Boubacar Kamara

[tony scott]

We seem so reliant on him he makes it hard to play through our defence ,any replacements are a different in their defensive qualities . I really hope I’m wrong but I think it’s all going to a struggle without him.

[stevo_st]

Yep agree, the often unsung hero that makes everyone else tick.

[Smithy]

Tanswell says it was PCL injury. Without knowing the extent of the damage or indeed anything meaningful about knee injuries, a brief Google suggests potentially even longer rehab than an ACL. Keeping everything crossed, poor guy has had such awful luck.

If it's a full reconstruction, then yes, much like an ACL it seems.  But we don't know, and likely will never know, the extent of the injury.  I think it means any faint hope of seeing him again this season is done for.  I think we just have to keep everything crossed that he can be back to join in pre-season.

[London Villan]

Our stats with and without him show the massive drop off.
+60% win rate with him
40% win rate without him

We need to identify a replacement that can rotate/cover.

[paul_e]

Tanswell says it was PCL injury. Without knowing the extent of the damage or indeed anything meaningful about knee injuries, a brief Google suggests potentially even longer rehab than an ACL. Keeping everything crossed, poor guy has had such awful luck.

This is sort of true but you're missing the most important part. A severe tear to the ACL is, relatively, fairly easy to do, whereas getting that level of injury to a PCL is really difficult and, if it happens, is normally accompanied by other injuries.

The really nasty injury I got which had me out of sport for nearly 2 years was a grade 3 PCL injury but also had damage to my ACL, Medial and Meniscus. Given it sounds like this is purely a PCL injury but it needed surgery I'd be very surprised if it isn't a grade 2 tear where the surgery is fairly minor (I'd doubt there's a graft of any sort for example). If it's what I expect I'd guess he'll be back on grass around the end of the season and should be able to join full training for pre-season. This one is slightly difficult to judge though because surgery on this sort of damage is very rare, outside of sports they'd pretty much never even give it as an option, instead just focusing on natural recovery which would be anything from 3-9months, that we've gone ahead with surgery points to the latter end of that scale with us planning on the timeline I suggest of back for pre-season.

If it was more serious and he'd had to have full reconstructive surgery then yes 12-18months before he's playing again wouldn't be a surprise but nothing that has been said is suggesting that sort of timeframe.

[SamTheMouse]

Shame they can't just give him a double knee replacement. Preferably with nice new steel ones.

[Brazilian Villain]

Shame they can't just give him a double knee replacement. Preferably with nice new steel ones.

Better still, titanium.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Shame they can't just give him a double knee replacement. Preferably with nice new steel ones.

Better still, titanium.

With spikes coming out of them.

[Brend'Watkins]

I think we have to accept that when he’s fit we will at best be getting half a season out of him next season. Great player that he is he seems susceptible to knee injuries. I think Marseille had more than an inkling about this concern too. We need to see who is out there we might appoint of a similar nature we can rotate with him from now on. He’ll be impossible to sell for his real value unfortunately.

[KevinGage]

The other issue is that - even if you do a full rehab and return to first team consideration- these are the sort of injuries that rob a crucial yard or two of pace and nip off you. That can make all the difference at the top level.

To get one and bounce back is fortunate. To get two in the same area is pushing it.

[eye digress]

Different knees, though. So just as likely to recover?

[Beard82]

AH - is it not the same leg?  I assumed it was!

[Somniloquism]

I think we have to accept that when he’s fit we will at best be getting half a season out of him next season. Great player that he is he seems susceptible to knee injuries. I think Marseille had more than an inkling about this concern too. We need to see who is out there we might appoint of a similar nature we can rotate with him from now on. He’ll be impossible to sell for his real value unfortunately.

So never having a knee injury in his time at Marseille means they let him run down his contract because they "inkled" he had knee problems?