Should Chelsea be coming out and making a statement on them and explaining what they are going to be doing to try and get on top all these ridiculous amount of injuries of late? I believe they should be.
We see many reports around suggesting that they are looking to make more hires in the medical department, does this mean they are pinning the blame there? Do they think it’s all just hugely unfortunate luck? Again, it would be nice to hear from them directly on this, because it’s become a total disgrace.
For me, it’s going to be a mixture of everything. The players are clearly worked very hard by Mauricio Pochettino, who has a massive emphasis on running a lot and being stupidly fit.
It’s obviously a positive to have a super fit team to be able to press high and have a nonstop work rate, but is that effecting some of the players and causing more injuries? Probably.
Are the players being rushed back too soon? Are they not being bought back in soon enough? And if the answer is yes, which it probably is for both questions on some occasions, then who is signing that off and making those decisions? Medical staff? Manager? Owners? Directors? Again, more questions we would like to know the answers to but will surely get very little correspondence on other than media reports and claims. Why not clear it all up yourselves?
I know I am asking a lot of questions here without providing the answers but in all honesty, we know very little on this other than I heard they want to revamp the medical department some more before the summer, but there has already been some big changes there and now it looks like we will be seeing more. So does that mean the previous changes didn’t work and we made the wrong hires? Again, probably.
The players also have a responsibility to look after themselves away from Cobham. Have some of them being doing too much and making themselves too heavy by doing too many weights? Are they eating the right foods and doing the right recovery work away from the training ground?
We know that Reece James has now dropped some weight in order to help try and maintain himself after his recovery. So maybe that’s been an issue with other players as well?
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Maybe some players are just injury prone and that IS down to bad luck. We know players like Ben Chilwell ARE injury prone, so there isn’t much you can do about that. But then should more be done to research historical injuries before we sign new players? Should this data be looked at more seriously and put as more of a priority?
Players like Conor Gallagher just do not seem to get injured, and he’s there doing the most running in training and in games. So what does that mean? What is he doing differently? It’s not like the medical staff will be looking after him better than other players, is it?
The fact is that some players will need to be managed and treated differently to others, no? Some players will need to have adaptations to training and recovery, because some players are just not built the same as others. More thought, planning, and science needs to go into it all.
None of it really makes any sense to me. But what I do know is that we have had a stupid number of returning injured players who have gone back to the pitches to run, then get another setback with their recovery. This cannot keep happening and we need to hear from the club on why it is and what they are doing to try and tackle it.
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