Feel for the geezer, but he’s only capable of non-league/retirement now…
how much of it is mental, I don’t know, as every time he gets tackled/goes down he grimaces and rolls around.
certainly one of many who shouldn’t be anywhere near us next season
Don't people pull muscles in non league?
More the fact that it’s low stakes and pay-as-you-play stuff. No chance he should be in league football if he can’t complete more than 5 games a season
He just got kicked didn't he? Hopefully not too bad as when he plays he is still our most effective forward
The fact he is our most effective forward shows what a poor forward line we have.
Nope it shows why he's at this level, he's a good forward with a shit injury record.
He’s clearly a very talented player. But at the end of the day if we are looking at the most important metric for a striker, the amount of goals they score, his overall contribution is a goal every 3.9 games.
Which is probably a little below an average return for an average striker at this level.
Yes he might score those goals in less minutes than many. But to me that does not really matter, and I’ve never really got the super sub thing, and feel like it’s a bit of a fallacy - because you don’t see good teams having a player whose role is basically to be one.
Very frustrating. Seemed before he left us for Birmingham that we’d figured out how to keep him fit enough for very effective 15 to 30 minute cameos. Whatever was working then, it’s been lost now. There’s still a good player in there and he showed again in flashes today how he is a handful even for good defences, but I think his time might be up, sadly.
It upsets me, the relish with which some people seem to almost enjoy being able to talk about him being injured again and the way others blame and shame Aneke like he’s choosing to be this way. Very sad to see him keeping breaking down like this and you could see the frustration on his face as he lay injured on the ground again. I feel for him.
Sad for him. Looked like a proper hamstring tear the way he went down and stayed down. Please just take a hit and pay off his contract. Take the money and retire now Chuks, your body simply can’t handle professional sport.
There was a sense of inevitability about his injury today, no offence to him but it’s almost comical now that we come to expect it. It’s time to agree a contract termination, no hard feelings to the guy but for the club to move forward he needs to be gone, it’s clear there’s no long term future for him.
Pay up his contract and move on. He needs it, the club needs it.
Either this or somehow find a club to take a gamble on him as part of a loan where we pay some of his wages.
After a while, the sympathy abates and you find yourself resenting the fact he’s being paid a decent wedge whilst our team languishes in utter mediocrity. I can’t help it, just how I feel and I think the thing that’s contributed to this is the hype some of our fans have given him.
Statements like ‘on his day he’s unplayable’. It’s actually ridiculously ott given his time here. If he was in the same bracket as Kermorgant, Taylor or Mendonca I might give you that. In reality, even during is purple patch in 19/20 (if you can call it that), it wasn’t all that.
Now it’s “Chuks coming on for 20 minutes is still something we can use/something in our locker’
he can’t even do that. Stop flogging a dead horse. It’s done
Holden said he looked like he had “pulled” his hamstring but he looked in serious pain. And I was just starting to think he was looking like the old Aneke, a goal coming any second…
Pay up his contract and move on. He needs it, the club needs it.
Either this or somehow find a club to take a gamble on him as part of a loan where we pay some of his wages.
After a while, the sympathy abates and you find yourself resenting the fact he’s being paid a decent wedge whilst our team languishes in utter mediocrity. I can’t help it, just how I feel and I think the thing that’s contributed to this is the hype some of our fans have given him.
Statements like ‘on his day he’s unplayable’. It’s actually ridiculously ott given his time here. If he was in the same bracket as Kermorgant, Taylor or Mendonca I might give you that. In reality, even during is purple patch in 19/20 (if you can call it that), it wasn’t all that.
Now it’s “Chuks coming on for 20 minutes is still something we can use/something in our locker’
he can’t even do that. Stop flogging a dead horse. It’s done
Precisely. When I heard today that he'd gone off injured, I just laughed.
It's sad for him, I don't mean to be nasty, but for us as fans it's just a joke.
He's turning 30 this year. He's got to be thinking about calling it a day. I know it'd be hard to turn down two years more money, but that's also two years more incessant injuries. I wouldn't fancy that, to be honest. I'd like to think that I'd value my mental and physical health more than the cash.
Had the pleasure of meeting Chuks last year and spent some time chatting with him.
Genuinely nice bloke with his heart in the right place. It’s a shame to see this happening to him time and time again.
I do have sympathy because I suspect it’s the sort of thing that he’s clearly more prone to than most other players - and it’s not as if he doesn’t want to play every week.
It must be excruciating to have the opportunity to be a professional footballer but yet always have this get in the way of truly being able to realise his full potential. We all know how talented he is.
Anyone giving him abuse for what’s happening needs to have a look at themselves. The bloke’s livelihood is on the line.
On a serious note it’s very frustrating for us as fans, but it must be soul destroying for him. We obviously don’t know the full ins and out of his injuries and treatment and neither really do we have a right to know. I do think we have probably got to the point now where he needs to get new expert medical opinion on his issues and the likely treatment and trajectory of them and the risks of any long term damage to his body.
Having recently read the thread on here about Olly Lee’s premature retirement. it is a reminder that certain things can’t really be overcome to compete as a professional athlete. Obviously from Aneke’s point of view he has the protection of a long contract and the club chose to give him that. But if it does transpire that hanging up his boots needs to happen then perhaps the club could help him find a new career that suits him and support him with this and maybe do a deal regarding the contract in releasing him early to pursue this for some kind of reduction in his remuneration.
When he bent down in front of the East to do his boot up I joked he’d be out for 2 months with a broken shoelace.
I really feel for the guy, this must be hell. I genuinely think he needs to consider a career outside of football. He doesn’t strike me as the type to not give a shit and just pick up his wages. I bet his mental health is on the floor. It can’t do him any good just being so brittle and injured all the time.
No idea if he's interested in it but maybe we could give him a coaching role for the rest of his contract. Can't be easy for him to keep missing matches
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Which is probably a little below an average return for an average striker at this level.
Yes he might score those goals in less minutes than many. But to me that does not really matter, and I’ve never really got the super sub thing, and feel like it’s a bit of a fallacy - because you don’t see good teams having a player whose role is basically to be one.
may as well terminate his contract in the summer and create space in the squad.
Get a player on lower wages.
Assuming TS is gone by then.
Oh well, at least we have Bonne to fall back on.
Season over? Looked a serious injury.
I’ve no idea what we do with Aneke, but it’s just a farce
Statements like ‘on his day he’s unplayable’. It’s actually ridiculously ott given his time here. If he was in the same bracket as Kermorgant, Taylor or Mendonca I might give you that. In reality, even during is purple patch in 19/20 (if you can call it that), it wasn’t all that.
he can’t even do that. Stop flogging a dead horse. It’s done
It's sad for him, I don't mean to be nasty, but for us as fans it's just a joke.
Genuinely nice bloke with his heart in the right place. It’s a shame to see this happening to him time and time again.
Having recently read the thread on here about Olly Lee’s premature retirement. it is a reminder that certain things can’t really be overcome to compete as a professional athlete. Obviously from Aneke’s point of view he has the protection of a long contract and the club chose to give him that. But if it does transpire that hanging up his boots needs to happen then perhaps the club could help him find a new career that suits him and support him with this and maybe do a deal regarding the contract in releasing him early to pursue this for some kind of reduction in his remuneration.
I really feel for the guy, this must be hell. I genuinely think he needs to consider a career outside of football. He doesn’t strike me as the type to not give a shit and just pick up his wages. I bet his mental health is on the floor. It can’t do him any good just being so brittle and injured all the time.