And it was a good scoop and it could be that length of time (i guess thats a generic time out for a hamstring) but as the scans that would confirm the severity or not of the injury haven't actually happened yet or hadn't happened at time of the message/rumour being passed on then there are...
This season he's missed:
Sheff Utd (H) 1-1
Chelsea (A) 2-3
Brentford (H) 2-1
West Ham (A) 0-0
So without him its a fairly decent W 1, D2 , L1 and one out of our only 2 clean sheets all season
And he came on in the Sheff Utd cup tie with the game pretty much won.
I'd always want him to be...
They sometimes aren't - see Olise for his hamstring woes - but they often are. Depends if they are serious tears or strains. Adingra and Mitoma were back training / playing within a matter of weeks for Japan and Ivory Coast.
He's not "out for 6 weeks" - not for definite. Most hamstring injuries aren't that serious. And one injury was a knee injury or knock, this is a hamstring.
He's scored 5 from open play with 2 assists. Most of the (8) penalties he's also won himself.
He has 13 goals in total, 7 in the PL.
His open play PL goals were the shot v Man Utd (A), the header v Forest (A) , and glancing header v Chelsea (A)
Trossard started 18 of our first 18 PL games this season normally playing on the left side of a front three or four and a couple of times as a false 9.
Mitoma , although they played together a couple of times, has started as a left sided attacker/winger in every game - since Southampton (A)...
On transfers - it’s incredibly rare that he’d put his neck out like this for it to be wrong. He has a long, accurate track record.
On - player x or player x people are talking to club y about a leave stuff - then harder to corroborate.