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I meant that in regards to his injuries. Bale has been playing in a league that is less physical than the Premier League for years and he still gets injured like 3/4 of the time. How much have those injuries affected his physical state? If he's already breaking down easily in Spain, then I think it's a fair question to ask whether he can handle the Premier League right now after years of injuries. That's my point. I know he played in it in the past but that was before he became injury prone. Bale's main strengths are his pace and physicality but take those out, then I'm not sure what else he's got to compensate for them. He's basically half of the player he is (or even less) without those qualities.

A useful option to have...

A useful option to have...

Yeah...latest rumours are that Nintendo are working on a second version of Switch Lite. Good luck with that...

Bale turns 31 next year and given his injury record, can he survive the physicality of the Premier League? How long does he have left at the top level? Moreover, we all know the club's stance on players over 30 years old (Bale's poor injury record is going to count against him here) and with him earning something like 300k p/w at Madrid, there's no way we will pursue him. It's best for the club to pursue younger players than one who's gonna be over the hill very soon.

Mildly impressed. You should get a Switch. There are 2 options out there and with the end of year coming up, there should be some sale on it. The gaming section is the Gaming Forum but it's just that people have mostly talked about football games.

It's an ankle injury apparently...

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

What are you playing right now?

I play games.

It's hilarious how often they occur nowadays It's annoying but personally, I also kinda welcome it. Gives me some time to do other things rather than just juggling between work and watching football etc.

It's exhausting!

When his work schedule allows him to. https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2019/10/09/chelsea-legend-petr-cech-to-make-debut-as-ice-hockey-goalie

Then is then. Now is now. Times have changed. Things have changed. What do you think Lampard has been doing?

Since we're on the subject of Salah/De Bruyne, Matt Law wrote this few days ago... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/10/07/shrewd-frank-lampard-holds-nerve-christian-pulisic-chelsea-look/

There will be another international break next month.

That's the thing, isn't it? It's easy to say that they aren't ready etc but if you recognize the talent, then you gotta be patient and nurture them into great players. Binning them just because they don't perform immediately is a bad mindset, it's like being Mourinho.

Death. Taxes. Sir Mikel OBE complaining about Pulisic not being ready.

Plan? What plan?

It's so cringeworthy looking back at this. Talked so much about the academy and only one played in the meaningless Champions League game and it was just for 7 minutes!