Herbie Kane injury?

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  1. tho

    thomasevans Well-Known Member

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    I am not accusing anyone here, but just suppose that Oxford United desperately wanted to be able to add Herbie to their squad on a permanent basis next season, but knowing that we will probably want him back and he has two years left on his contract. The injury and its seriousness has not been specified, so we have no idea, other than hearsay, how bad the injury is. However, just suppose that our board is gullible enough to believe this and agree that any injury might reduce the transfer value of the player, so that, say, £350k would buy a player worth over a million, that would possibly be a good move. Just suppose that our board thought that they should get shut in the case that Herbie has this injury. Might it then be seen as a clever move by Oxford to get on the cheap a player they could not otherwise afford, but whose value they know very well? What we should do is to recall Herbie - well, we will have already done so, because his season at Oxford is over as they are not in the play-offs. We should be doing our own injury assessment straight away to establish the seriousness. If it is potentially not as serious as Oxford are hinting, but not confirming, we would have seen through what might have been a clever ploy. Of course, I wouldn't dream of another club in our same league doing such a thing, but the thought crossed my mind in a devious moment.
     
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    Tyke The Tree-Frog Well-Known Member

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    Fantastic conspiracy, I'll give you that :p:D But our own medical team will be monitoring him, more than likely on a weekly basis at the minute
     
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    I think as his parent club we are perfectly entitled to know about the injury, recovery time etc etc. I'm sure our club Dr and physio will speak to him!
     
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    If our medical team didn't correctly assess our own players, I'd be horrified. It would be a layer of negligence I wouldn't expect.
     
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    I think our Head Physio Vikki Stevens is a top professional and questions over her abilities in a situation like the one quoted is both laughable and pathetic.
     
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    Who did Oulare's medical?
     
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  7. Tyke The Tree-Frog

    Tyke The Tree-Frog Well-Known Member

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    It's not my place to defend him, or if I am wrong, put words in his mouth. But I genuinely don't think Vikki & the medical staff was even a thought in his mind, buddy. I believe he just meant it as a slight at the board, and didn't even consider our own looking after Herbie

    I think we're extremely lucky we had Vikki to take the place of Sedgwick, and she thoroughly deserves it. Hope she stays for many a year
     
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    I assume he was signed in a panic by our lovely owners. However, I would expect in the light of very public news about a "horrible injury" to one of our own registered players to register somewhere on our medical team's radar, before we agreed to an outward cheap sale. Unless we were even more useless than we thought.
     
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    To be fair, we should have known about Oulare's injury record before we even signed him - it's not as though it was just a couple of niggles. He's been injured the majority of his footballing life! Absolutely shocking bit of business
     
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    Oh, that's agreed. I'm not excusing it. He had't played for 6 months. I think the owners knew tbh. Just keeping the fans quiet with something, anything.
     
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    Even some of those are getting a bit ridiculous now.
     
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    I'm in agreement with you mate. The one last month about it being the board covering the 'saved us' bit of the Preedy/Cryne flag had me in stitches.
     
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    Oulares agent/bank manager.
     
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    He will be seen by our medical staff and physios,he will have scans and x-rays where necessary. He is an employee of the club and they have a duty of care to him. With loan players the medical care is the duty of the owning club. The idea of a conspiracy to deceive and defraud is not possible, even in the UK.
     
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    Worth over a million?

    Nice one.
     
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    We signed a bloke once with two broken legs, another with a hole in his knee and an Egyptian the size of one of their pyramids.
     
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    Pretty please, there absolutely NO criticism intended of our wonderful staff. I am just wondering about the timing of the announcement from Oxford of Herbie's 'injury.' That's all. It's not in Oxford's interest, as he will have now returned to us contractually. Come on, though, don't you like fantastic conspiracies? There is not a lot else to do now that we have completed this season of discontent.
     
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    No, I don't like conspiracy theories. As I was explaining to the fairies in our garden this morning, they'll be claiming our Prime Minister and his sycophants aren't liars next. They agreed, but the ghost of the grey lady in our attic doesn't. Then again, she doesn't believe man has landed on the moon.
    :D:D
     
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    No, he got injured against Rotherham when Oxford still needed him , nothing suspicious here, footballers get injured, let's hope he recovers well
     
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    Chortle... hasn’t this post escaped from the season of sarcasm thread?....:p
     
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