Abou Diaby - Injuries Thread

[clockender1]

diaby played 45mins for the academy team v west ham. came off at half time.

last time he played a full season was 2009/2010.

[OneBardGooner]

Arsenal even brought in the medical team that rebuilt steve austin and even they gave up!

[northbank123]

He hasn't been on ANY the squad lists , is he injured again by any chance ?

He played @ B. Wood than ?????????

If he is fit Wenger will put him in the squad. They're obviously too embarrassed to bother telling everyone he's injured again.

[VAVAVOOM 14]

diaby played 45mins for the academy team v west ham. came off at half time.

Did he come off by design or did he get injured?

[clockender1]

diaby played 45mins for the academy team v west ham. came off at half time.

Did he come off by design or did he get injured?

they did not say, but i think you can guess.

[dPmunky]

diaby played 45mins for the academy team v west ham. came off at half time.

last time he played a full season was 2009/2010.

when you put it like this.....you almost get the feeling he's a broken human being not just a broken footballer

[OneBardGooner]

He's a Medical Mystery that's what he is.

To even have a modicum of talent and have one's career blighted by injuries is bad enough...and I recall Diaby showing tremendous promise when he first came into the team - at least until that moronic *word censored* dan smith broke Diaby's ankle with an utterly foolish and unnecessary challenge in the final minutes of the game against sunderland.

He has since shown moments of excellence when he has been fit - his opening goal against Derby when we whooped them 5 - 0 comes to mind....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JHHeKvyYsI

Many fans and pundits were thinking he might be the one to replace PV4 - but of course that never materialised...I do feel sorry for him in one way .....Also had he come good we might not have been crying out all these years for the Holding M-Fielder which wenger has failed to find/ buy since Gilberto left.

[SteveO 35]

Peanut head's contract is up at the end of season

You're a bigger self harmer than There's Only One

[clockender1]

diaby played 45mins for the academy team v west ham. came off at half time.

last time he played a full season was 2009/2010.

when you put it like this.....you almost get the feeling he's a broken human being not just a broken footballer

i think he is - his frame is too big and heavy for those small shins and little knees. its like fat people are always complaining about their feet...

i do feel sorry for him, but really he should have been cut in 2012.

[northbank123]

Wenger said years ago that his problem is that his muscle fibres are completely fucked and his muscles aren't able to cope with the demands of PL football.

Wenger panicked after Flamini left and started throwing long-term lucrative deals at all and sundry. The problem with Diaby isn't that Wenger has shown a ridiculous amount of loyalty, it was that he gave him a 5 and a half year deal in the first place. As far as I can see anyway, if he has signed a contract since Jan 2010 please correct me.

[VAVAVOOM 14]

Wenger said years ago that his problem is that his muscle fibres are completely fucked and his muscles aren't able to cope with the demands of PL football.

Makes you wonder why we didn't get shot of him years ago, then?

[Nos89]

Wenger said years ago that his problem is that his muscle fibres are completely fucked and his muscles aren't able to cope with the demands of PL football.

Wenger panicked after Flamini left and started throwing long-term lucrative deals at all and sundry. The problem with Diaby isn't that Wenger has shown a ridiculous amount of loyalty, it was that he gave him a 5 and a half year deal in the first place. As far as I can see anyway, if he has signed a contract since Jan 2010 please correct me.

You've highlighted the problem, Wenger knows yet did nothing to find a variation in training methods to help Abou become stronger and less injury prone...its like buying a Ferrari and attaching a caravan to it....it just won't run as efficiently as you'd expect. He may be a multi millionaire but a career unfulfilled leaves you to become an embittered TV pundit....

[Blade]

"club’s youth academy director Yves Henri Gergard described him as a “fairly quiet and frail individual.”

Ominous.

[augie]

I'm still at a loss as to how he can remain at the club on the back of 1 serious injury If you look at a list of his injuries, most have nothing at all to do with dan smiths tackle

[clockender1]

I'm still at a loss as to how he can remain at the club on the back of 1 serious injury If you look at a list of his injuries, most have nothing at all to do with dan smiths tackle

11 calf strains on the same leg have nothing to with a tackle. the guy is physically frail as said above.

no point in having talent if you can't use it - you see it all the time in sport, repeated shoulder injuries, or knees or hips. and athletes retire and move on.

i kind of feel sorry for him, because the club has strung him along with the hope and promise of a return - in fact only a week or too ago he said he wasn't worried because he's only 29 and he's got 4/5 years left....

overlooking that he missed from ages 25-29 when he should have been at his prime strength, fitness etc. its only downhill from here.

they would have been kinder to have released him in 2011 or 2012 and let him move on and find another career.

sad all round imho.