Injury Latest - Terry, Sturridge & Romeu out injured.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Every cloud has its silver lining.

The Essien-Mikel combination just hasn't worked this season. However, the Essien-Ramires one has done, and the latter has been our best player without exception the last couple of games. He's been one of the few to try and try again; never to give up. We need a bit of consistency and the best way to do that is have a permanent fixture in the midfield, ie. the Lampard-Essien-Ramires triumvirate.

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Lampard speaks about his injury in detail.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gqM3ZghaJOLF2cElO6xWY9pUsLUw?docId=CNG.f1f4be5ff8c0625cfbb007232f3c6225.211

That sucks a lot for him, didn't deserve this. Yet no player probably does. He will never be fully fit again and he will have to train 10 times harder just to play football. Discussed this with my mate, and we think as he gets older and with such a bad injury that could be enough to stop any player playing and he might not be able to handle a full 90 minutes every week (plus midweek games also). Tearing the tendon off the bone....OUCH! I hope it doesn't hold him back but I am still confident in Lamps and he will bring a lot more to his career and Chelsea.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Lampard speaks about his injury in detail.

It's like he says, it's manageable but he just has to put more hours in the gym, which I'm sure he won't mind

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Also,

Zhirkov, Bertrand & Mikel were all seen training on CTV today - encouraging signs. If they can all get fit by next week, our only injuries will be to Alex and Benayoun *fingers crossed*

Van Aanholt out for 3 weeks

[strong centreback 157]

Am I the only advicator of sacking our medical team? from what I can make out they are useless, now dont get me wrong the injurys themselves cannot be attributed to the medical team but what can and what I find not only distressing as well being totally dumbfounded by is the fact that our medical department time and time again mis-bloody diagnose our players injurys, recently we have had franks injury which by his own admission seems like the club doctors didnt realise the extent of the damage he had done and during the rehab made it worse, benayoun is another that the doctors mis-diagnosed and ultimately made worse, prosinek from the youth team is another, bosingwa and essien when out for along time were only estimated to be out for a couple of months and then ended up being a better part of a season out and the former a year out, depending on what you read and believe their was a rumour that our medics didnt phone for an ambulance for cech after the stephen cunt incident straight away and only did so when he deteriorated (must say that is unsubstantiated though) also john terry for the last 5 years had been playing with a back problem that nobody at the club had a clue about and instead just seemingly kept doing him up with cortisone, lets think what else Drogba for over 3 months was suffering from malaria before it got taken care of I mean how hard is it to put two and two together to get four, he goes back to africa alot it doesnt take a phd to work out it could be malaria one of the most common deceases in africa he had the bloody symptoms. Why has it been nearly 2 months since alex had his op yet we still dont have any kind of time frame for a return.

Bloody annoying that seemingly no matter how many cock ups they make they dont get held accountable for it, sack the lot and sign up the best medics we can get it wont be hard to get better than we already have they only have to be competent, rant over

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Van Aanholt out for three weeks... is that 21 days, or three weeks like Lampard or Zhirkov?

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Am I the only advicator of sacking our medical team? from what I can make out they are useless, now dont get me wrong the injurys themselves cannot be attributed to the medical team but what can and what I find not only distressing as well being totally dumbfounded by is the fact that our medical department time and time again mis-bloody diagnose our players injurys, recently we have had franks injury which by his own admission seems like the club doctors didnt realise the extent of the damage^[1] he had done and during the rehab made it worse, benayoun is another that the doctors mis-diagnosed and ultimately made worse^[2], prosinek from the youth team is another, bosingwa and essien when out for along time were only estimated to be out for a couple of months and then ended up being a better part of a season out and the former a year out^[3], depending on what you read and believe their was a rumour that our medics didnt phone for an ambulance for cech after the stephen cunt incident straight away and only did so when he deteriorated (must say that is unsubstantiated though) also john terry for the last 5 years had been playing with a back problem that nobody at the club had a clue about and instead just seemingly kept doing him up with cortisone^[4], lets think what else Drogba for over 3 months was suffering from malaria before it got taken care of^[5] I mean how hard is it to put two and two together to get four, he goes back to africa alot it doesnt take a phd to work out it could be malaria one of the most common deceases in africa he had the bloody symptoms. Why has it been nearly 2 months since alex had his op yet we still dont have any kind of time frame for a return^[6].

Bloody annoying that seemingly no matter how many cock ups they make they dont get held accountable for it, sack the lot and sign up the best medics we can get it wont be hard to get better than we already have they only have to be competent, rant over

^[1] If you'll remember, Frank's injury was not a direct consequence of his hernia operation. The media were very quick to jump on the fact it was, despite us telling the world that it was actually an injury to the abductor muscle in his leg. It was this that kept him out for long, it was diagnosed correctly, and the time he was out made sense.

^[2] Benayoun came out and publicly said the Chelsea doctors were not to blame. Chelsea had made the right diagnosis, but when he went to link up with Isreal on international duty, he'd strained the injury and made it even worse.

^[3] Essien's injury was originally to his hamstring. Upon recovering from this, he went on international duty with Ghana in September 08. It was here he suffered an anterior cruciate ligament damage. Which can keep players out for almost a year. He made his return on March 09 (he scored that beauty vs Barcelona remember). He then went on international duty again, with Ghana at the 2010 Cup of Nations. It was here that they misdiagnosed him! They'd said he'd got an anterior cruciate ligament injury again but he knew otherwise. Chelsea made the correct diagnosis.

^[4] John Terry's injury could not be treated by anyone. As you'll recall the injury was not so bad that he could not carry on, JT is a warrior, he would not have wanted to take time out to treat the injury because it was manageable via injections. It's only recently the pain has gotten worse (because he's older) that's why he had to fly to Italy - At the recommendation of Bryan English (the chief doctor at Chelsea)

^[5] The thing with Malaria is, it's not instant. The effect can take as long as 2 months to appear in the system, until then, there was no need to get him checked. In fact - I read somewhere - Chelsea insisted on getting a blood test when Drogba thought it was a simple flu. Malaria can also take a while to get out the system, it can take months (ask Cheryl Cole)

^[6] Alex's operation took place in Brazil. Chelsea made it clear they would assess him when he returned this month, which he has. Right now I think they're diagnosing him - so a date should be available soon.

As you can see, all your points have had extenuating circumstances. I can see why you blame the medical staff though, for a long while the media has been telling us it was their fault. They purposely refer to Lampard's injury as a consequence of the hernia op - despite them knowing it's wrong. I hope this helps

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As you can see, all your points have had extenuating circumstances. I can see why you blame the medical staff though, for a long while the media has been telling us it was their fault. They purposely refer to Lampard's injury as a consequence of the hernia op - despite them knowing it's wrong. I hope this helps

Good post my good man I take it I get bosingwas injury and prosineks though , it still seems to me that when ever they give a return timeframe that you can be almost certain that its double what they say

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Good post my good man I take it I get bosingwas injury and prosineks though , it still seems to me that when ever they give a return timeframe that you can be almost certain that its double what they say

Haha, well with Bosingwa's I don't think any of were sure what happened. He limped off with a knee injury in October (I think), then we heard he'd need surgery in March!! It was crazy, we got told nothing. Not sure if that's the medical staff's fault, or the club's lack of PR

But you get Prosinek's because I think that was a genuine cock-up.. But human errors happen

And on that last line - Agreed! LOL

[Peace. 4,352]

Van Aanholt out for three weeks... is that 21 days, or three weeks like Lampard or Zhirkov?

And you have forgot Mikel lol. So I think he will be out for three Chelsea weeks, ie three months... I guess our medical staff doesn't use the same calendar as us

It seems that Bertrand is back with us, so I hope CA rates him and keeps him to give some needed rest to Ashley Cole...

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Well since Patch will be out for the Everton away game, there's no excuse not to start Bertrand imo!

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Carlo says Alex will be back in February.

[Milan 17,854]

Carlo says Alex will be back in February.

So does that mean we are after some defender? As Carlo said a few weeks ago, our new potential signing depended on Alex's condition. Who knows...

Same with Yuri. He is nearer and nearer to his comeback but who knows when it will be.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Only three players are unavailable. Yury Zhirkov is in the final stages of his rehabilitation from a calf injury and Alex is expected to be back from knee surgery in February, fully fit before the Champions League returns. Yossi Benayoun makes up the three.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Good to see Benayoun on the treadmill.. Hopefully he'll be back sooner than April.

[Madmax 9,219]

Good to see Benayoun on the treadmill.

Depending on who you are, that's not good news

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Depending on who you are, that's not good news

LOL let's say no more on that

Blues News says Mikel's back to full strength, his knee and ankle are fine. Hopefully he'll start on Monday!

[Peace. 4,352]

LOL let's say no more on that

Blues News says Mikel's back to full strength, his knee and ankle are fine. Hopefully he'll start on Monday!

I really hope he will start instead of Essien... But I don't know why, I think CA will bench Ramires (if he starts Mikel)...