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Offline Ads

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #810 on: November 18, 2017, 07:31:09 AM »
Players are invariably never 100% fit.

Play any physical sport seriously and you'll always have niggles.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #811 on: November 18, 2017, 07:39:29 AM »
time for Bruce to be bold and get some U23's in

Offline pbavfckuwait

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #812 on: November 18, 2017, 08:21:43 AM »
Quite agree Ads, but their level of fitness and also their record of breaking down if being played to soon should also play a major role in the Managers thinking and there is a difference between playing a player that is not 100% fit and playing a player with a broken rib, that at one stage in the game, gasped with pain as he chested the ball down, if that is your idea of good management of players fine, it is not mine.

Offline passitsideways

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #813 on: November 18, 2017, 10:46:54 AM »
Silver lining for me is that I'd say we're better playing with a five-man midfield anyway, and this would force Bruce's hand in that direction.

Offline adrenachrome

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #814 on: November 18, 2017, 11:20:02 AM »
From an article in the Express and Star:

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Kodjia had missed Villa’s two matches immediately prior to the international break after rolling the same ankle he broke in April, an injury which kept him sidelined for more than four months and caused him to sit out the start of the campaign.

After deciding to travel with the Ivory Coast ahead of their crunch World Cup qualifier with Morocco, Kodjia then suffered another injury to the ankle during his first training session with the national team.

The 28-year-old, who scored 19 goals last season, will see a specialist on Monday when Villa will learn the true extent of the problem but Bruce has already admitted to fearing the worst.

The manager also insisted the club had been “powerless” to prevent Kodjia going away on international duty.

“We could not stop him,” said Bruce. “We have been in constant touch with their people. I could not stop him, it was a big World Cup game.

“How could I stop him playing in that when he thought he was going to be fit? He was touch and go to play against Sheffield Wednesday and we knew in another week he was going to be OK.

“Unfortunately his first intensive training session, what can you do? The first real intensive training session he has done has brought it to life.

“He has broken down in that training session and we have now had him here, had scans. We are waiting for the specialists but it is not good.”

Read more at Express and Star


Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #815 on: November 19, 2017, 07:55:55 AM »
May well need a loan signing in January

Danny Ings?

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #816 on: November 19, 2017, 11:55:43 AM »
Benteke?

Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #817 on: November 19, 2017, 04:48:58 PM »
Benteke?

Palace to loan out their only centre forward and record signing in the middle of a relegation battle?

 Gonna guess this isn’t happening

Offline Boz

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #818 on: November 19, 2017, 06:18:22 PM »
Sunday Mirror is saying he's out for the season.

Offline Steve67

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #819 on: November 19, 2017, 07:00:34 PM »
Sunday Mirror is saying he's out for the season.

I read this in the People, what a rag. Out for the season?

Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #820 on: November 19, 2017, 07:05:28 PM »
Sunday Mirror is saying he's out for the season.

Seems a bit unlikely

Plus it’s the Sunday mirror. I wouldn’t believe rhat rag if they told me it wa Sunday

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #821 on: November 19, 2017, 07:57:07 PM »
It's bound to be true.

This is Villa we are talking about.

Offline ciggiesnbeer

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #822 on: November 19, 2017, 10:55:04 PM »
The Villa View blokes were saying the rumours coming out of the club are that its very bad. I really hope not.

Offline eamonn

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #823 on: November 20, 2017, 12:31:31 AM »
Will we get compensation from the Ivory Coast?

Offline Nastylee

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Re: Jonathan Kodjia - CONFIRMED
« Reply #824 on: November 21, 2017, 10:47:26 PM »
News filtering through that he needs another op. Doubt we'll see him again this season.

 


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