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Toby Alderweireld

Modric THFC said:
http://www.espnfc.com/tottenham-hot...toby-alderweireld-injury-was-one-in-a-million

"It was an unusual injury, one in a million. It almost never happens in football," Alderweireld said. "I got a hard knock on the nerve on the right side of my knee, so the nerve was shut down. All of my leg was shut down.

"When that happens, it takes a long time to 'restart' the nerve again, so it wasn't an injury you could put a time limit on. If you pull a hamstring, you will probably be out for four-to-six weeks. With a nerve, you don't know.

"My leg didn't work and I had to start all over again. The nature of the problem also meant that for a while, my foot didn't work properly, so I had do as much recovery work as possible without using my foot.

"I could walk, but not as I normally would, because it was difficult to lift up my foot. It was difficult for the medical staff to put a time on my recovery because we didn't know. It could have been two weeks, six weeks, maybe three months more.

"We just had to do everything we could to stimulate the nerve and ensure I could come back as quickly as possible. It was very frustrating, but I had to use the frustration to work as hard as possible and be ready to come back."
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That's a weird injury. I don't recall ever hearing anything quite like that before.
 
Robbo said:
Bound to happen to a Spurs player though.
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Charing Cross Hospital should just have specialists in attendance at every Spurs game - they'd see a lot more freakishly unlikely medical complications over the course of a season than if they spent decades searching the breadth of England for medical outliers.
 
Rorschach said:
That's a weird injury. I don't recall ever hearing anything quite like that before.
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Do you remember when Ziege got a knock on his thigh... next thing you know he has an internal bleed on his muscle, compartment syndrome, had to have his thigh sliced open and never recovered :(

That reminded me of Calum Davenport. Classy.
 
Bullet said:
Do you remember when Ziege got a knock on his thigh... next thing you know he has an internal bleed on his muscle, compartment syndrome, had to have his thigh sliced open and never recovered :(
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Actually I didn't know all that stuff. I guess they just put him down at the end. Poor bugger.
 
Is there a more important player for us? With Toby playingthe team is elevated. He's not an in your face player, but its the many small things he does that takes the team to a different level when he plays.

From his psychology, determination, galvanising the defence, passion for clean sheets, sneaky play, immense technical quality, passing, reading of the game, ability to score...for me with this youngish team Toby is very important.
 
SpurMeUp said:
Is there a more important player for us? With Toby playingthe team is elevated. He's not an in your face player, but its the many small things he does that takes the team to a different level when he plays.

From his psychology, determination, galvanising the defence, passion for clean sheets, sneaky play, immense technical quality, passing, reading of the game, ability to score...for me with this youngish team Toby is very important.
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He's the one player in our squad that would walk into every other side in the league no questions asked.
 
With Toby is it that he's come to the right club for him? Obviously Ath Madrid didn't fancy him and he never stood out for me when I saw him at Southampton.
 
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