Is vicente a long way from match fitness ?

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Championship - Brighton won't rush Vicente - Yahoo! Eurosport

sounds a little worrying

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

That sounds fine to me. Play the player, not the name. It took Noone quite some time to come up to fitness, and now look at him go, and I hope the same for Vicente

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

It's right though you don't want to rush him. Don't want him to be best friends with the medical staff lol

 

[Turkey]

Well he did say he was 40% match fit. So at I guess... I'd say he's about 60% short at the moment.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

The game on Saturday showed how good our fitness levels are with City tiring as we got stronger. It also means Gus obviously has higher hopes than Vicente just being a 15-20 minute super sub so we should take this as good news in my opinion

 

[BHseagull]

Worrying? Not really, Gus would have known this before we signed him. As it stands, we are playing well & therefore have no need to rush him into the team. If we were down the bottom of the table with no goals/assists coming from midfield I would agree it is worrying as we would be relying on him to do the business immediately.

There is bound to be a lot of pressure on him to perform once he gets some game time. Gus is giving him the best chance of being at his best from game 1.

 

[JBizzleBeard]

Again I think that's about right and not worrying at all. Get him to 100% and have him come off the bench to terrorise weary Championship players. Good times!

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Are there any reserve games between now and the next lot of fixtures?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Are there any reserve games between now and the next lot of fixtures?

Just put this on another thread, Wed night against Forest Green at Lancing.

 

[ees complicated no?]

I'd rather see his first game at home instead of away so he has plenty of time to go.

 

[Gritt23]

I'd be more worried if he was some way from fitness, but we were playing him anyway.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

The season is marathon, not a 100 metre sprint.

 

[beorhthelm]

he's missed pre-season, so wouldn't expect him to be match fit.

 

[cjwoolven]

He may be far away from the fitness standard that Gus wants, compared to generally being fit to play football. From what i hear, Gus has our players training amazingly hard, and you can see it in the games.

 

[grummitts gloves]

Trust in Gus. I bet he wouldn't normally take a punt on a player who is only 40% fit, so Vicente must be worth it. We are doing well and have enough midfielders to cope whilst 'The Dagger' builds himself up to destroy the opposition. Strength in depth like we have never had before

 

[terryberry1]

i bet if he signed leicester he would have been chucked into the team on saturday even if he was only 40% fit

 

[Set of Tracksuits]

I agree with what's been said so far, I'd be happy not to seem him until October if it meant he was fully fit rather than rushing him in and then losing him to injury.

 

[Shooting Star]

The game on Saturday showed how good our fitness levels are with City tiring as we got stronger. It also means Gus obviously has higher hopes than Vicente just being a 15-20 minute super sub so we should take this as good news in my opinion

This is certainly true. Donny got tired at the Amex too at around 75 minutes, allowing Nooney and Buckley to tear them apart.

Our wingers are scary, especially in the last quarter of an hour or so.

 

[public school boy]

With four high profile games coming up I wouldn't even consider putting him in the team or even on the bench until the Ipswich game.

 

[Mackenzie]

Vicente is the cherry on the icing on the top of the cake.......he'll be ready when he's ready, until then we'll more than cope.