Boubacar Kamara - out for the season

[Risso]

Jesus wept. It looked like it was going to be a bad one from that photo doing the rounds, and our worst fears are confirmed. It also proves that Twitter is always bang on when it comes to bloody Villa injuries.

[PaulWinch again]

I don’t share others views that we can shuffle the deck and basically more or less cover the loss. Kamara is uniquely excellent within our squad, this is an absolutely catastrophic blow to our chances.

3 ACLs to key first team squad players is just ridiculous, suspect it won’t get the same coverage as Spurs having some absences for a few months.

[Olof's Beard]

We didn't sell Dendoncker though, we've loaned him. Limited FFP gains, surely barely worth the risk. We can flog him at the end of the season regardless.

Unai did back Tim but has only given him a few minutes since he got back, each time in a losing cause with the pressure off. I'd be shocked if he suddenly starts him, I think it'll be McGinn and Luiz in the middle with Tielemans ahead of them.

[Paul.S]

I’ve never heard anything like this.
Let’s hope it’s only another 3 weeks for Konsa because we really are thin on the ground now.
A massive loss but one we’ll have to live with and a chance for young Tim to come in and show us what he’s got.
Maybe a total tactical rethink from Emery now.

[Drummond]

We didn't sell Dendoncker though, we've loaned him. Limited FFP gains, surely barely worth the risk. We can flog him at the end of the season regardless.

Unai did back Tim but has only given him a few minutes since he got back, each time in a losing cause with the pressure off. I'd be shocked if he suddenly starts him, I think it'll be McGinn and Luiz in the middle with Tielemans ahead of them.

I'd rather use the players we have than Dendoncker.

[ChicagoLion]

I don’t share others views that we can shuffle the deck and basically more or less cover the loss. Kamara is uniquely excellent within our squad, this is an absolutely catastrophic blow to our chances.

3 ACLs to key first team squad players is just ridiculous, suspect it won’t get the same coverage as Spurs having some absences for a few months.

Absolute nightmare, our problems started with his sending off and we really did not cope well without him.
What a shit weekend.

[manic-road]

Kamara will be a big miss, the three game ban he got at Christmas showed how integral he was to the team and results dipped in his absence.

[Olof's Beard]

We didn't sell Dendoncker though, we've loaned him. Limited FFP gains, surely barely worth the risk. We can flog him at the end of the season regardless.

Unai did back Tim but has only given him a few minutes since he got back, each time in a losing cause with the pressure off. I'd be shocked if he suddenly starts him, I think it'll be McGinn and Luiz in the middle with Tielemans ahead of them.

I'd rather use the players we have than Dendoncker.

Well like I said, he deputised last season just fine. I don't see how loaning him out helps in this situation, it's a specialist position and he plays it. None of our other players do.

[chrisw1]

Absolute choker this is.

Is this something to do with or pitch?  There is plastic grass woven in with the real grass - are studs catching?

[Ads]

Again, Tim does.

[Villafirst]

It's not definitely an ACL, it could be an MCL, although it's still not good at all.

[Gareth]

We didn't sell Dendoncker though, we've loaned him. Limited FFP gains, surely barely worth the risk. We can flog him at the end of the season regardless.

Unai did back Tim but has only given him a few minutes since he got back, each time in a losing cause with the pressure off. I'd be shocked if he suddenly starts him, I think it'll be McGinn and Luiz in the middle with Tielemans ahead of them.

I'd rather use the players we have than Dendoncker.

Is my view too, dendoncker was a desperately poor signing, a couple of decent games and a lot of very poor ones…give Tim his head, we have
To be braver with using youngsters…the likes of Mainoo and Miley are thriving and their fans probably moaned about them being given a game initially.

[Risso]

Absolute choker this is.

Is this something to do with or pitch?  There is plastic grass woven in with the real grass - are studs catching?

Buendia was in training though (ie BMH), and Mings was away at Newcastle.

[PaulWinch again]

Again, Tim does.

It’s a huge leap from him playing a couple of minutes to being a completely pivotal player. Hopefully he can, but I’d be amazed if he’s anywhere near Kamara’s level in that position.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Now we're left with an untried kid or a square peg in a round hole.

In this case, untried kid gets my vote every time. The square peg in a round hole just takes too much away from us.

Gutted for Bouba and it looks like he'll only be back for pre-season.