Boubacar Kamara - officially signed new 5 year contract.

[Mister E]

I would be happy for them to put their trust in Tim if we need cover; I don't think re-positioning players who should already be in the team serves us well.

[Risso]

I would be happy for them to put their trust in Tim if we need cover; I don't think re-positioning players who should already be in the team serves us well.

Agreed. Assuming Kamara is out for a while now, I'd say this is how I'd line up:

Martinez

Cash Carlos Torres Digne/Moreno

McGinn Luiz Iroegbunam Ramsey

Bailey Watkins

[Demitri_C]

I mean three ACLs in a season it doesnt get much worse than that IF true

[paul_e]

Just to wind back a little, it's not being 'reported on social media' it's 1 account with a pretty iffy record on injuries that captured a still frame of the match and said it looked like an ACL injury. Pretty much everything stems from that 1 report.

For what it's worth the image makes it look a lot worse than it does in video, when you see it in real time it looks like a small degree of lateral hyperflexion (or the knee bending to the side slightly more than you'd normally expect). At worst I'd guess a grade 2 MCL which would be 4-6weeks, more likely nothing serious or a grade 1 which would be 3weeks-ish.

[SamTheMouse]

Cheers, Paul, I feel slightly less sick after reading that!

[edgysatsuma89]

We all know McGinn and Luiz in the middle doesn't really work so if the worst happens I would much rather Tim be given a go. I know history tells us Emery won't do this but I'd like it given a good go.

[Olneythelonely]

Cheers, Paul, I feel slightly less sick after reading that!

Have a feeling we might all be feeling a bit more sick when the issue is announced.

[john e]

Even if he’s only out for up to 6 weeks it’s still a big blow to our top 4 hopes

[Somniloquism]

Just to wind back a little, it's not being 'reported on social media' it's 1 account with a pretty iffy record on injuries that captured a still frame of the match and said it looked like an ACL injury. Pretty much everything stems from that 1 report.

For what it's worth the image makes it look a lot worse than it does in video, when you see it in real time it looks like a small degree of lateral hyperflexion (or the knee bending to the side slightly more than you'd normally expect). At worst I'd guess a grade 2 MCL which would be 4-6weeks, more likely nothing serious or a grade 1 which would be 3weeks-ish.

There is a second account from a Villa Social Media / Podcaster who is the also saying it and adding the Konsa scan news as well. He might be lifting the Kamara story because of the account you mentioned, but surprised he decided that Konsa needed a week for a scan, even with swelling, but Kamara gets one straight away.

TBH, we will know either way by the end of the week.

[Somniloquism]

Even if he’s only out for up to 6 weeks it’s still a big blow to our top 4 hopes

I'm not so sure. We lost Kamara AND Torres after Brentford. We got Kamara back three games later and saw no improvement in form (Sheffield away being the only exception). I think Torres has been the bigger blow at the moment.

[kippaxvilla2]

Apart from yesterday Kamara has been pretty average for a few weeks.  Put Tim in.

[Paul.S]

I genuinely wonder how anyone would know what the injury is.
Is it based on an image or has there been a leak from the club? I don’t see how you can diagnose an injury from an image
although he did put his hand up for attention straight away after doing it.
It’s Villa though so I expect the worst but pray it’s good news.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

We all know McGinn and Luiz in the middle doesn't really work so if the worst happens I would much rather Tim be given a go. I know history tells us Emery won't do this but I'd like it given a good go.

I’d agree. Give Tim a few games to see how he gets on but I’ll be surprised if Emery does.

[pauliewalnuts]

I genuinely wonder how anyone would know what the injury is.
Is it based on an image or has there been a leak from the club? I don’t see how you can diagnose an injury from an image
although he did put his hand up for attention straight away after doing it.
It’s Villa though so I expect the worst but pray it’s good news.

As you said, it is Villa and it seems to be that it always turns out to be worse than it looks for us.

What next?

We’ll probably find out that the reason Unai touches his face so much during interviews isn’t because it’s a sort of nervous thing, it’s actually because he has stage 4 face cancer.

[Olneythelonely]

Confirmed ACL tear