Ruben Loftus-Cheek

[gary gordon 1,777]

If he works on his muscle gain, there is no telling how good he's going to be. He impressed the hell out of me vs Citeh.. Exciting times ahead for CFC.

[The only place to be 11,313]

If he works on his muscle gain, there is no telling how good he's going to be. He impressed the hell out of me vs Citeh.. Exciting times ahead for CFC.

I can't see any reason for him to 'gain muscle'. He's actually nicely composed at a fairly young age, and probably strong enough to compete with other professionals.

Can't see him going on loan next season either which is why it's good that he's got match time on this tour. I suspect he'll get more on the pre-season tour too.

[gary gordon 1,777]

I can't see any reason for him to 'gain muscle'. He's actually nicely composed at a fairly young age, and probably strong enough to compete with other professionals.

Can't see him going on loan next season either which is why it's good that he's got match time on this tour. I suspect he'll get more on the pre-season tour too.

Muscle gain can really help somebody who is very injury prone. As most EPL fans know, it doesn't hurt to have some size. Yaya Toure is one of the biggest MF's I've ever seen and is rarely injured. coincidence? I don't think so..

[The only place to be 11,313]

Muscle gain can really help somebody who is very injury prone. As most EPL fans know, it doesn't hurt to have some size. Yaya Toure is one of the biggest MF's I've ever seen and is rarely injured. coincidence? I don't think so..

Is he very injury prone? He's had a couple along the way but nothing serious and nothing that would make me think he needs to gain any more muscle. He just needs to keep doing what he's doing and I could see him being part of our League Cup squad and maybe even the Premier League squad towards the end of the season.

[gary gordon 1,777]

Is he very injury prone? He's had a couple along the way but nothing serious and nothing that would make me think he needs to gain any more muscle. He just needs to keep doing what he's doing and I could see him being part of our League Cup squad and maybe even the Premier League squad towards the end of the season.

Here we go! Mr-know-it-all!!

Ruben made his Under-18 debut at the back end of the 2010-11 season after struggling with injury for much of the campaign, and started the 2011-12 season as a regular in Adrian Viveash's team. He scored his first goal for the youth team away to Newcastle United in August 2011 and went on to grab nearly half a dozen in the first half of the campaign. However, he would miss much of the second half of the season with a hip injury and was only fit to return to action in the Second Leg of the 2011-12 FA Youth Cup Final against Blackburn Rovers.

17 years old and he has two major injuries within a year. If you wouldn't say prone, would you say very unlucky???

Have you actually ever played a sport that requires physical contact? Well, i have. Played 2nd division Rugby League ( Thats 2 division's below the NRL) . Our Sports Physio and strength and conditioning coach, thats right, i guy who actually studies sports injuries, had us building muscle in common injury areas to avoid any further damage and help us strengthen that area. GUESS WHAT??? IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!!!

I know Rugby league is not Football, but muscles are muscles..

If Loftus-Cheek has a history with injury, especially a hip injury, you can guarantee the club a working on building his muscle mass, because as the type of MF we need, a hell of a lot of both upper body and leg strength won't hurt.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Here we go! Mr-know-it-all!!

Ruben made his Under-18 debut at the back end of the 2010-11 season after struggling with injury for much of the campaign, and started the 2011-12 season as a regular in Adrian Viveash's team. He scored his first goal for the youth team away to Newcastle United in August 2011 and went on to grab nearly half a dozen in the first half of the campaign. However, he would miss much of the second half of the season with a hip injury and was only fit to return to action in the Second Leg of the 2011-12 FA Youth Cup Final against Blackburn Rovers.

17 years old and he has two major injuries within a year. If you wouldn't say prone, would you say very unlucky???

Have you actually ever played a sport that requires physical contact? Well, i have. Played 2nd division Rugby League ( Thats 2 division's below the NRL) . Our Sports Physio and strength and conditioning coach, thats right, i guy who actually studies sports injuries, had us building muscle in common injury areas to avoid any further damage and help us strengthen that area. GUESS WHAT??? IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!!!

I know Rugby league is not Football, but muscles are muscles..

If Loftus-Cheek has a history with injury, especially a hip injury, you can guarantee the club a working on building his muscle mass, because as the type of MF we need, a hell of a lot of both upper body and leg strength won't hurt.

I know exactly how muscle can help key areas that are prone to injury, but I've also seen players who have overtrained and had too much muscle for their body to either cope with, or it simply limits their performance in other areas.

Now whilst I applaud your sporting prowess, I think it's got the square root of fuck all to do with Ruben Loftus Cheek who is a fairly large man in person. Specifically pointing that out as an area that needs to be improved upon just struck me as odd.

Not sure what your problem is with me that would require that little bit of name-calling, but I just disagree with what you said.

[Mr_President 404]

Hopefully he plays later today.

[lucio 5,418]

gone off hurt- another top performance.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

If JT was playing, he would have flattened Toure for inflicting the injury on Ruben.

[Jusek 2,031]

Ruben Loftus-Cheek ‏@RubeLoftusCheek 18 min

Injury should be fine. Gutted I couldn't carry on great experience for me. Back to England now #homeSweetHome

[Amblève. 4,995]

If JT was playing, he would have flattened Toure for inflicting the injury on Ruben.

I wish either Luiz or Mikel (or captain Torres ) had stepped up to put Toure in his place...

[BluesChick 1,260]

odd that y'all were talking about him being injury prone and how big Toure is and that he doesn't get injured often. Spooky actually!

[Reddish-Blue 2,347]

I wish either Luiz or Mikel (or captain Torres ) had stepped up to put Toure in his place...

Mikel's too passive to flatten someone like Toure.

And that's what we lack in midfield...a bit of steel and a bit of aggression.

Miss the days when Ballack and Essien were the midfield enforcers.

[Waterfall 893]

He's been very impressive since around the Barca game a few months ago. It would be nice if he can bulk up a bit and get some experience at the pro level (be it Championship or occasional appearances for the first team a la Ake this year)

[Sheva. 5,373]

Impressed. Nice close control and composure for such a young player, future looks bright for him - hopefully it's at Chelsea.

[Peppen 934]

He is so good it's unreal - at such an age, of course. Loving what I've seen so far, and if he continues his progress, the sky's the limit!

[Mceachran 109]

I loved how he seemed at ease having the ball in the offensive third, shrugging off tackles and moving FORWARD to find the open player.

[blu35_army 551]

looks like Mikel but in faster Mode and better game reader....