Marco van Ginkel

[zolayes 14,489]

why not wait and see how his recovery goes and what kind of his pre season he has instead of this pointless speculation

[Amblève. 4,995]

why not wait and see how his recovery goes and what kind of his pre season he has instead of this pointless speculation

That's not how TC works.

[The_Flash 1,144]

It was such a shame he got so badly injured, he was showing early promise. I think he may struggle to get back in the team now

[BlueLion. 21,491]

That's not how TC works.

Damn right.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

It's pretty amazing how fast he's recovered from a torn ACL. Careers are derailed and some even end prematurely due to torn ACLs and this dude recovers in 5-6 months. Unreal. All the praise to Cheslea medical team and him though, that is one of the fastest torn ACL recoveries I've ever heard of in professional sports.

[Beepu 1,714]

He was showing all the right stuff before the injury, hopefully he can recover fully and work his way back into the team. Was quite excited for him at the start of the season.

[Jase 43,479]

From training today...

[Strike 7,217]

good to see him back early

[Mustafa 885]

I'm very excited to see what he can do for us. He might still have a role to play in our title run in.

Welcome Back Marco

[CHOULO19 24,332]

I'm very excited to see what he can do for us. He might still have a role to play in our title run in.

Welcome Back Marco

Not sure we'll see Marco with the first team so soon. Once he's fit enough, I reckon he'll play at least a couple of weeks with the U21s before being considered for the first team.

[Barbara 15,149]

It's pretty amazing how fast he's recovered from a torn ACL. Careers are derailed and some even end prematurely due to torn ACLs and this dude recovers in 5-6 months. Unreal. All the praise to Cheslea medical team and him though, that is one of the fastest torn ACL recoveries I've ever heard of in professional sports.

no other medical team has Eva, so here they have additional motivation

Now into serious matters...

You could see early in the season that Marco would be receiving chances. He's injured himself in a match he started!

He was an used sub in two EPL games, he started against Swindon and Basel in the UCL in 5 weeks. That's nearly more chances than Kevin had in 5 months, so I think Mourinho had plans for him all along. Kalas never had any resemblance of chance like that. Hell, not even Bertrand had.

Maybe it has something to do with our underwhelming pivot then and now with Matic his chances would drop considerably, but it doesn't make much sense in my head because Matic is a #6 and as far as I can say Marco is better as a #8. I do hope Mourinho continues to give him chances come next season (I don't expect him coming from a 6-month recovery to have chances during a critical time of the season. We do have options.

But comes next season, and I hope Mou will continue with him from where he's stopped. He was nervous in some of those matches - I remember his first 10-15 minutes against Basel were terrible, but the kid was 20 then, and he was playing in our first UCL match of the season. I understand the pressure and why he was nervous. But he recovered after it, but you could still clearly see he wasn't 100% himself yet. If he lives up the expectation and for José to trust him so quickly is because there are good chances he will; then I think we could have one hell of a pivot. I'm about to post a stat in Matic's thread. A #8 by his side - like Lamps was in 2005 - would make our pivot even better than City's imo. I'm not even dreaming of saying Marco has potential to be what Lamps were on his best days, but if he can even resemble him, then we done with our pivot for a few years. If he's not this guy, pls José, sign this guy because you can't simply teach technique to Ramires. A player either has class or not, has vision or not, is technical or not. Those things are hard to be learned, especially as old as he is.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

I hope he is given a proper chance, the kid had a career ahead of him with Ajax wanting him and we got him, so I hope we get to use him instead of wasting his talent, he looks like a decent player who could replace lampard's goals from mid, he has energy, potential, right attitude and age by his side. I really hope he wont be loaned out like every other young player we have

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

He might not turn into a world class player but he works hard and seems to be a player Mou would like working with. I can definitely see him carve out a squad role at least.

[Barbara 15,149]

He might not turn into a world class player but he works hard and seems to be a player Mou would like working with. I can definitely see him carve out a squad role at least.

for some reason he reminds me of Azpilicueta. They seem to have a lot in common working wise and also their personalities.

Mourinho said just the other day that a team with 11 Azpilicuetas can win the UCL.

I think those kind of guys have a lot of chances with Mourinho, especially if they're willing to do whatever he asks them. I think he's here to stay, regardless of how far he'll go in his career - technically wise.

[Rekin 835]

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2014/3/11/5495482/marco-van-ginkel-injury-update

So, MVG is back! :blue scalf:

I must say it makes me very happy, he will propably not play a great role this season, but I think he could very well be a part of our future midfield pivot.
Even putting the team aside, I think we can all be happy that he recovered so quickly for him personally, he seems like a hard-working guy with a great attitude.
Like Barbara above I too think that he is similar to Azpilicueta.

Maybe he used his rehab to build some muscles? He would benefit from being a bit more buff.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

With Kevin Strootman out of World Cup he has a small chance of making it to the WC

[Mr_President 404]

I haven't ever timed a player's recovery from an ACL but this has to be one of the fastest?

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Hope he is brought in slowly and given a lot of time and patience. The one thing that stood out for me when I saw him play was his tackling, hope he has still got that!

I don't remember much about his overall play, though.

I hope people don't expect too much from him, when a player is injured they seem to suddenly become much better in some peoples' minds than they were before they were injured!!

[The only place to be 11,313]

I haven't ever timed a player's recovery from an ACL but this has to be one of the fastest?

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Hope he is brought in slowly and given a lot of time and patience. The one thing that stood out for me when I saw him play was his tackling, hope he has still got that!

I don't remember much about his overall play, though.

I hope people don't expect too much from him, when a player is injured they seem to suddenly become much better in some peoples' minds than they were before they were injured!!

Recovery time is 6-9 months so he's certainly at the shorter end of the recovery timeline which you'd expect in a young man who has the best facilities at his disposal. How well he does from now is entirely up to his work ethic but generally it's agreed that 12 months is how long it takes people to get back to where they were.

But then there are cases where it's sooner and the poster boy for that is Adrian Peterson who was back training in four months and went on to have the second greatest season a running back in the NFL has ever had. At the other end of the scale is Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls who waited 12 months until he was fully healed and psychologically comfortable....then he injured his other knee.

There's no rush for him to come back for us. It'd be nice but it's unlikely he's the difference between us winning and losing the title. The big thing for him might be the Dutch World Cup squad. Personally I'd like to see him rehab slowly and be ready for the new season but it's down to him.