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2 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

They should have bought him when they had the chance. It’s not like City to miss out.

I'm kinda glad they didn't. Hes had a chance of a proper run in with crystal palace. Proper game time. At city he may not get a chance for months or years or end up like Philips, pep is quite particular. Palace is good at grounding him and giving him a chance to establish himself in the PL. If rodri didn't get injured he would be their main CM for mostly every game. 

This way Wharton gets game time, practice at PL level, exposure and time to develop. Win win for him and he's the main guy at palace.

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If they get further embroiled in a relegation battle the likelihood of them letting him have the surgery decreases.

Feel for Adam, hope they look after him. Can foresee another Michael Owen scenario where he is overplayed through injuries to benefit the club.

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On 22/10/2024 at 15:30, Groundhog said:

Worrying statements from Palace. Get the lad the surgery he needs. 

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/crystal-palace-adam-wharton-injury-surgery-glasner-b1188794.html

Without knowing the details of the injury, but the fact they know he needs surgery but are delaying it just highlights a paradox of professional football. Investing huge sums at every level on players (down to schoolboys) and their health but still relying on injured players in their first team. Wharton has been poor to average the past few months and they surely would not lose anything by playing Kamada or someone else.

Perhaps, the league is more competitive now and that is why, but I recall Alex Ferguson getting tunes out of the likes of John Curtis, Luke Chadwick and the like when his regulars were absent. A different less competitive era but there seems like no room for giving such players a chance these days. Guardiola, in his wisdom, prefers two goalkeepers on the bench than have a reserve youngster take another spot.

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On 25/10/2024 at 05:06, riverholmes said:

Without knowing the details of the injury, but the fact they know he needs surgery but are delaying it just highlights a paradox of professional football. Investing huge sums at every level on players (down to schoolboys) and their health but still relying on injured players in their first team. Wharton has been poor to average the past few months and they surely would not lose anything by playing Kamada or someone else.

Perhaps, the league is more competitive now and that is why, but I recall Alex Ferguson getting tunes out of the likes of John Curtis, Luke Chadwick and the like when his regulars were absent. A different less competitive era but there seems like no room for giving such players a chance these days. Guardiola, in his wisdom, prefers two goalkeepers on the bench than have a reserve youngster take another spot.

Actually that was a far more competitive era.

There may be more individual competitiveness between players now because they are all so homogeneous and there's no real individual standouts anymore. In this regard, Wharton is an outlier as he's got real quality about him and plays a style of his own, hence the reason they are still wanting to play him even though he's injured.

In the good old days every team had at least one or two top class players that the team was built around and the rest were solid. In the modern era the players are pretty much interchangeable and nobody has any personality or individual attributes, it's all about who can play best for 'the system'. Well, it's fucking shit. It's boring, turgid and predictable.

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2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Correct he did but He has injury which they are managing in the short term question is what is best long term and his footballing career

 

Clearly neither you nor I have any real idea how serious his injury is, but clearly it can't be that bad at the moment if he can play 88 minutes of a PL game. I suspect that no one is yet sure whether what he has are natural growing pains or something more serious.

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23 minutes ago, only2garners said:

Clearly neither you nor I have any real idea how serious his injury is, but clearly it can't be that bad at the moment if he can play 88 minutes of a PL game. I suspect that no one is yet sure whether what he has are natural growing pains or something more serious.

He played some beautiful passes in that game too. Heart-breaking.

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13 minutes ago, Rogerb said:

Injured in tonights game with villa after 27 minutes.

imo it`s terrible management to make him play twice a week with a groin injury,if he`s not carefull he`s going to end completely ****** up and lose all his natural speed,groin and hamstring injuries are renown for being tricky to treat  and take careful handling

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Just now, simongarnerisgod said:

imo it`s terrible management to make him play twice a week with a groin injury,if he`s not carefull he`s going to end completely ****** up and lose all his natural speed,groin and hamstring injuries are renown for being tricky to trear  and take careful handling

Even more perplexing is that tonight's game is a league cup match.  Hardly a high priority surely?

I can just about understand the balancing act of playing him in league games to protect their Premier League status, even half fit, he is their best midfielder, but playing him in a meaningless cup game was madness

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3 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

imo it`s terrible management to make him play twice a week with a groin injury,if he`s not carefull he`s going to end completely ****** up and lose all his natural speed,groin and hamstring injuries are renown for being tricky to treat  and take careful handling

His natural speed, is speed of thought. 

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