I liked Erik Lamela before it was cool

[Jurgen the German]

I miss lamela too, but let's not place too much emphasis on what one individual could do for this team. We've said the same things when we've been without Kane and dembele. We've done well without all of them. We need a team functioning well, obviously, a single player won't make the difference in that regard. Doesn't matter if lamela is eager and run around a lot if the other 10 doesn't.

Not to mention he's probably our 7th or 8th best player so it's not like he's our most important player. Will be good to have him back all the same.

 

[Gilzeantoscore]

Does anybody still seriously think he's out due a hip injury?

 

[Baleforce]

Does anybody still seriously think he's out due a hip injury?

I do

 

[Gilzeantoscore]

I do

Why? He hasn't even been seen at training.

 

[FatBloke]

Unless its HRT

Tits.

 

[Baleforce]

Why? He hasn't even been seen at training.

I think that's because he has a hip injury and he's probably training in a pool or something like King always used to do

there isn't any available evidence to suggest it's anything else

 

[scaramanga]

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Your source appears to be someone who tweets about Spurs sometimes.

 

[Gilzeantoscore]

I think that's because he has a hip injury and he's probably training in a pool or something like King always used to do

there isn't any available evidence to suggest it's anything else

A pretty major injury then, to not even be running this late in the piece and why all the secrecy? The club were very open about Rose and Vertonghen et al.

 

[glasgowspur]

Write something on social media, put true at the end of it, it's now a fact.
Any wonder the world is so fudged up.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Does anybody still seriously think he's out due a hip injury?

I'm trying to believe it.

Thinking back to when he disappeared previously (when Sherwood was in charge), that was due to a back problem (?). Both back and hip problems are pretty non-descript and usually hard to factually diagnose, because often they result from a bio-mechanical dysfunction or mis-alignment compounded/aggravated by repetitive use and intense training/activity rather than a single event.

They can take time to correct BUT we have got a wealth of experts at out disposal (Dembele must have a hip man on the go, for instance).

Not that you can always tell but Lamela never looked anything but free flowing the way he'd speed around like a gazelle.

And perhaps due to the 'choice' of the type of injury...I think (and is only my opinion) that there is something else going on. Poch is being patient BUT we have always shown Lamela a lot of patience. If there are other reasons then they must be genuine/acceptable otherwise Poch would have black balled him by now.

 

[Grays_1890]

Your source appears to be someone who tweets about Spurs sometimes.

I was not using that as a source, just shared as it was back in 2014 so not a reaction to recent rumours. So happens I know whats going on but a social media forum is not the place

 

[JerusalemMan]

I was not using that as a source, just shared as it was back in 2014 so not a reaction to recent rumours. So happens I know whats going on but a social media forum is not the place

It's perfectly ok to say he's got a hip injury here.

 

[glasgowspur]

I was not using that as a source, just shared as it was back in 2014 so not a reaction to recent rumours. So happens I know whats going on but a social media forum is not the place

If there was any truth in that 3 years ago then I'm pretty sure DL and poch would have moved him on by now. It's not as if other clubs having been sniffing (sorry) around him.

 

[scaramanga]

I was not using that as a source, just shared as it was back in 2014 so not a reaction to recent rumours. So happens I know whats going on but a social media forum is not the place

How fudging dare you!?

This is a discussion forum - the likes of which have been around since ancient Greece. It is not social media.

 

[Grays_1890]

I actually should not have posted that actually, thinking about it, apologies

 

[scaramanga]

I actually should not have posted that actually, thinking about it, apologies

Only pulling your leg.

If old farts like most of us use it, it's a discussion forum, if dumb kids use it it's social media!

 

[Gilzeantoscore]

I was not using that as a source, just shared as it was back in 2014 so not a reaction to recent rumours. So happens I know whats going on but a social media forum is not the place

Depression?

 

[glasgowspur]

Chiches gimp?

 

[scaramanga]

Chiches gimp?

Swellsy's ladyboy?

 

[the dza]

Maybe he's injured AND depressed, so the club let him have time away.