimming."
No.
If I see a player with a hamstring injury and I make the comment that there is a physical problem here it is just common sense. What people have been doing is claiming there is some mental frailty that is the cause of these injuries.
They should send him to somewhere like the unit at Loughborough, where they specialise in studying and working with a lot of sprinters with fast twitch muscle fibres. Traditionally, football physios, and their equipment, have been geared more towards players with slow twitch muscle fibres, although to be fair they're now advancing very quickly. I'd imagine that many sports scientists, strictly speaking, would prescribe different training sessions and schedules for the different types of player, which obviously isn't practicable in the time available, so the need to generalise means the Sturridge type of player is always going to be more at risk than the Dirk Kuyt or Milner type.
But even taking that into account, Studge is so injury-prone I suspect he'd still be crying off on a regular basis even with the most bespoke fitness regime possible. The muscular problems are always going to be around throughout his career, but that makes his mental toughness after the odd knock even more crucial. And will he work on that? No sign of a willingness so far. He should be edging towards the peak of his career in the next couple of seasons and it's all draining away, and he doesn't seem that arsed.
They should send him to somewhere like the unit at Loughborough, where they specialise in studying and working with a lot of sprinters with fast twitch muscle fibres. Traditionally, football physios, and their equipment, have been geared more towards players with slow twitch muscle fibres, although to be fair they're now advancing very quickly. I'd imagine that many sports scientists, strictly speaking, would prescribe different training sessions and schedules for the different types of player, which obviously isn't practicable in the time available, so the need to generalise means the Sturridge type of player is always going to be more at risk than the Dirk Kuyt or Milner type.
But even taking that into account, Studge is so injury-prone I suspect he'd still be crying off on a regular basis even with the most bespoke fitness regime possible. The muscular problems are always going to be around throughout his career, but that makes his mental toughness after the odd knock even more crucial. And will he work on that? No sign of a willingness so far. He should be edging towards the peak of his career in the next couple of seasons and it's all draining away, and he doesn't seem that arsed.
"We have ways of making you play, Mr Sturridge"It's alright this time Klopp is going to be waiting for him in a darkened treatment room, 'Daniel... Im here to teach you what is serious pain and what is only pain'.
'Boss? I'm scared boss... Can I go?
'NEIN!'
I don't agree with the idea of him not being arsed. What proof have we? The fact his shares the odd laugh in the directors box? It is probably killing him that he isn't fit to play.