Joe Gomez

[Swipe]

Have you seen the adverts on there - and other places tbf - about earwax and the stuff you pull from your mouth after you've eaten? f***ing horrific.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

5 hours ago, Swipe said:

His body has taken so much damage already. You'd start to fear for him now.

But yeah - we just need to be ruthless and buy someone for the first XI in January.

Aye - Danny Agger style. Can't see him playing past 30 at this rate

[Smith]

6 minutes ago, Swipe said:

Have you seen the adverts on there - and other places tbf - about earwax and the stuff you pull from your mouth after you've eaten? f***ing horrific.

Well, the adds are based on your browsing history.

[Jarg Armani]

5 minutes ago, Smith said:

Well, the adds are based on your browsing history.

Ha ha I was going to say that 

[Gethin]

Click the "Reader View" button as soon as the page loads. Strips out all the s***e

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reader-view/ecabifbgmdmgdllomnfinbmaellmclnh

 

Won't do anything about Swipe's chronic earwax problem mind.

[JRC]

4 hours ago, Leo No.8 said:

Such a pity for the lad, you do have to assume his knees are going to continue to cause issues.

Players with persistent knee injuries tend to be the ones that have to retire early. You can’t keep causing major damage to your knee which is such a crucial and load bearing area of your leg, without the threat of it jeopardising your mobility later in life.

So this is exactly what we should be doing. From a footballing perspective we should even be looking to upgrade on the Gomez of the last 9 months or so. In his career with us he’s had a couple of spells of outstanding form and a couple of spells of shaky form.

You have to think the injuries are a factor in that. It is such a shame because he’s a class act at his best.

The positive spins are: - 

His career will be longer than most, because he won't have as many miles in his legs by the time he is 32; he could end up being as effective a perma-crock CB as say Paul McGrath or Ledley King; and he will miss the waste of time and effort Euros next Summer. Win-Win-Win, basically.

[Swipe]

1 hour ago, Smith said:

Well, the adds are based on your browsing history.

I can safely say I've literally never googled 'earwax' or 'food residue in your mouth'.

[Earl Hafler]

2 hours ago, Swipe said:

and the stuff you pull from your mouth after you've eaten? f***ing horrific.

? 

[Earl Hafler]

2 hours ago, JRC said:

The positive spins are: - 

His career will be longer than most, because he won't have as many miles in his legs by the time he is 32; he could end up being as effective a perma-crock CB as say Paul McGrath or Ledley King; and he will miss the waste of time and effort Euros next Summer. Win-Win-Win, basically.

King retired at 32

Keepers could still pick up a back pass when McGrath was 32.

Good luck, Joe. 

[Swipe]

Been very quiet on him. Keep seeing videos and photos of VVD but nothing of Joe.

His was a more severe injury wasn’t it? 

[Ombudsam]

13 minutes ago, Swipe said:

Been very quiet on him. Keep seeing videos and photos of VVD but nothing of Joe.

His was a more severe injury wasn’t it? 

I think even if he does come back then he is done

[Swipe]

Just now, sammy & a said:

I think even if he does come back then he is done

Really? Due to the injury itself of just the fact it’s another bad one his body has taken?

[Barnesy_10]

7 minutes ago, sammy & a said:

I think even if he does come back then he is done

Aye... His body has had to deal with some awful injuries at such a young age. 

Real shame as he would be a long term good option at CB, but he has horrendous luck with injuries 

[Ombudsam]

10 minutes ago, Swipe said:

Really? Due to the injury itself of just the fact it’s another bad one his body has taken?

The severity of this one combined with a couple of the monster ones he’s had but this one sounds bad enough in itself.

I can’t see him back to early 18/19 or mid 19/20 form. I feel like he’ll go the way of Kewell.

4 minutes ago, Barnesy_10 said:

Aye... His body has had to deal with some awful injuries at such a young age. 

Real shame as he would be a long term good option at CB, but he has horrendous luck with injuries 

It feels structural. Why would his whole knee just go like that otherwise.

[Gethin]

You'd think that if the team thought he was properly done, then we'd be being a lot more aggressive about buying a replacement at the moment.

Edited December 31, 2020 by Gethin

[Swipe]

Wonder why we haven’t seen Anthony of just rehabilitation on the club channels. Might be perfectly normal of course but seems strange. Unless he still can’t do anything at all. 

[Stanley Leisure]

Could be a personal choice? 

He’s not hugely forthcoming on social media or in general, come to think of it. 

Edited December 31, 2020 by Stanley Leisure

[Swipe]

Yeah true. It’s for the fans that type of thing with VVD isn’t it. Just reassuring people he’s on track. The more I think about it though it must be Gomez is a good bit behind in terms of recovery and probably hasn’t been at the training complex since.

 

[Leo No.8]

44 minutes ago, sammy & a said:

I think even if he does come back then he is done

I was going to say the same thing Sammy, I have a really bad feeling that he won’t be the same player again, but of course very much hope I’m wrong.

I just don’t think you can suffer repeated major knee injuries like he has and not pay a price.

Injuring yourself this badly when running or kicking a football on your own has to suggest some major weakness in the structure of his knee I would think.

He seems like a great lad, very likeable and down to earth. And on the pitch for a time him and VVD were the best partnership in the business - such a shame. 

Edited December 31, 2020 by Leo No.8

[Hassony]

9 minutes ago, Swipe said:

Yeah true. It’s for the fans that type of thing with VVD isn’t it. Just reassuring people he’s on track. The more I think about it though it must be Gomez is a good bit behind in terms of recovery and probably hasn’t been at the training complex since.

 

Yeah, think Joe is definitely out for the season, VVD is 2-3 months away at worst hopefully

[Swipe]

Gomez could struggle to be fit for next August if it’s as bad an injury as some suggest. Even more reason to try to get in someone good enough to be first choice. 

[Leo No.8]

On a lighter note I missed the stuff about Swipe’s chronic ear wax last time around. Get well soon mate, will you be providing social media updates on your battle with it? Close up pictures of cleaner ear buds, video of someone speaking to you in a normal voice and you hearing them etc. 

Edited December 31, 2020 by Leo No.8

[Atticus Finch]

In the interview Gomez did a couple of months ago he mentioned doing lots of weight training when he was a kid - made me wonder whether doing that with a still developing body increases the risk of injury longer term

[PaulMcC186]

22 minutes ago, Atticus Finch said:

In the interview Gomez did a couple of months ago he mentioned doing lots of weight training when he was a kid - made me wonder whether doing that with a still developing body increases the risk of injury longer term

Klopp made him lose muscle. Said something like you only need that muscle to show off at the beach.

[Cam]

1 hour ago, Swipe said:

Wonder why we haven’t seen Anthony of just rehabilitation on the club channels.

Swipe's clearly been picking at his ear wax with his fingers and it's affected his typing.