Training Thursday 27/11

[Beefymcfc]

Mike SummerKey.

and

SheiKhey Mansour ;-)

[Goataldo]

Clive Allen....key?

[Ted Hughes]

Was it one of the keypers?

[Ted Hughes]

Was it one of the keypers?

[chef]

please LOCK this thread..

[Beefymcfc]

please LOCK this thread..

With what, the *** ;-)

[1950]

please LOCK this thread..

Go back to the keytchen.

[circumspect]

Revin keeves?
As nobody got hurt, which player didn't get injured? My guess is he was Very Key to our defence.
Initially that is.

[dazby]

It wasn't a player, it was Kevin Keygan.

[Kapil]

According to the independent the player in question is Adam Johnson

The Manchester City winger Adam Johnson will miss Sunday's FA Cup trip to Notts County and is a doubt for next week's league visit to Birmingham City after he was removed from training on a stretcher yesterday.

Johnson will undergo scans today on a leg injury which, if it is as serious as it looked, could put his presence in next month's Manchester derby at risk. It may also make City less willing to release Shaun Wright-Phillips on loan to Fulham, though the prospects of that are receding fast with the player's personal demands a problem and the west London side showing no inclination to agree to a £3.8m option to buy.

The loss of 23-year-old Johnson is a blow to the City manager, Roberto Mancini, for whom he has been a threat throughout this season, scoring six times in 16 starts. With City seeking a buyout option in their loan deals, the Wright-Phillips move had seemed in some jeopardy in any case, but the loss of Johnson for any period of time would make them even less likely to move on an individual who has made no secret of his belief that he is underpaid at Eastlands. Bolton Wanderers are also interested in Wright-Phillips.

Emmanuel Adebayor passed up the opportunity to become the latest City reject to launch a verbal assault on the club at an introductory press conference, when he was presented by his new club Real Madrid yesterday. "I'm a footballer and what I need is to play football, to be out there on the pitch," Adebayor said.

"I don't think there's a lot of things wrong [at City.] Right now [Mancini has] lost confidence in me. He doesn't have any confidence in me any more and he has decided to choose other players, so for me I'm very happy to be back again on the football pitch with Real Madrid and [have] the chance to play football again."

[BadKompany]

Not good news and i hope he is ok and back soon,however,without any disrespect intended,the 'Key' player description could have been one with far more influence on our fortunes.

[dazby]

Good man Ade.

[Biamp]

Cheers Doug, great report as usual.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Unless I read the above report/comments wrong I didn't see any direct quotes from City so maybe there is a chance that it won't be a long term injury and he might just miss 2 or 3 weeks. I also read on another forum a question about what the hell do they do in training to keep getting these injuries.

Well for one we don't keep getting inuries in training.There have actually been very few and second this one happened when there was nobody near the player. Somebody tried a reverse pass which basically hit AJ as he wasn't expecting it and it caught him off balance and he went over. Freak accident I would say.

[blues2win]

Doug did it look like a sprained ankle? They come in all shapes and sizes depending on ligament damage. We saw that with Kolarov. Could be a couple of weeks could be six weeks. I guess they'll know more when the swelling's gone down.

[cityPinoy_fc]

thanks doug your training reports are awesome as always. how was mj? can he still make those lung busting runs he use to make? keep up the good work!

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Doug did it look like a sprained ankle? They come in all shapes and sizes depending on ligament damage. We saw that with Kolarov. Could be a couple of weeks could be six weeks. I guess they'll know more when the swelling's gone down.

That's it in a nutshell. It's the paper saying it's a sprained ankle I think rather than City but there was immediate concern when he went down from everybody. Usually a player will walk or hobble off but as seen from the pictures he was carried off so it aint great.

[Beefymcfc]

Unless I read the above report/comments wrong I didn't see any direct quotes from City so maybe there is a chance that it won't be a long term injury and he might just miss 2 or 3 weeks. I also read on another forum a question about what the hell do they do in training to keep getting these injuries.

Well for one we don't keep getting inuries in training.There have actually been very few and second this one happened when there was nobody near the player. Somebody tried a reverse pass which basically hit AJ as he wasn't expecting it and it caught him off balance and he went over. Freak accident I would say.

I hope you're right Doug, AJ is becoming a big player for the team, whether it be from the start or from the bench, he'll surely be missed, especially now that we have height in the box for him to put balls into.

Wierd story there though, somehow inferring that Ade should have stook the boot in about City and Mancini, don't they know he is still our player?

[Douglas Higginbottom]

thanks doug your training reports are awesome as always. how was mj? can he still make those lung busting runs he use to make? keep up the good work!

In his first comeback when I saw him that was missing as he was getting back to fitness but this time I think he looks fitter and I have seen him starting to make runs past the front line. I wouldnt say actually lung bursting but promising and of course it's important when he does make a run that he can get back fairly quickly. I would say the signs are good.

[cityPinoy_fc]

thanks doug your training reports are awesome as always. how was mj? can he still make those lung busting runs he use to make? keep up the good work!

In his first comeback when I saw him that was missing as he was getting back to fitness but this time I think he looks fitter and I have seen him starting to make runs past the front line. I wouldnt say actually lung bursting but promising and of course it's important when he does make a run that he can get back fairly quickly. I would say the signs are good.

thanks dude for the reply, again keep up the good work.