2024/25 Jake O'Brien

[Papa Shango]

Yes look how many games Keane played and Branthwaite kept on the subs bench.

Branthwaite is obviously struggling with something hence him being injured again.

Dyche is a lot of things but he is generally pretty good with players fitness.

 

[EFCPaul]

I was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (spoke about it a bit in the mental health thread). Other than the age difference, my experience leading up to the diagnosis was the same. Knowing there is definitely something up with you physically but no clue what it could be, not until you finally force yourself to the doctors.

How many other PL players are type 1? There's bound to be a few, but I can't think of anyone else who is open about it. 100% it limits you, even if you're really, really fit otherwise. I doubt it's the main reason Dyche has barely used him, but it certainly won't be helping his cause. You can just physically crash and quite suddenly.

 

[Timbucktoo]

I was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (spoke about it a bit in the mental health thread). Other than the age difference, my experience leading up to the diagnosis was the same. Knowing there is definitely something up with you physically but no clue what it could be, not until you finally force yourself to the doctors.

How many other PL players are type 1? There's bound to be a few, but I can't think of anyone else who is open about it. 100% it limits you, even if you're really, really fit otherwise. I doubt it's the main reason Dyche has barely used him, but it certainly won't be helping his cause. You can just physically crash and quite suddenly.

Wouldn`t this have been known before we signed him? Its the point of having a medical before a deal is finalized.

 

[Vintage]

Would love to see him in a back 3 with Tarkowski and Branthwaithe. Think they would be very balanced as a back 3. Unfortunately don't have the full / wing backs to even be able to contemplate that formation

 

[GoldenToffee]

I have absolutely no idea if he's a good player or not as the manager simply refuses to use him even off the bench when we're 2-0 with minutes to go in home games. One of the most baffling things I've seen in years is the manager's decision not to use his new £15m signing at all when he's been fully fit all season, our best player has been injured all season and we conceded 13 goals in the opening 4 games.

 

[roy vernon]

I was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (spoke about it a bit in the mental health thread). Other than the age difference, my experience leading up to the diagnosis was the same. Knowing there is definitely something up with you physically but no clue what it could be, not until you finally force yourself to the doctors.

How many other PL players are type 1? There's bound to be a few, but I can't think of anyone else who is open about it. 100% it limits you, even if you're really, really fit otherwise. I doubt it's the main reason Dyche has barely used him, but it certainly won't be helping his cause. You can just physically crash and quite suddenly.

Gary Mabbut, the old Spurs and England midfielder was a diabetic and was very open about it. He wanted to show that, properly managed, diabetes was not something which had to stop you living an active life. He had a point because he played over 600 games for Spurs. He famously appeared on Blue Peter demonstrating how he injected insulin, to raise awareness of the condition.

 

[Marius57]

Branthwaite is obviously struggling with something hence him being injured again.

Dyche is a lot of things but he is generally pretty good with players fitness.

Tarks and Myko both been playing through injury this season. And they’ve looked terrible for it.

 

[Dublin blue 75]

Would agree with this.

Only surprise is I thought maybe he'd be ahead of Keane - but not at all surprised he's not, really.

It was widely known he was a recruitment team signing, and I always felt it was Textor shenanigans.

This specific recruitment case demonstrates there is a very wide divide between the DOF/recruitment team and the manager.

Further, it showcases the manager doing things his way (and knowing nobody can stop him at present) and the impotence of the DOF in terms of his having an absence of owner / board / leadership air cover to enable any change. In reality both likely need to be moved on (the manager more urgently) so get on with closing the deal Friedkin.

 

[RD2910]

I have absolutely no idea if he's a good player or not as the manager simply refuses to use him even off the bench when we're 2-0 with minutes to go in home games. One of the most baffling things I've seen in years is the manager's decision not to use his new £15m signing at all when he's been fully fit all season, our best player has been injured all season and we conceded 13 goals in the opening 4 games.

Chance would be a fine thing.

 

[Caolam]

I can’t believe the DoF is buying players with no input from the manager. Surely Dyche would have had some say in the signing of O’Brien, though this being Everton I wouldn’t want to bet my house on it. However spending £15 million on a player who can’t get into a team which has played like we have played this season would appear to be a monumental mistake. I thought that we had hit a low point when we were bringing in injured players who couldn’t play for months, or in Deli Ali’s case couldn’t play at all, but shelling out £15 million for a player who the manager won’t allow near the team is the most Moshiri thing we have done.

 

[heatmeiser]

Wouldn`t this have been known before we signed him? Its the point of having a medical before a deal is finalized.

Of course it will and it will be fully managed by medical professionals. He won't suddenly need a Mars bar after 30 minutes of playing

 

[Papa Shango]

Tarks and Myko both been playing through injury this season. And they’ve looked terrible for it.

We assume Tarkowski is playing through an injury mainly because he has been a bit off.

Mykolenko is a bit meh at the best of times. It's mad we still don't have proper cover for him.

 

[Simon Buttle]

We assume Tarkowski is playing through an injury mainly because he has been a bit off.

Mykolenko is a bit meh at the best of times. It's mad we still don't have proper cover for him.

Yeah its a huge black mark against Thelwell alongside the lack of an actual right sided midfielder rather than the left sided ones we keep shoehorning there at the moment.

 

[whiteshadow]

I have absolutely no idea if he's a good player or not as the manager simply refuses to use him even off the bench when we're 2-0 with minutes to go in home games. One of the most baffling things I've seen in years is the manager's decision not to use his new £15m signing at all when he's been fully fit all season, our best player has been injured all season and we conceded 13 goals in the opening 4 games.

Has to be a Thelwell signing that Dyche is refusing to play to show he’s in charge.

 

[Papa Shango]

Yeah its a huge black mark against Thelwell alongside the lack of an actual right sided midfielder rather than the left sided ones we keep shoehorning there at the moment.

Theoretically Young is the back up. The issue is more with the lack of money (or spending power anyway) that we had.

The lack of youth players who can step up and fill in annoys me more. Its been like this for years, other clubs will throw in a young prospect in an injury crisis. They don't even have to be great, a Jonjoe Kenny level player would do to plugs the gaps in the meantime.