2020/21 James Rodriguez

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LinekersLegs said:
I remember being intensely frustrated that James McCarthy kept on playing for his national team when he was half fit and then having to miss several Everton games because he had aggravated his injury.
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Martinez gets a lot of stick for playing him while injured and "ruining McCarthy" but your post is spot on.
 
ToffeeTim said:
Carlo says ignore the rumours, James is committed.

I hope he is right, but I'm not totally convinced. Time will tell.
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If he turns out v man city then i get it. Sheff utd wolves and city is 3 games in 7 days. At no point when we signed him did i think his body can handle that. Thats how we got him.
If he doesnt turn out v city. Then it throws up a question mark.
 

Curtis said:
I wonder if the strife in Colombia has affected his headspace? I know he's very committed to his homeland. Fatigue can be mental too. As an American the upheaval here has affected me.
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People dont have much sympathy for mental health of footballers, but I totally agree that this might be an issue, and same for Richy too. Being away from home, when your country is suffering so much must be hard. Normally they would have friends and family around them, or be back home with their people more frequently.
 
Sassy Colombian said:
I agree no manager in world football is to prevent his players from participating with their national team but Ancelotti could have been a bit more sober with his statement. He could have said something like our expectations is that Colombia’s National federation make the best decision for the player and don’t risk playing him if his calf continues to bother him.
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Which would be basically the same as saying a player wouldn't be available for the next match. It's empty promises.

Fact is, it's extremely poor that he didn't even bother turning up for the first time fans were allowed in the stadium. Even if he really WAS injured, how much would it hurt to simply walk the fn lap of Goodison?

I've never gotten a name on any shirt, I got the amber one for my birthday a month ago. Guy is magic but that's a complete joke of an attitude towards people that absolutely want to see him play. I absolutely cannot how we, as a club, would allow a player to pick and choose when he plays because that's exactly what we are doing.
 
artetas_biggest_fan said:
The upheaval there is going to last a long time mate. Non whites have been traumatised on that landmass for 400 years, from the treatment of the subhuman Native people (“savages”) onward. The upheaval is just beginning as the white dominated narrative is ending.

There’s a degree of similarity here (Northern Ireland), except the issue here is religion. I am definitely affected as is everyone that lives here, and it’s most noticeable when I travel to southern Ireland where people are far less confrontational. As a Catholic I didn’t knowingly speak to a Protestant for 18 years. We live(d) in ghettos. This place was created as “a Protestant state for a Protestant people”.
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I know a lad who had to travel from the south to do specialist work in the H&W shipyards
He had to have a 2 man security team with him at all times and was picked from his hotel every day. He could not drive a southern reg car on to the site
Years ago this but it had to effect the people that lived there
Those of us that live in “normal conditions “ have no idea what it’s like to live or have friends and family living under bad conditions
 

riddick said:
Which would be basically the same as saying a player wouldn't be available for the next match. It's empty promises.

Fact is, it's extremely poor that he didn't even bother turning up for the first time fans were allowed in the stadium. Even if he really WAS injured, how much would it hurt to simply walk the fn lap of Goodison?

I've never gotten a name on any shirt, I got the amber one for my birthday a month ago. Guy is magic but that's a complete joke of an attitude towards people that absolutely want to see him play. I absolutely cannot how we, as a club, would allow a player to pick and choose when he plays because that's exactly what we are doing.
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Tbf I think any player in the matchday squad didn't actually walk the lap. They didn't have any family members with them etc - it's probably all COVID regs.

That being said, it would have been nice for him to be at the ground in the stands or I'd have just had him on the bench and said if needed you're going to play 5-10 mins, if not you're gonna be there to greet the fans.

We don't know if we're letting him pick and choose when he plays. I posted the stats in here earlier but he's played more minutes this season than he has in all but three seasons since he moved to Monaco in 2013 (17-18 at Bayern, 13-14 at Monaco and 14-15 at Madrid).

He's played 2045 minutes this season, last season he played 728.
 
We've got a brilliant player on our hands.

Let's hope he does have a good Copa America and comes back firing for us, and we've brought in players that can match his quality and make sure we're not so reliant on a 30-year-old with persistent injury issues.

I was mad the other day, and still think there would have been no harm in him being on the bench for the game in order to be there for the fans. I think that's a poor decision from everybody.

But by God, I don't want him to not be here next season, when if the recruitment is right we might actually have a team capable of pushing on.

He wouldn't have been right for Sunday's game whether fit or not, let's face it. We're going to play on the edge of the 18-yard box and try and grind something out, which is all we can do anyway.
 
If he is hurt, he is hurt. If he wouldn't be able to run and he'd be a liability then he shouldn't play.

The talk about the Copa America is frustrating - particularly hearing it from Carlo. It's a meaningless tournament this year - even to South Americans - and it was maybe important to Colombia and James as Colombia was to host the tournament and he is our biggest star.

But Conmebol stripped Colombia of the tournament yesterday formally because of the unrest - recent Copa Libertadores (SA's champions league) matches were marred by players literally getting poisoned mid game by tear gas infiltrating stadiums from the protests happening everywhere in multiple cities. The tournament was then supposed to move to Argentina but the AFA ceased all football being played in Argentina this afternoon due to a serious COVID outbreak. There is a pretty good chance the tournament gets cancelled or postponed again...

The big priority for Colombia is the upcoming WC qualifiers, which take place prior to the Copa America - and Colombia is in desperate conditions after getting crushed in their last two fixtures. New coach is taking helm and likely would look to James -> but irrespective his place as the country's best player I struggle with justifying his call up if his calf is in this shape. And those qualifiers will likely be postponed or posted elsewhere now...
 

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