Joel Matip - retired from football

[ronnup]

Hes crocked, this would be madness

[MPH]

1 hour ago, ronnup said:

Hes crocked, this would be madness

 

pay as you play? Or at least low basic and high incentives for playing?

[ronnup]

11 hours ago, MPH said:

 

pay as you play? Or at least low basic and high incentives for playing?

Nah, 33 and missed almost all of last season with a CL injury. Don't need that around the changing room 

[Sunbury Fox]

15 hours ago, JimJams said:

Ryan Bertrand played far more before joining us on a free, and that move has been subsequently panned by all and sundry because he got an injury that pretty much kept him out for his entire contract, but we weren't signing a particularly injury risky player at the time.  Yet people are ok with going for someone with a massively worse fitness record, who as said, has been injured more than he's been available, who has not played a competitive match in 2024 thanks to a cruciate injury. He's also a year older than Bertrand was. 

Do people just want him so we've got a new sicknote to moan about?

The big difference between Matip and Bertrand is that Matip has played pretty regularly over recent seasons for one of the best teams in the country, including in cup finals and big European games. If fit, he’s better than any of our centre backs by some distance, I think. I get the concerns about his injury record but that could be mitigated by a ‘pay if you play’ arrangement. Certainly wouldn’t want to be offering him a standard 2 year contract on 80k plus per week like we did Bertrand, of course.

[JimJams]

26 minutes ago, Sunbury Fox said:

The big difference between Matip and Bertrand is that Matip has played pretty regularly over recent seasons for one of the best teams in the country, including in cup finals and big European games.

Define "Pretty regularly".  He didn't feature for Liverpool at all in 2024.  Last season he was officially injured for 37 games for Liverpool. The season before whilst only officially being injured for 3 games, he was out of the squad for a further 9 games surrounding his calf injury.  He hasn't played any finals nor any big European games in that time aside from a 5-2 loss to Real in the round of 16 in the CL. By contrast Bertrand was officially injured for a total of 4 games in his final 2 seasons at Saints before making the biggest move of his career.

[Clever Fox]

We're definitely going for a Senior Citzens team at this rate.

[fox_favourite]

22 hours ago, Ashley said:

Kitty won't bite, not now she's been fed.

I watched that film last night! So reference fresh in my head. 

[Tielemans63]

Get him in and give him a 5 year contract 

[longy]

Honestly just get this done. The calm, injury free environment of seagrave will do his fitness wonders. 😚

[SystonFox]

never knew he was 33 wow. lets open up a care home down fosse road south for the lot of um

[FoxesWalk]

On 06/09/2024 at 12:52, Stadt said:

Fits Cooper's mature kink 

I laughed until I realised I’m marginally older than Matip

[FosseSpark]

Plenty were celebrating Brian Little's arrival with Nicky Platnauer, Kevin Poole and Ashley Ward the month before Matip was even born.....

28 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

I laughed until I realised I’m marginally older than Matip

 

[FosseSpark]

Just now, FosseSpark said:

Plenty were celebrating Brian Little's arrival with Nicky Platnauer, Kevin Poole and Ashley Ward the month before Matip was even born.....

 

Now Mahrez is married to Ashley Ward's daughter. Which is enough to make one feel treble old....

 

[filbertway]

Premier League experience <3

[Wortho]

Matip is still good but you'd be lucky to get 15 games out of him.

 

I think he made Van Dijk a better player.

[Mr.Bingles]

Remember Huth. Just saying. 

[Lambert09]

4 minutes ago, Mr.Bingles said:

Remember Huth. Just saying. 

The Huth that was 31 and in his prime when he signed? Or the 33 year old Huth no longer getting game time for us?

[SeCrEt FoX]

Hung up his boots.

[filbertway]

1 hour ago, SeCrEt FoX said:

Hung up his boots.

Genuinely shocked he's not sat at our training grand earning 100k a week for the nexy 20 months  

 

[MPH]

Should have got himself the same agent as Ryan Bertrand.

[Fox92]

18 hours ago, filbertway said:

Genuinely shocked he's not sat at our training grand earning 100k a week for the nexy 20 months  

 

Only 20 months! I think you're missing 16 from that knowing how we give lengthy contracts out to practically anybody.

[Mendi]

Still with out a club as we speak.

[SMX11]

I thought he retired?