Ibrahima Konaté

[Karl_b]

Vlad in "sniffy about other people's cultural choices" shocker.

[VladimirIlyich]

4 minutes ago, Karl_b said:

Vlad in "sniffy about other people's cultural choices" shocker.

Haha! I thought Manga was an exotic fruit.

[BeefStroganoff]

3 hours ago, Carra_is_legend said:

 

This is not the point though.

 

Konate has to be rested constantly so he does not get injured again, he cannot play 2 games in a season. His appearances in PL:

 

21/22: 11

22/23: 18

23/24: 20

 

 

Don’t spit facts.

 

Size of the lad and he can’t play two games a week.

[3 Stacks]

6 hours ago, BeefStroganoff said:

Don’t spit facts.

 

Size of the lad and he can’t play two games a week.

Thinking size intrinsically means more durable is about where your knowledge of this sort of stuff is.

[BeefStroganoff]

24 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Thinking size intrinsically means more durable is about where your knowledge of this sort of stuff is.

Hes centre half. You cant be a centre half if you are made out of baked beans and cant survive, you know, physicality.

[Lee909]

11 hours ago, Anubis said:

adult audience and can be excellent storytelling.

 

 

 

 

 

[Carra_is_legend]

It's funny to read some posts here. Of course we all love Konate, he can be absolutely immense but it's taking the piss when a professional footballer cannot play 2 games in most weeks.

[johnsusername]

20 minutes ago, Carra_is_legend said:

It's funny to read some posts here. Of course we all love Konate, he can be absolutely immense but it's taking the piss when a professional footballer cannot play 2 games in most weeks.

 

And not just any game, but against THEM, THERE, at the business end of the season. 

 

It's fucking go time and he's got his feet up! 

[lebron]

What IS a pretty regular occurence with athletes Konate's size who are fast twitch, is that they get a lot of muscle injuries. Hamstrings in particular are vulnerable. Given that he plays in the toughest league in the world, and has been playing regular top flight and international football for 4-5 (?) years as a CB already, it's no wonder he has had injuries. He has had to be matched carefully, which is what you would expect of a young CB in a tough (Bundesliga) and even tougher (PL) league. Having Gomez and Qansah to rotate him with this year has been nice, next year and the year after he should be entering the prime years as a CB. Fair to say we might expect more from him then.

 

As a comparison Virgil was playing for Utrecth and Celtic at the same time as Konate has racked up appearances in the BL and PL (and national team). In my view the ever more money-driven football industry, the type of career path Virgil has had is more and more unlikely to occur unfortunately. Players are given much too big a workload too early as everyone wants to put their big talents in the shop-window, and with results being more and more important at all levels of the game, players are the ones suffering by playing way too much too early. I have no doubts the reason Virgil and Salah have been going for as long as they have without major injuries is that their minutes were managed more sensibly at the start of their careers. We've seen this movie before as Liverpool supporters, Gomez, Martin Kelly among the defenders, and Fowler, Owen, Torres among the forwards. All had their careers cut short (hopefully not so much Gomez) cut short and decimated by injuries due to the club putting them through too many matches too early.

 

Just as an aside, wonder what would be the reaction to another assault to Virgil's knees like the one Konate was on the receiving end of on Tuesday.

 

 

 

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Is he playing with a trapped nerve in his neck?

 

I don't think he even looked to the right today, never mind passing the ball that way when Bradley was in acres of space.  Instead, he kept playing short passes infield, into an over-crowded midfield; y'know, because that tactic was such a fucking runaway success on Thursday.

[Red Phoenix]

That's 3 full games now, hopefully he's ok for the next too. With our defence looking more sorted out maybe we can focus more on attack and try to work out how to get scoring goals again.

[TheBitch]

Seems somewhat ironic that our first clean sheet in about 15 games and I thought he was shit last night, so slow and ponderous to bring it out and pass it forward. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

10 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

That's 3 full games now, hopefully he's ok for the next too. With our defence looking more sorted out maybe we can focus more on attack and try to work out how to get scoring goals again.

He even played a few passes to the right last night.  If he'd tried that at all (to Elliott v Atalanta and Bradley v Palace) we might be in a significantly different position now.