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Reece James

Got to say you have to be worried about James's career here at this point. Especially if this is another 3 months out or so, clearly his hamstrings can't hold up.

In the summer the club could be thinking of cashing in if there's interest but I very much doubt there will be tbh. He's about as crocked as Kante and even on a free there was only Saudi interest in him really.

 
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Adamrb said:
Really need to start questioning the way our medical team have handled him, and others, over recent years.

Players get injured sure, but no other team are starting with 5 first teamers out
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James has been examined by specialists on more than one occasion. The medical team act on the specialists' advice. More a case of changing specialists.

 
OriginalS said:
Got to say you have to be worried about James's career here at this point. Especially if this is another 3 months out or so, clearly his hamstrings can't hold up.

In the summer the club could be thinking of cashing in if there's interest but I very much doubt there will be tbh. He's about as crocked as Kante and even on a free there was only Saudi interest in him really.
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I think long term he may have to he moved into the central of defense, especially if/when we play back 3.

People won't like to hear that but the only solution may end up being playing him in less taxing positions.

 
It might not even be from the medical team, could be James skipping a part of the recovery process just to rush back on the field. Regardless, I think it has reached the point where there needs to be a thorough investigation into James' injury problems.

 
Adamrb said:
Really need to start questioning the way our medical team have handled him, and others, over recent years.

Players get injured sure, but no other team are starting with 5 first teamers out
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They seem to pick up one injury and never recover. They always seem to return damaged and just get the same injury again soon after or a new injury when they return. This has been going on for years now and it started with Rudiger. I remember when he picked up his knee injury at the end of the 2018/19 season. When he returned, he injured his knee again, then he returned again and picked up another injury. This went on for 6 months. So many players at our club seem to pick up one injury and then get another one soon after. Chilwell was the same, he came back from his ACL injury and got a hamstring injury within weeks of returning and then had another one at the end of last season. 

Another one is Sterling. He's gone his whole career without any serious injuries, one season at Chelsea and he picks up a hamstring injury. It wasn't just one hamstring injury though, because one is never enough at Chelsea, he picks up the same injury again a month later.

Kovacic is at City now, he was constantly hit by injuries with us, I would not be surprised if he manages to remain mostly injury free at City though.

I don't understand why our players either go through months of injuries before finally getting their bodies back to the way they should be, or never recover until the day they leave. 

 
It just feeds into the whole thing I was saying the other day, that we can never get excited about anything surrounding Chelsea anymore. Every time we do, something bad happens to spoil it. We beat Liverpool to sign both Caicedo and Lavia, and almost immediately we are brought down to a low point with Hall expected to leave and now James picking up another injury. It's no surprise that many fans are pessimistic these days, we can't get excited about anything Chelsea related, there's always a catch.

 
Adamrb said:
Problem is - and the same as the last two seasons - all our attacks depend on Reece and Chilwell. Was the same against Liverpool already.

And now we're looking to play 3 DMs in the centre, how are we going to score enough goals. the days of 1-0s in the Prem is largely over and we pretty rarely score more than one goal per game in the last two seasons  
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This is because Poch played a back 3 against Liverpool, mimicking Tuchel.

This shouldn't be the norm, we should be playing a back 4 and I think the days of us relying a lot on full backs are over, this injury of James shows it too.

 
Could this be our training facilities not helping the pitch at Cobham because we pick up way too many injuries in training compared to other teams?

 
Argo said:
I think long term he may have to he moved into the central of defense, especially if/when we play back 3.

People won't like to hear that but the only solution may end up being playing him in less taxing positions.
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Could be a solution longer term but we already have a lot of competition for CB spots when all are fit. Plus you then lose out on one of his big strengths which is his crossing ability.

 
forbzy said:
Could be a solution longer term but we already have a lot of competition for CB spots when all are fit. Plus you then lose out on one of his big strengths which is his crossing ability.
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From RCB in a back three we could still see a lot of crosses (see Azpi's glut of assists to Morata).

But either way, if that's the only way we can get a better run of fitness from him it's something that may have to be considered.

 
Sexyfootball said:
Possibly why Boehly replaced the groundsman ? 
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This is what I am thinking because we have been getting far too many injuries in training @Scott Harris mentioned Sterling getting injured as soon as the joined us while not having these issues at City.

Until the club address this, we will suffer every season with long injuries.

 
Had to go see the best specialists in the world, has to have surgery to fix this. 

we cannot have him being out for months every season. 

 
I agree with the thoughts on his career, or longevity of it.  He is unavailable more than available - I doubt anyone is more frustrated than Reece, but this is not a sustainable pattern.

Mucho Trusto in Gusto though.  The boy can play

 
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