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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #885 on: December 15, 2021, 09:38:52 AM »
Absolutely gutted for Marv and for us.  He was in the form of his life.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #886 on: December 15, 2021, 09:39:51 AM »
Terrible news for the lad, never thought he'd really make it with us so he must be distraught that when he finally gets his Villa career going, it's then stopped in its tracks. The only remote silver-lining is that we'll have to try to get a replacement, and then we'll still have Marvelous to come back.

Yes, the only crumb of comfort is it happening now and not on 1st of Feb.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #887 on: December 15, 2021, 09:50:16 AM »
have we had it confirmed he is out for the season ?

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #888 on: December 15, 2021, 09:53:13 AM »
have we had it confirmed he is out for the season ?

Decision being made on surgery or otherwise today apparently.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #889 on: December 15, 2021, 10:39:34 AM »
Oh FFS! https://theathletic.com/news/aston-villas-marvelous-nakamba-likely-to-miss-rest-of-the-season/WCyCyO0tpHU6/

FFS, missed this. How can this happen just as he is developing into the player we have always wanted in that position? I was honestly beginning to think he could be the one we have lacked for the guts of a decade or more. His form has been sublime since SG came in. And now this. We do get awful luck with injuries.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #890 on: December 15, 2021, 10:52:12 AM »
Didn't he leave the pitch under his own steam? If it's a serious knee injury then he must be a blood machine. Absolutely gutted for him, he's gone from being maligned by much of the support, to being an integral part of the Gerrard side and style, and now this.  Fingers crossed he comes back stronger.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #891 on: December 15, 2021, 11:29:21 AM »
He jogged off as though it was a tactical change.

If he's being ruled out for the rest of the season, that's probably an ACL injury.

As someone who has torn their ACL, you ain't bloody jogging anywhere for several weeks.

That's kind of my point though. He jogged off with a smile on his face and now there's talk of it being a season ending injury. It's just very strange.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #892 on: December 15, 2021, 11:41:49 AM »
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Aston Villa manager Steven Gerrard has confirmed that Warriors star Marvelous Nakamba has a knee injury and will be out for ‘a number of months’.

  Nakamba was taken off in the 57th minute of the Claret and Blue’s 0-1 defeat to Liverpool this past weekend, due to the setback.
 The soft spoken midfielder went to see a specialist yesterday, to determine whether or not to have surgery and Gerrard said the situation is not looking good.


“The best way to put it is that we’ve had confirmation that he has got a knee injury,” he said after Villa’s 2-0 win over Norwich City and Carrow Road last night.


“We’re really going have a serious chat tomorrow in terms of whether we want him to have surgery or whether we’ll manage the injury conservatively.


“We’ll make that decision in the next 24 hours but he’s certainly going to be missing for some time because it’s a serious injury.“We need to now make the best decision which is really frustrating and disappointing because he has been outstanding but we’ll give him every bit of support and care to get him back as safe as possible.”


“We’ve got a rough idea but I don’t want to get wrong and I don’t want to put unnecessary pressure on the medical staff but he’ll certainly be missing for a number of months.”


Consequently, Nakamba will miss the AFCON finals in January. – Soccer24 Zimbabwe



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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #893 on: December 15, 2021, 11:47:37 AM »
Bit of a disaster although in the context of COVID we may not need him the way things are going. Get the cheque book out Purslow!.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #894 on: December 15, 2021, 11:57:23 AM »
Well at least SG is giving us the picture.  None of this "should, could, possibly, not quite ready, "we will assess, almost there, another week or two"  we have previously been fed after a reported "niggle".

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #895 on: December 15, 2021, 12:09:16 PM »
Yeah a "number of months"......Being my usual pessimistic self, recovering, getting fit etc., think you're talking April minimum so pretty much bye bye for the season. The club has to spend money in January now imo.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #896 on: December 15, 2021, 12:19:16 PM »
He jogged off as though it was a tactical change.

If he's being ruled out for the rest of the season, that's probably an ACL injury.

As someone who has torn their ACL, you ain't bloody jogging anywhere for several weeks.

That's kind of my point though. He jogged off with a smile on his face and now there's talk of it being a season ending injury. It's just very strange.


What happened to Wesley was a rarity in that he ended up being out for ages after clearly getting injured while playing. All our other absenteeism generally seems to be for nothing much that actually happened.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #897 on: December 15, 2021, 12:23:20 PM »
Well at least SG is giving us the picture.  None of this "should, could, possibly, not quite ready, "we will assess, almost there, another week or two"  we have previously been fed after a reported "niggle".

You'll be telling me next that keeping injuries secret isn't the brilliant tactical manoeuvre to outwit the opposition that it was made out to be.

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #898 on: December 15, 2021, 01:12:35 PM »
I would offer goal shy Brighton a swap of Ings for Bissouna

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Re: Marvelous Nakamba - confirmed
« Reply #899 on: December 15, 2021, 01:21:32 PM »
I would offer goal shy Brighton a swap of Ings for Bissouna

A little bit risky under the circumstances...

 


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