Out for 2 weeks according to Sky Sports
Sturridge new hamstring injury
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If rather sell him and bring in a replacement..
150,000 grand a week we pay him says we certainly be better off doing so...
He really is not worth what we are paying him.. Certainly not getting the return...
No you're absolutely right Dreamy, we should deffo sellz him!!!!!!!!
The only issue with his injury issues being coverage on television, radio, telephones, newspapers and the internet.....
So that leaves us with Pyongyang Rovers as the only viable buying club.
Owen and Torres.
Every chance that we could get £30m+ for him. A club in China or the Middle East would easily pay that. The problem would be to get Sturridge to agree the deal.
No, there really isn't, and there's no "easily" about it. Neither Owen nor Torres were still having injury problems when they left, and even at their worst their injury records weren't as bad as Sturridge's has now become. However often some repeat that nonsense above, it isn't magically going to come true.
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Well considering people are questioning our medical team then perhaps other clubs might think they can solve his injury problems and will be willing to pay for arguably the second best striker in the league when fit.
I've got a mental picture of a man in a tent with a mallet
Mr Miller the muller yoghurt maker?
He was getting injured when not getting pushed to play, so I think we'd just reached a point where he had to just overcome the psychological side of it and play to see how he reacted. If he didn't play it wouldn't have made any difference. When you've been out that long, it's too easy to succumb to injury in the early stages of getting back out on the pitch and no amount of training or rehab can replicate playing in anofficial, high intensive game. All you can do is give players playing time to ease back to full fitness. I'm not sure what we've done wrong really.
I'm not gonna defend Klopp to the hilt over it, but he's been wrapped in cotton wool in the past with the same outcome, I'm not sure it's something we can attribute to being overly cautious or too flippant about his condition.
The alternative way of looking at it could be that Sturridge is so psychologically fucked by the amount of injuries he's had, that he's doing things differently on the pitch to protect himself, which in itself can invite injury.
I might have been until I saw the quotes from yesterday, Klopp understands the situation perfectly, unlike those who think there's some mental aspect to this :
It’s a hamstring injury and it’s not easy to say when he is back,” Klopp said before their final Europa League group tie against Sion in Switzerland.
“There are two different things we have to look on. The one is the injury and the other is how we bring him into shape so it’s not so intensive for him when he needs to train. The good thing with the muscle injury is he could start to run and all the others things he needs, but not play football.
“If you look at his history in the last month and year its not the longest time he could train. It is very important with all the games we have to find the specific point when it is possible to bring him for minutes and what makes more sense for his general shape.
“I can’t say what we will do exactly but we have to look at it. The injury is not that serious but we have to build up his resistance. You have to cool down this situation a bit and help him be more resistant. That is how it is.
After our disappointment and the defeat of our expectations in Sturridge, coming to the realization he's not the answer is the best we can hope to do.
Welcome him back when he feels ready to play and there's a place for him, of course, but we can't plan for his status and we can't sell him, so provide support when he asks but cut him loose to prepare himself and prove his own fitness, give him that responsibility and power.
Time to make the best of a bad job and seek a replacement. We need to move on from constant anxiety and fruitless hope to getting a player able to make a contribution.
Welcome him back when he feels ready to play and there's a place for him, of course, but we can't plan for his status and we can't sell him, so provide support when he asks but cut him loose to prepare himself and prove his own fitness, give him that responsibility and power.
Time to make the best of a bad job and seek a replacement. We need to move on from constant anxiety and fruitless hope to getting a player able to make a contribution.
Who? Who would buy him. City won't? They can just buy whoever they want and Sturridge won't go to be backup to Aguero. Can't see United wanting him and he'd never sell to them. Arsenal hardly leave another crock. Leaves maybe Chelsea. Again, when necessary they can spend 30 million on a striker if they want and I don't think Sturridge would go back.
At best somebody might risk about 10 million on him while we subsidise at least half of his wages ending up breaking even on the deal at best, while potentially improving a rival.
Klopp reckons he's back in maybe 10 days. Should play a part in the Watford game. Sorry if I'm quiffing - I just saw it then.
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