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Apart from that you've made some excellent points there. |
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If we could guarantee he'd play 45 games a season then i'd say yeah deffo hang onto him, but the fact is he's 30 years old, constantly gets injured and if we're looking to move away from this policy of signing older players on big money then we need to be smart. |
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Wan Malacia Varane Shaw Casemiro Mount Eriksen Martial Donny Sancho + Who struggle to get to 30 games (50% in a busy season) they want shifting |
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I’d still not be worried if he went though, class as he is he just can’t stay fit and a settled CB pairing is one of the few things that has been as true now as it was since I started watching the game 35 years ago. |
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Not sure we are “letting him go”. If we take up the option on his contract we are stuck with his current wages. Presume they will try and keep him, but on a sensible reduced salary bearing in mind his age and fitness record. If he agrees it’s good business. If he doesn’t, no-one should cry. Nothing to get excited about.
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Raphael Varane has opened up on suffering concussions in multiple football matches and how his body has been “damaged” by heading during fixtures.
In an interview with L’Equipe, Varane outlined specific incidents of suffering concussions during fixtures for France and Real Madrid, and the impact this had on his performance in subsequent matches. The 30-year-old said how he suffered a concussion during France’s 2014 World Cup last-16 clash against Nigeria after the football struck his temple, claiming that he played the rest of the match on “autopilot” mode. “If someone had spoken to me at that time, I don’t even know if I would have been able to respond,” Varane recalled. “I don’t remember the game after this incident.” He explained how he lost appetite, was dehydrated and lost weight — but these symptoms were not enough to stop him from wanting to play against Germany in the quarter-final. Varane said he did not feel at full capacity for the game, which France lost 1-0, but explained he had not spoken publicly about the experience for a decade as he did not want it to “sound like an excuse”. He added: “What we will never know is what would have happened if I had taken another impact to the head. When you know that repeated concussions have a potentially fatal effect…well, at the time, I wasn’t a family man. But today, I have three children and I think differently.” Varane described a similar incident six years later, when he was substituted off for Real Madrid in a La Liga match against Getafe after taking a ball to head, and suffering extreme fatigue for several days after. His next match was against Manchester City in the return leg of a last-16 Champions League tie. The central defender explained after not feeling well in the warm-up, he then “felt like a spectator” during the game. He suffered an off-night, making mistakes in the build-up to two goals in a 2-1 loss. Towards the end of the following season he missed crucial La Liga and Copa Del Rey fixtures after complaining to club doctors of dizzy spells which continued to affect him during pre-season. He signed for Manchester United later that summer. Varane said he had not been made aware of micro-concussions — incremental head impacts that lead to concussions — until this season, when Manchester United players were advised not to head the ball on more than 10 occasions during training sessions. However, this caution cannot be replicated in live match situations. Varane acknowledged “saying you feel tired” following repeated head actions can still carry a stigma. |
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