I'd just like to set up a thread regarding the number of injuries we're currently suffering from at the moment. Drogba, Terry and Cech are all injured at the moment, all of which seem they might prove to be long-term (Cech is unconfirmed at the moment). The thing with Terry and Carvalho in particular pisses me off; for example, when Terry gets an injury, and then he returns, then Carvalho gets an injury, and then just when Carvalho comes back to the side, Terry gets injured again. It's like since Gallas left us, Carvalho and Terry haven't been able to parter much with each other in defence, and somehow it's cost us important results. Like last season, when United somehow ran away with it because for most of the season we were without Terry because he had to have a serious operation on his back, and when Cech suffered that life threatening head trauma which caused him to sit out for a few months. I really don't know! What is it about us that endures so many problems with injury-prone players. And why do teams such as Man United and Arsenal get away with it. Rooney was ruled out only for a month with his hamstring injury at the end of the season, while you have Drogba being ruled out for three. And then you have Cesc Fabregas for Arsenal, who's only ruled out for a couple of weeks with an injury, and is back just in time to play against us. Also, the less availiable players there are for selection, the less competition for a chance to get into the starting eleven week in week out, and therefore there isn't much of a level that the players need to play at, so that they are in reasonably good form. In other words, the team isn't getting much best out of the players. I would be hugely surprised and shocked if Avram Grant doesn't spend money in January, because as far as injuries and the African Nations Cup is concerned, we don't have much of a winning squad in all honesty. No Drogba, no Essien, no Terry, no Cech. Can we cope???