[Albion] Kaoru Mitoma [27/2/24 - possibly out for the rest of the season]

[el punal]

Wonderful.

Mitoma out for the season, Hinshelwood out for the season, Gilmore 3 game ban. Didn't take long for the clubs lack of investment in January to backfire did it.

Why don’t you buy the club a crystal ball, then they could predict which players will be injured on whatever date and ensure that future investment in more players would cover the shortfall. There, solves all our problems at a stroke.

 

[Mullet of Ken Tiler]

I assume it's too late to swap Barco for Mitoma in the EL squad?

 

[Nicks]

To be honest I think those of us lucky to do the European games this season are the chosen few as being realistic I think our chance of playing in Europe next season are diminishing quickly.


( Please prove me wrong RDZ )

 

[Mancgull]

Re the RDZ reaction; seems to be in quite a positive frame of mind about matters compared to Jan. Wonder why?

Such a shame about Mitoma. Certainly a big miss for this season.

Maybe reduces the risk of him going in the summer.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

we've been hit very badly in that position and to pretend otherwise really is quite something.

Thank you.

 

[London Irish]

RDZ specifically highlighted the absence of Mitoma as a reason why we didn't beat Everton

 

[MJsGhost]

To a certain extent possibly, I don't think its overly naïve to go into the second half of the season with 6 options on the wing. I think something may be needed to looked at as to why Mitoma, played at the Asia Cup and why he continued to play if he had a back injury. I don't think we were that light on numbers, the problem with Mitoma is he does something no one else does. Its a shame but we will have to cope on that front and ultimately some players who have been arguably underwhelming this season like Fati will need to step up. The striker situation is a farce but that has been the case for a few years now clearly, Welbeck for however good he is, is so injury prone and a 19 Y/o is going to be inconsistent, but every window that never changes.

Have you forgotten about Joao Pedro already?

 

[Uh_huh_him]

How many wingers do we have out? Looks to me like we've managed to field them every game.

Out and out wingers?
2 of 3 are now out for the season.

We have plenty of 10s, that will play out wide for us though.
Fully trust De Zerbi to come up with a solution.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Why don’t you buy the club a crystal ball, then they could predict which players will be injured on whatever date and ensure that future investment in more players would cover the shortfall. There, solves all our problems at a stroke.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to use the forewarning to prevent the injury from happening?
Or would that break causality leading to the destruction of the entire universe? I can see why we might invest more in cover for wingers rather than going down that route.

 

[jackalbion]

Have you forgotten about Joao Pedro already?

Arguably not a striker but I take the point.

 

[Springal]

RDZ specifically highlighted the absence of Mitoma as a reason why we didn't beat Everton

But we also drew 6 out of 9 draws with him. And lost 6 of our 7 losses. So bit of nonsense from RDZ really

 

[London Irish]

When March was crocked in October, a direct replacement needed to be acquired. Now we are paying the price as others have gone down and even some others could also be potentially injured in the remaining months of the season

 

[Bodian]

Adingra on left, Julio on the right.
Sorted.

Igor on the right wing!!

 

[Clive Walker]

But we also drew 6 out of 9 draws with him. And lost 6 of our 7 losses. So bit of nonsense from RDZ really

But won 9 out of 10 wins!

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

When March was crocked in October, a direct replacement needed to be acquired.

Transfer window was closed.

 

[Springal]

But won 9 out of 10 wins!

Can’t be - we won 3 games without him

 

[HangletonGull]

My point being is I don't think wasting time on KDH was what was integral. I think it was a lack of good deals, plus possibly a hole in the database, also the fact that our £20m DM signing is still 'not ready'.

Knew fully what your saying mate , just in shock we lost him for the season, im a happy clapper so I fully trust bloom and rdz, you going tomorrow?

 

[London Irish]

Transfer window was closed.

The January transfer window was closed in October? Make it make sense

 

[Bozza]

When March was crocked in October, a direct replacement needed to be acquired. Now we are paying the price as others have gone down and even some others could also be potentially injured in the remaining months of the season

I'm not disagreeing with you, but Adingra was our March right wing back-up at the beginning of the season with Fati being brought in as back-up/compeittion/rotation for Mitoma on the left.

We've been ridiculously unlucky.

 

[Weststander]

Can the toll of injuries be in anyway attributed to 6 additional games (so far)?

I mentioned this on nsc a few weeks ago and someone tried to shout me down with “it’s only 6”.