:rose: jack
for what he thought he could be and not what he became
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:rose: jack
for what he thought he could be and not what he became
http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/dri...9s-inju-170024Quote:
Last September, Arsenal announced Jack Wilshere would be out for four to five months. I immediately went on air and said he wouldn’t play again this season and he wouldn’t go to the Euros. Of course Gooners laughed, saying the Arsenal medical staff know more than me. It saddens me that I was totally right.
The timeline of Wilshere’s injury is shocking. At best, Wilshere has been spectacularly unlucky but you don’t need to be a cynic to start asking questions about how the injury was managed.
Last season, when he was still a teenager, Wilshere played 49 games for Arsenal and five for England. In that April, Wenger warned Capello publicly about “overloading” Wilshere. England played nine games that season; Jack missed four and played the full 90 minutes in only one international.
It wasn’t England who overloaded Jack Wilshere. Maybe Wenger’s current reluctance to use Alex Oxlade-chamberlain (at the same age Jack was that season) is his way of admitting he was the one guilty of asking too much of his star midfielder.
It’s true Wilshere suffered an injury against Switzerland in June 2011 while on England duty. That can happen in any game, for club or country. The big issue is how that injury was dealt with. Did the injury need urgent treatment after Wilshere went back to his club after the game? Probably. So why did Arsenal say he could go on holiday for a month?
At the end of the season, Wenger declared Wilshere was “in the red” because he’d played too many games. He said he did not agree with the FA’s decision to take Wilshere to the under-21 tournament with England. Wenger admitted Jack had been in the red “for a while now,” in short admitting he had played Jack too much. “
He knows he is nearly at the end of his energy level,” said the manager.
Wenger sat down with the player and persuaded him not to join up with England. Stuart Pearce said: “Arsenal have not left him out of the side in the last 6 weeks of the season, even though the stats have said he is in the red zone.”
This is where I believe a second opinion on Wilshere’s fitness would have been crucial. If he had joined up with England and been checked by the England doctors, who knows what they would have found. Wilshere has not played a competitive game since.
At the end of July 2011, after coming back from a Far East tour with Arsenal, Wilshere limped off seven minutes into the friendly with New York Red Bulls at The Emirates. It was described by Wenger as “ankle inflammation” before adding: “It is not very serious but it is serious because they [the Arsenal medical staff] say he might be out for all next week. He has not torn anything. He is a quick healer and a tough boy.” He hasn’t kicked a ball in anger since.
Two days later Wilshere tweeted: “Ankle scan just showed some inflammation. Hopefully will settle in a few days.”
Arsenal kicked off their season at Newcastle without Wilshere. Two days earlier, Wenger revealed the player’s foot was in a boot: “It is difficult to set any specific date on his return but we hope he will be back soon.”
So, after the Red Bulls game Wenger was told it would be a week. Just under two weeks later he was told there was no specific date for his return. Wenger was then hopeful Wilshere could play a part in the second leg of the Champions League qualifier in Udinese: “[Jack] has trained Thursday, Friday and Saturday. He has a chance to play.”
Wenger also described Wilshere’s injury as “not serious”. (In the same press conference Wenger also said Abou Diaby’s injury was “slowly improving” and hoped to have him back by the end of September. In November, Diaby played five minutes against Dortmund and 21 minutes against Fulham but was then out again until March when he came on as sub at Liverpool, only to go off injured late in the game)
Wilshere never made the trip to Italy, instead suffering a setback in training. The following weekend, Arsenal were humiliated at Old Trafford. Fast forward to September. On the 8th Wenger said Wilshere would be in the boot for a month. On the 15th Wenger said he would be in the boot for six weeks.
On the 19th Wilshere tweeted: “Ankle feeling a lot better hope to be back playing soon.” Four days later Arsenal announced Wilshere will be out for four to five months following an operation on his ankle.
In January 2012 there were more positive noises out of Arsenal. On the 18th January it was reported Jack was due to return to full training and was keen to make the AC Milan Champions League tie in mid-February. The Arsenal medics forecast a March return but revised that, describing Wilshere as a “medical miracle” because of the speed of recovery.
The same medics reported the bone where the stress fracture had been was “clear, with little risk of related muscular problems.” It was also reported Wilshere had “been running and working tirelessly in the gym for some weeks.”
Arsenal said it would be two weeks before his conditioning work was done and he would be available for selection. So that new date for a return was early February.
Late in January Wilshere tweeted: “It is true I have had a setback I can’t tell you how long I have been set back because I don’t know! I am very annoyed but will stay strong.” Wenger added the setback was being investigated: “He has pain again when running. We stopped him right away.”
A few days later Wilshere tweeted: “I can confirm I have a stress fracture but it is not in the same area as my first injury which has healed which I am happy about. I have developed a stress fracture in the heel now and I don’t want to put any time scale on it as I do not know how long it will take.”
Arsenal said there was no reason why he wouldn’t return before May. But now we know Wilshere is out for the season, out of the Euros. Wenger’s also told the player to forget about the Olympics because it will “destroy” the start of his season.
There are so many inconsistencies between what Arsenal say as a club, and what the player seems to be told, like medical staff describing him as a “medical miracle” before he breaks down again and delays over surgery before a stress fracture is discovered. Did the scans miss that? Why did Wenger keep playing him when his fitness levels were in the red zone at the end of the 2010-11 season?
Why did Arsenal play a teenager in 49 games? Why did Arsenal send him on holiday instead of treating his injury from the Switzerland game? Look at the shambles of misinformation from the player, the manager and the club in September 2011 – that’s embarrassing.
Why allow Wilshere to be “running and working tirelessly in the gym” while recuperating from the first operation? Did that gym time bring on the heel injury?
Read all of this properly and ask yourself these questions: was the player managed properly and was the injury managed properly? If you somehow answer yes to both, then ask how Jack Wilshere has missed the whole season and the European Championship. If your answer is that he is unlucky, then you’d get a job in the Arsenal FC press office.
Love him or hate him but Durham is spot fucking on here
Well he makes good points, But this was the same guy who last season on Radio was saying how Jack should play alot of games and how good he is etc.
He is only pissed because of the Euro's not Jack playing for us.
Not Many gooners moaned when he played this many games last season either its only now its gone wrong the moaners are out in force.
These are the same idiots who have insisted we over play OX this season and had the same thing happened they be 1st complaining another talent is injured.
But I do agree on why he was not sent to the hosptial was silly instead of letting him home for the summer.
Our medical team seems to have gone down alot since Gary Lewin left.
Time to bring in a new team me thinks should be the 1st priorty for this team.
IF he was good enough and wanted too don't really see the problem tbh, Messi has been doing it for years and years now. Pool did it with open when he was young, Everton with Rooney don't really see the problem.Quote:
Why did Arsenal play a teenager in 49 games? Why
He is young and fit he should be able to play that many games.
Of course there valid concerns of how we look after players but mainly, it is stupid from Durham. If he hadn't played so many games would he be clamouring for him to play for England? I would think not.
Also, Arteta is out for the remainder of the season. :doh:
Massive blow losing Arteta, if only for this game and the Stoke fixture.
More Ramsey flicks then. :doh:
What you say is true and maybe ot was too many games.
However The Masses of gooner fans where happy for Jack to play for us last season not many if any at all moaned he was playing too many games.
If he had been french i doubt Durham would really care right now.