Injury Latest - Terry, Sturridge & Romeu out injured.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Just saw about the Benayoun thing, big big loss for us. I think Carlo will sign an experienced midfielder in the Jan window, he has to now! We need experience in our midfield, we only have Lampard and Benayoun as the experienced guys, before we had Lampard, Ballack, Deco, Belleti & even Joe Cole. (I always said Ballack should've stayed)

Now that those 2 are sidelined, only Essien is the real experienced one (and he's not even THAT experienced). I think one jan signing of a midfielder will not hinder the youth progression but just add some wisdom to our midfield

[Blueboy 14]

Just saw about the Benayoun thing, big big loss for us. I think Carlo will sign an experienced midfielder in the Jan window, he has to now! We need experience in our midfield, we only have Lampard and Benayoun as the experienced guys, before we had Lampard, Ballack, Deco, Belleti & even Joe Cole. (I always said Ballack should've stayed)

Now that those 2 are sidelined, only Essien is the real experienced one (and he's not even THAT experienced). I think one jan signing of a midfielder will not hinder the youth progression but just add some wisdom to our midfield

Essien is experienced way ENOUGH imo, we do not need to have Maldini-like amounts of experience in midfield to not get blast aside or make stupid mistakes.

[zolayes 14,489]

Just saw about the Benayoun thing, big big loss for us. I think Carlo will sign an experienced midfielder in the Jan window, he has to now! We need experience in our midfield, we only have Lampard and Benayoun as the experienced guys, before we had Lampard, Ballack, Deco, Belleti & even Joe Cole. (I always said Ballack should've stayed)

Now that those 2 are sidelined, only Essien is the real experienced one (and he's not even THAT experienced). I think one jan signing of a midfielder will not hinder the youth progression but just add some wisdom to our midfield

no need to panic .....JUST YET

[zolayes 14,489]

Just saw about the Benayoun thing, big big loss for us. I think Carlo will sign an experienced midfielder in the Jan window, he has to now! We need experience in our midfield, we only have Lampard and Benayoun as the experienced guys, before we had Lampard, Ballack, Deco, Belleti & even Joe Cole. (I always said Ballack should've stayed)

Now that those 2 are sidelined, only Essien is the real experienced one (and he's not even THAT experienced). I think one jan signing of a midfielder will not hinder the youth progression but just add some wisdom to our midfield

no need to panic .....JUST YET .....even tho I posted this twice ,,,

Edited October 6, 2010 by zolayes

[ZanSnake 1,211]

We have Essien and Lampard, and if needed we have McEarhan as back up, young but he has already shown us he can be called upon when needed.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

We have Essien and Lampard, and if needed we have McEarhan as back up, young but he has already shown us he can be called upon when needed.

Essien is experienced way ENOUGH imo, we do not need to have Maldini-like amounts of experience in midfield to not get blast aside or make stupid mistakes.

no need to panic .....JUST YET

Don't get me wrong guys, I'm not worried right now (@zolayes). It's just, for argument sake, if Lampard were to pick up another knock and, touch wood, Essien were to be out, we'd only have Mikel, Ramires & McEachran(@ZanSnake). While this would be a midfield full of quality it would lack that experience that knows to keep the ball and slow down play in the last 10-20minutes, kind of like a Ballack or Scholes(@Blueboy.

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

Don't get me wrong guys, I'm not worried right now (@zolayes). It's just, for argument sake, if Lampard were to pick up another knock and, touch wood, Essien were to be out, we'd only have Mikel, Ramires & McEachran(@ZanSnake). While this would be a midfield full of quality it would lack that experience that knows to keep the ball and slow down play in the last 10-20minutes, kind of like a Ballack or Scholes(@Blueboy.

No point in wanting Ballack anymore, he is useless and keeps getting injured for Bayer

[Kostas 1,468]

Disappointing to see a member of the team injured especially with our non-existent depth but I guess he's replacing J.Cole in everything he did.Kakuta may be now more or less forced into the team.

[Slam Dunk 1,442]

Terry picks up injury while on duty with England:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12016_6437969,00.html

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Terry picks up injury while on duty with England:

http://www.skysports...6437969,00.html

Hopefully it's one of those "just in case" pull outs.

[Kostas 1,468]

Hopefully he'll be back by the Villa game,if not we've got two healthy CBs waiting to step in.We could be much worse.

PS:Shouldn't someone update this topic's name?

[Madmax 9,219]

Nothing on official CFC. As usual. Sigh.

Terry will be a big miss at VP. It's going to be very physical there.

[Steve 10,227]

I pray this is not serious!

[zolayes 14,489]

josh had to be subbed at ht in his game

[LDN Blue 7,903]

josh had to be subbed at ht in his game

That wasn't today was it? He came on from the subs bench after half time in the 4-0 win over Cyprus tonight.

[zolayes 14,489]

That wasn't today was it? He came on from the subs bench after half time in the 4-0 win over Cyprus tonight.

no was the previous game...report said he had to be subbed at HT so was worried he had been injured ...obviously just rotation ,,scare over

[LDN Blue 7,903]

no was the previous game...report said he had to be subbed at HT so was worried he had been injured ...obviously just rotation ,,scare over

Ah okay! I saw he scored in the previous game too.. Good signs

[Kostas 1,468]

Ramires got injured in his Brazil game.

Benayoun will undergo a surgery and will be out for approximately 6 months.

Edited October 11, 2010 by Kostas