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Dejan Kulusevski

harr1984 said:
We've seen how cautious the medical team/RDZ are being with returning players. For a player that's been out for about a decade I think it's fanciful to see him getting real minutes for quite some time....
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And even if he gets minutes, to expect him to be the same player or the player that many are wishing for him to be is fanciful imo. It will take him a long time. I imagine the mental load will be hard enough; the idea that any extra exertion, going into a 50/50 or anything like that could potentially lead to another injury is enough to make him play within himself for a while.
 
I think there is a simple equation here actually. The more of these players that we have available to form the 20 man match day squad the better it is for the returning players.

Take the last game. We started with Udogie, Tel, Savio, Marmoush and Gallagher. We finished with Robbo, Mudryk, Kudus, Solanke and Fernandez. Out of those 10 players it's probably fair to say that Robbo, Tel and Gallagher were the ones that were injury free and 100% match fit. So in the match situation, none of them were put into the red zone. They shared the minutes and they are all good players.

Now when you add back Kulu and Madds to the equation, the options to integrate them only add value to the overall picture. Eventually we have way more than 3 out of 12 players injury free and match fit.

It will be interesting to see how many of our attacking players ever complete 90 mins.
 
Raziel said:
Might be 10-15 minutes to see reaction, and gauge reaction over the international break (might be best option)
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Possibly, but I was thinking there may be some behind closed doors matches arranged that we will never officially know about to keep the players not called up ticking over. It just seems logical to me to ease him back in that manner, or a u21 appearance or two.
 
harr1984 said:
We've seen how cautious the medical team/RDZ are being with returning players. For a player that's been out for about a decade I think it's fanciful to see him getting real minutes for quite some time....
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This.

After nearly 18 months without being able to train properly I’d be surprised if Deki is able to make a cameo this month and even if he doesn’t suffer a reaction (which is highly likely as his body adjusts to such serious injury) he probably won’t be ready to start a game until Christmas time.

Rodri took a full season to regain his sharpness following 9 months on sidelines, so even if things go smoothly we won’t be seeing Deki back in his pomp until next season; probably around the same time as Xavi is back to his best.

Have to hope that Maddison is able to fill that creativity void at #10 until January at least.
 
I hope he's back soon.

The area he sits is behind me in the West Stand. I get really tinkled off with people trying to get selfies with him during games, basically trying move me out of the way while I'm trying to watch a match.
 
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