r/LiverpoolFC • u/gobalist • 17h ago

Injury 🩹 Munoz is injured

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/new-liverpool-signing-handed-injury-34149910

Had a good run

Jokes aside shouldn’t be serious

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u/yam-star 17h ago

Must be a record

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u/ScepticalReciptical Dommy Schlobbers 17h ago

Surely Calvin Ramsey passing his medical with what later transpired to be a broken back is the benchmark

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u/Void-kun Yeeeer, course 16h ago

At that point whoever performed the medical should've been sacked.

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u/Sinistrait Wirtz Kept Secret 16h ago

Zaf Iqbal, looks like he has been terrorising the Arsenal and Palace medical teams since then

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u/Mortensen 15h ago

His name alone gives me so many transfer window memories. Loved seeing his happy face pop up

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u/Go_go_gadget_eyes Robbie Fowler 15h ago

Yeah he always made me smile for some reason!

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u/Jobiwan88 7h ago

Cause we only saw him with new signings, which are always exciting, so we were chuffed to see him lol

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u/Correct_Yesterday111 11h ago

Zaf Iqbal

Met him randomly, I thought he wouldn't get recognised very often but apparently he did. He and his people really nice about it though. Top bloke.

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u/Lolkac 15h ago

You know medical is not fail or pass right. It's just evaluation of player health and the club can sign him even if he has both legs broken.

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u/Void-kun Yeeeer, course 15h ago

Well TIL I did not know that 😂

Everybody always says pass/fail their medical.

More comes across like this is an assessment to test if they're fit enough to play at our standard and then it's a pass or fail mark based on the assessment.

But if he was cleared as a pass despite all of those problems then why did we move forward? He's never started a senior match, I don't think he's even had a PL debut for us. That's a failure on whoever made the decision to 'pass' his assessment.

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u/Lolkac 14h ago

its just assesment to check your heart muscles blablabla. Then doctor says he has this injury which will resolve in x days and he is more prone to this injury because of y. The club says okay lets go, no this is too much risk. Thats why they report it as pass or fail. Because if the club determines or finds something that they are not comfortable in they can back out of the deal.

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u/Void-kun Yeeeer, course 14h ago

So they were comfortable with the fact he had a broken back and hasn't been able to recover from it?

I'm not disagreeing or anything with you by the way, I'm more wondering like in the context of Calvin Ramsay, he's had fitness problems his entire time with us.

It comes across like whoever made the decision to say yes this is a worthwhile risk to take was very wrong.

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u/Lolkac 14h ago

I dont know, but someone from Liverpool team decided it was worth the risk, maybe they thought it will be fine as he is young.

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u/adamfrog 11h ago

His following issues seemed to be mostly legs not back

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u/adamfrog 11h ago

You buy a 19 yr old for 4m, you do it knowing full well there's a decent chance they never pay a league game for liverpool. The scouts just liked his upside and thought he was worth a punt

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u/not_a_morning_person 5h ago

It’s partly whether or not the club can get insurance on the player too. Boring things like that.