45. Romeo Lavia

[DH1988 1,273]

Our medical department is an absolute joke, Nagels was right to reject us after looking at the structure of the club.

[Vytis33 1,144]

 

[OneMoSalah 8,776]

The supposed saviour for our MF yet injured 90% of the games of his Chelsea career so far. Wtf is going on

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

1 hour ago, OneMoSalah said:

The supposed saviour for our MF yet injured 90% of the games of his Chelsea career so far. Wtf is going on

That sounds like he has even featured more than the 32mins he has. Instead he has missed 97% of games and 99% of minutes. No idea if he even remembers how to play football once he steps foot on the pitch again early 2026 to pull his hamstring shortly later 

Edited February 11 by Magic Lamps

[MoroccanBlue 5,297]

He and Lesly are our backups and both sick notes 

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

There is clearly a conditioning issue. Many of our regular starters seem to be somewhat resistant to injuries as they maintain match fitness by playing. but the medical department and physios seem unable to prevent those who have more of a squad role or just recovered form injury to constantly get thrown back by new or reoccurring issues. May also be the case that the  team training is not really preparing the players enough physically 

[Special Juan 27,424]

I said we won't see him before the end of the season after this last set back, I stand by it.

[NikkiCFC 7,946]

Back early March. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,297]

On 19/02/2024 at 12:24, NikkiCFC said:

Back early March. 

Out for the season. 

[Special Juan 27,424]

LOL knew that would be the case, we have bought another fucking crock

[Vytis33 1,144]

On 12/02/2024 at 06:46, Special Juan said:

I said we won't see him before the end of the season after this last set back, I stand by it.

Nailed it 

 

[Special Juan 27,424]

Made of fucking glass

[MoroccanBlue 5,297]

Wish there was someone that did an investigation for all these injuries. 

PL Games started this season. 

 

Reece James - 5

Lesly Ugochukwu - 3

Christopher Nkunku - 2

Carney Chukwuemeka - 2

Romeo Lavia - 0

Wesley Fofana - 0

[Vytis33 1,144]

What's that like 220M of transfer fees for 7 league starts?

[gdlk 272]

I guess our medic team finished its degree all on internet course... Is there a worst physios and medics than ours? 

[OneMoSalah 8,776]

He was never going to play that regularly ahead of Enzo, Moises & Connor anyway.

Said it at the time, he had played one season at Southampton (had a good game against us) and he was some sort of must sign player. 

Not sure what the medical team are at either as it is a reoccurring theme but we pretty much signed him injured in the summer and it’s been injury after injury ever since.

Said it at the time the likes of him & Ugo, particularly when you consider the apparent hype and whatever around Andrey Santos, were stupid signings when we really needed some proven quality in to help what we already had. We could have signed Joao Palhinha from Fulham for £55-65m and had some change left over instead of what we paid for the two of them.

Edited March 27 by OneMoSalah

[Tomo 21,733]

12 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

He was never going to play that regularly ahead of Enzo, Moises & Connor anyway.

Said it at the time, he had played one season at Southampton (had a good game against us) and he was some sort of must sign player. 

Maybe under Poch but if/when we finally have a modern/possesion based manager it will be a Lavia/Enzo/Caicedo three with Conor (if he's still here) used appropriately as the horses for courses option.

[Vesper 28,796]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2024/03/27/Chelsea-romeo-lavia-ruled-out-rest-of-season/

Romeo Lavia has been ruled out for the remainder of the season after suffering a setback in his recovery from injury – meaning he will have played just 32 minutes for Chelsea in the entire campaign.

 

Chelsea paid £53 million to sign 20-year-old Lavia from Southampton ahead of Liverpool last summer, but the midfielder has been struck down by injuries.

An ankle injury meant that it took Lavia four months to make his Chelsea debut as a 58th-minute substitute in the victory over Crystal Palace in December.

 

But Lavia suffered a significant thigh injury during that cameo and has not played since. On Wednesday, Chelsea confirmed that the Belgian has suffered a setback in his recovery and has now been ruled out for the remainder of the campaign.

 

Lavia is just one name on a long list of Chelsea players who have been out with injuries this season, which also includes Wesley Fofana, Reece James, Christopher Nkunku, Lesly Ugochukwu, Levi Colwill. Carney Chukwuemeka and Ben Chilwell have also been out, but have recently returned.

 

The Chelsea statement said: “Midfielder Romeo Lavia is to unfortunately miss the remainder of our 2023-24 campaign following a setback in his recovery.

“Recent medical assessments have confirmed that Lavia, who sustained a significant thigh injury against Crystal Palace back in December, will not feature again this season.”

 

Lavia’s absence will invite more scrutiny on Chelsea’s medical department, which has seen the resignation of long-serving medical director Dimitrios Kalogiannidis this year.

 

Chelsea have advertised the fact they are looking to appoint a new head of performance medicine on the Linkedin website.

 

The advertisement for the first-team role, for which the salary is listed as ‘competitive’ says: “This is a key role to the club and requires a collaborative, committed and professional medical practitioner, who can be a great teammate.

 

The role will include but not limited to providing injury or illness assessments, undertaking player signing medicals and assisting in decision making and rehabilitation management of medical issues when required.”

 

It adds: “We want to deliver football medicine and performance sciences differently. To create and be an integrated, open-minded and performance support focused team behind the team.

 

We seek to empower our staff, and our model is evolving as we seek to bring in new approaches and thoughts.

“We are looking for someone who can build rapport quickly with staff and players, and be a clear communicator to allow all involved to be fully informed of players’ health status and readiness to play.”