Ruben Loftus-Cheek

[chippy 342]

The stat of being 24 and only starting 33 games underlines how desperately unlucky he's been with injuries. When fully fit and given a good run of games he was really starting to  show the huge potential we all know he has. Without those injuries he might well be up there with the elte players in the Premiership or even true world class. I just pray he can regain full fitness and get back to his best. 

[Jase 43,479]

Lampard with latest on Loftus-Cheek...

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2020/01/10/frank-lampard-rules-trio-out--updates-on-january-speculation-and?_branch_match_id=744198548489059432

Ruben [Loftus-Cheek] is still out and he’s out for a while but hopefully he’ll start getting involved in a bit of collective football, maybe with the Academy to get his eye in slightly in terms of playing because he’s at that stage now.’

[Jase 43,479]

GOOD NEWS!

[Tomo 21,751]

57 minutes ago, Jason said:

GOOD NEWS!

I think the best course of action with Ruben is to write off the season, give him whatever minutes we can and then condition him to hitnthe ground running next season, in other words give him a long pre season.

Given the severity of his injury it will be a miracle if we get last season's version back quickly.

[Atomiswave 6,117]

On ‎09‎-‎01‎-‎2020 at 6:02 PM, Jason said:

Said it before, Sarri should be held accountable for playing Loftus-Cheek in that match, especially knowing his fitness/injury/back problems. 

About the game, sure, it was for a good cause but the timing was really poor. And if we're talking strictly about maintaining match fitness, we could have easily arranged a friendly with some other team back home.

It was utterly stupid to have this match at the time. Play it after the final not before. And I dont buy the notion that we would not have been match fit, you dont go stale after 2 weeks. You could easily just do intense training and still be fit. RLC wont be counted on this season, give him the time to build up again and have him go next season.....thats if he even can be the same player. Ugly injury.

[Tomo 21,751]

1 hour ago, Atomiswave said:

It was utterly stupid to have this match at the time. Play it after the final not before. And I dont buy the notion that we would not have been match fit, you dont go stale after 2 weeks. 

Not true, the CL final was played like a pre season freindly because the team weren't sharp enough. Conte played a full strength team in the FA Cup against lower league opposition because he didn't want the main boys to go into a league game with no match for two weeks, went as far as calling it "dangerous".

1 hour ago, Atomiswave said:

You could easily just do intense training and still be fit. 

Training isn't the same, training gets you fit, playing matches get you match fit. There's a huge difference between being fit and match fit.

[Atomiswave 6,117]

18 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Not true, the CL final was played like a pre season freindly because the team weren't sharp enough. Conte played a full strength team in the FA Cup against lower league opposition because he didn't want the main boys to go into a league game with no match for two weeks, went as far as calling it "dangerous".

Training isn't the same, training gets you fit, playing matches get you match fit. There's a huge difference between being fit and match fit.

Yea I get that but its 2 weeks mate not 2months. They should be plenty fit if they practice with high intensity is all im saying. Its a very short window, they wont crash and burn for not playing a match for 2 weeks, at the very end of the season it should be helpful actually. That match could have easily costed us more than RLC in those conditions.

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, Tomo said:

Not true, the CL final was played like a pre season freindly because the team weren't sharp enough. Conte played a full strength team in the FA Cup against lower league opposition because he didn't want the main boys to go into a league game with no match for two weeks, went as far as calling it "dangerous".

Training isn't the same, training gets you fit, playing matches get you match fit. There's a huge difference between being fit and match fit.

I don't disagree with the point you're trying to make but in our case, not sure if playing that match really made any difference to the match fitness. That game in the US was 3 days after our last league game (May 12) and after that, we had two full weeks to prep for the Europa League. If that friendly game was played a week before the final, then yeah but since it wasn't, don't think it mattered too much. I'm sure if the club were concerned about the match fitness, they would have just arranged a friendly with some other club back home or heck, scheduled that friendly in the US a week before the final. 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Tomo 21,751]

Im worried about him when he returns.

With an injury like his we won't be seeing him anywhere near his best for quite some time which will put his a target on his back for abuse.

[killer1257 3,282]

Im worried about him when he returns.
With an injury like his we won't be seeing him anywhere near his best for quite some time which will put his a target on his back for abuse.

He always got his abuse due to the fact that a lot of guys did not rate him. I was one of the guys defending him because I actually knew him from our Youth Team and saw his Potential.

The good thing about him is that he knows how to come back from a huge injury.
Also, he tore his left tendon and he is right footed, so this will make it Way easier. I am so happy that my favourite Youth Player of all time is now healthy again

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[Tomo 21,751]

4 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

He always got his abuse due to the fact that a lot of guys did not rate him. I was one of the guys defending him because I actually knew him from our Youth Team and saw his Potential.

The good thing about him is that he knows how to come back from a huge injury.
Also, he tore his left tendon and he is right footed, so this will make it Way easier. I am so happy that my favourite Youth Player of all time is now healthy again

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Well I was one who had doubts but I always saw enough to make me stay open minded, I would never dream of dishing out the abuse that's been handed to Mount/Tammy/Callum.

Unfortunately this is predictable, I'll give it four games after his return until this thread is beyond toxic.

[NikkiCFC 8,294]

Most exciting midfielder we have with Gallagher. 

[Special Juan 28,124]

Trained with the first team today

[LAM09 7,043]

Pleasant sight to see him back training with the team. Hope he is given as much as needed to get back into the swing of things & isn't rushed back like plenty of others this season.