Adam Wharton

[ABBEY]

22 minutes ago, KentExile said:

 

Depending upon the severity of those injuries, that half of football may relegate Palace

please please please..palace scum

[Upside Down]

45 minutes ago, KentExile said:

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

The league cup is not meaningless. Unless you're a super rich 'elite club' of course.

Both these teams should be going full noise to win this game and get through to the next round.

I see villa gave away a goal by 'playing the right way'.

[KentExile]

8 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

The league cup is not meaningless. Unless you're a super rich 'elite club' of course.

Both these teams should be going full noise to win this game and get through to the next round.

I see villa gave away a goal by 'playing the right way'.

Maybe I should have wrote "meaningless in comparison to the £100M+ on offer for remaining in the Premier League for another season"

They started an injured player for the 2nd time in a few days, and look to have worsened his injury.  It was a terrible decision

Edited October 30, 2024 by KentExile

[simongarnerisgod]

4 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Maybe I should have wrote "meaningless in comparison to the £100M+ on offer for remaining in the Premier League for another season"

 

so no point in competing for a trophy and giving the fans a trip to wembley then?????

[Upside Down]

5 minutes ago, KentExile said:

Maybe I should have wrote "meaningless in comparison to the £100M+ on offer for remaining in the Premier League for another season"

They started an injured player for the 2nd time in a few days, and look to have worsened his injury.  It was a terrible decision

Fair do's.

The truly meaningless games are the shit early round European games and the international friendlies or whatever they're calling them now.

Make the Euro competitions two leg straight knock outs from the beginning and you'll get rid of the fixture congestion.

[ABBEY]

1 minute ago, simongarnerisgod said:

so no point in competing for a trophy and giving the fans a trip to wembley then?????

or Cardiff 😉

[rigger]

1 minute ago, ABBEY said:

or Cardiff 😉

Wembley against Charlton wasn't a bad day out either.

[KentExile]

8 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

so no point in competing for a trophy and giving the fans a trip to wembley then?????

My argument is that it was a ridiculous decision to play an already injured player in that league cup game. 

That doesn't mean that they had to throw in the towel for tonight's game.  I didn't say that they had to play their U14 reserves, and start the game by smashing the ball into their own goal

 

Edited October 30, 2024 by KentExile

[rigger]

Just now, KentExile said:

My argument is that it was a ridiculous decision to play an already injured player in that league cup game.  That doesn't mean that they had to throw in the towel for tonight's game

So you know the extent of Whartons injury pre game. Or are you making assumptions from hearsay ?

[KentExile]

1 minute ago, rigger said:

So you know the extent of Whartons injury pre game. Or are you making assumptions from hearsay ?

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

Quotes from the Palace manager state he has been playing on painkillers all season

[rigger]

5 minutes ago, KentExile said:

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

Quotes from the Palace manager state he has been playing on painkillers all season

I have known loads of players taking painkillers, both oral and injected. Some are so bad they cannot train, but still play on match days.

Edited October 30, 2024 by rigger

[simongarnerisgod]

6 minutes ago, rigger said:

I have known loads of players taking painkillers, both oral and injected. Some are so bad they cannot train, but still play on match days.

lots of pressure to play every week and players scared of losing their place as well,it`s not good though to keep pumping a young lad full of painkillers and cortisone ,i hope adam does`nt break down completely

[rigger]

13 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

lots of pressure to play every week and players scared of losing their place as well,it`s not good though to keep pumping a young lad full of painkillers and cortisone ,i hope adam does`nt break down completely

I am not saying it is good. I am saying it happens, and on a regular occasion. Usually on the insistance of the player.

[roverandout]

54 minutes ago, Upside Down said:

Fair do's.

The truly meaningless games are the shit early round European games and the international friendlies or whatever they're calling them now.

Make the Euro competitions two leg straight knock outs from the beginning and you'll get rid of the fixture congestion.

Maybe scrap the league Cup altogether.  Another attack on international football 

[Upside Down]

Just now, roverandout said:

Maybe scrap the league Cup altogether.  Another attack on international football 

Ok the Pep.

[roversfan99]

Probably because no one really cares about those internationals and even the players do not seem to want to play them, hence mass withdrawls and players publically criticising them, eg De Bruyne.

[Mattyblue]

Roverandout will die on Nations League Hill. 

[bluebruce]

On 28/10/2024 at 11:02, 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.

This post did not age well.

[riverholmes]

"We took the final decision [on Wharton], he will have surgery. He tried [training] but the pain is too much and then it makes no sense. He has really struggled in the last weeks and months."

[only2garners]

Apparently Adam was at Ewood today. We could have done with him, even if he could only stand in the middle and pass the ball around.

[sabino]

45 minutes ago, only2garners said:

Apparently Adam was at Ewood today. We could have done with him, even if he could only stand in the middle and pass the ball around.

Who the hell to?

[bazza]

On 02/11/2024 at 19:11, only2garners said:

Apparently Adam was at Ewood today. We could have done with him, even if he could only stand in the middle and pass the ball around.

I was at the game and someone came into blues bar before the game who looked very much like him. I wonder if it was him.

[K-Hod]

On 02/11/2024 at 19:11, only2garners said:

Apparently Adam was at Ewood today. We could have done with him, even if he could only stand in the middle and pass the ball around.

He was. I saw Scott and fiancé walking into the players entrance just ahead of kick off, with Adam just behind.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

There’s a story on the BBC site that Arsenal are in talks with Palace with a view to buying Adam for £ 54 million.. Have we got a sell on ?

[KentExile]

23 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

There’s a story on the BBC site that Arsenal are in talks with Palace with a view to buying Adam for £ 54 million.. Have we got a sell on ?

I believe so. 

I've heard anywhere between 15 & 20% of any profit, which would mean £5M or £6M reasons for Venkys not to send any more money over in January

https://www.caughtoffside.com/2024/11/27/adam-wharton-transfer-arsenal/

Man City & Liverpool also interested according story cited by the BBC.  Surely Palace wouldn't sell until the end of the season?  Get him fit and playing at his best again and then they would be looking at a much higher fee with those teams interested and a bidding war?

Edited November 28, 2024 by KentExile