Worst Possible News for Pato!

I feared this might be the outcome. The club always do this..oh its just an illness, he wasn't feeling fit..oh its a minor thigh injury, we think he will be OK..oh he needs a scan..oh hes ferked!! PR is pathetic sometimes. Why don't they just say it could be grim news, they must have known? Why try and pretend otherwise? Now we are seeing what happens when the club doesn't release the money to bring in players. We are playing catch up again with most of the decent strikers probably already snapped up by our competitors by now. Poor Pato,get well soon mate, just hope this isn't one of those career-threatening injuries

People keep bangin on about how we should have sold him but surely he wouldn't have passed a medical at Portsmouth or anywhere else for that matter. Think we'll be going 4-5-1 on Saturday !!

Something like this comes out of the blue, we could end up selling the whole frigging team if we do so on the basis of previous injuries, and McCann would be one of the first to go. It's a hell of a shame for Pato and for all of us fans , and I just hope that it isn't as bad as it seems. Doesn't sound good though , but before all you people who are shouting he should have been sold get in on the 'I told you so' sh**e , Eddie himself didn't see this coming, and he's closer than all of us to the players, medical staff etc. Oh and by the way , what the hell has this got to do with the chairman ??

I am wondering this morning if I was too harsh on the Board with my above post, but I think the answer is no. I think we have wasted about £20m in the transfer market since Coyle came in (including wages). That is where the money has gone for me. We have to wheel and deal far better, at least we got some cash for Eagles and Mears. Pato should have been sold to Pompey weeks ago. Now we are really struggling to replace him and a lot rests on Austin Powers and Jay Rod.

I am a Clinical Sports injury & remedial therapist, I would lke to say ime optomistic about Martin Pattersons injury. I have seen & treated to many of these type of injuries, & at the level Martin Patterson has to compete each week & the level of fitness required, i feel we need to bring a £2 million quality striker in now, because it could be weeks of treatment & rehab to get him right again & there is no guarantee that he is not going to break down again.

I am a Clinical Sports injury & remedial therapist, I would lke to say ime optomistic about Martin Pattersons injury. I have seen & treated to many of these type of injuries, & at the level Martin Patterson has to compete each week & the level of fitness required, i feel we need to bring a £2 million quality striker in now, because it could be weeks of treatment & rehab to get him right again & there is no guarantee that he is not going to break down again.

I am no medic but agree with cuban I doubt he would have passed a medical anywhere, it all well being hypercritical when we don't know the full facts, get well soon Pato, on another note I can't see Saturdays game going ahead with these numptys carrying on all over the country now.

Bad stuff happens. It's what you do next that counts. That said, and allowing myself a little looking back, I am inclined to agree with Crosspool that we have not, as a whole, bought and sold well since the days of Cotts. It's almost as if we had a go at being something a bit different, had an immediate result, but then lost our heads a bit in the excitement of the moment, and then got hit by the credit crunch, the way that hit Brendan Flood in particular, the death of Ray Griffiths, and C*yle's lack of discipline and then his treachery... and lost the plot a bit under that pretty extreme pressure. But then how many clubs promoted to the PL haven't done stuff they wished they hadn't later? And it's certainly interesting seing both sides argued on here (sometimes by the same people :-)) that we should have done more trading and that we should have done less trading. Of course we all want better trading, but it's easier to spot a good trade looking back than looking ahead. Given the realities of Burnley's marketplace, and the lessons learned over the last years, I reckon Eddie and the Board are currently going about things sensibly. I don't think that makes me a happy clapper, or an apologist, but a realist who wants a Board to be hard-headed. Like many other clubs our Board and gaffer are finding it a bit slow to finalise deals. I have said before that that is a factor of agents' 'delay and hope' tactics in response to the much wider downward trend in players' wages caused by the wider economic downturn and the various initiatives to make the football industry more sustainable. I'm a big believer in always looking at possibilities for bucking trends. But I wouldn't at the moment, and am therefore staying patient and keeping faith in Eddie. Devastated for Pato, and for everyone who had pinned hopes on him. Alex M looked very sharp at Torquay. I'd be looking at loans from PL clubs.

I want Grimsby to be our leader!

When does concern=negativity and positivity=blind faith? What I do know is that anyone can speak their mind on here without fear of a banning unlike one site I can mention (subject to the laws of libel/slander and common decency of course). I would hope that's why folk come on here and that both sides can comment on all aspects of the club from the Board down,positive or negative without fear of reprisal or personal criticism. As Brian Clough once said 'They are only opinions, they make the world go round'

Theres a long term problen with the top of the Quadracepts. there is a need for carefull work on the muscle fibres around this area deep soft tissue massage & STR Soft tissue release & also Our Physio needs to assess wheither with all the dammage & scar tissue acumulated with injury on top of injury we need to look at a long term replacement. I for one have treated Footballers with this problam and many go on to still play but have to revise their game, In my Opinion Martim Patterson wastes to mutch energy running around when he does not need to. Forum members are welcome to look @ my website to se that ime not just harping on but talking out of 15 years clinical experience www.albmaleaf.co.uk

I agree with Fedup, if you asked him to take his work rate out of his game he just wouldn't be as effective as a player. If the optimists on this site believe we can sign a player now then why haven't we signed another striker yet after getting rid of two? Now we are three down albeit one temporarily for a reported 3 months with only 2 young and IMO still progressing players to lead the line.