Alexander Isak

[baitman]

He looks frail.

[Yozza]

Undergone surgery

Ankle damage plus a fractured fibula

[Slinky Skills]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5y9d7xl8dvo

[Doc_Piptorious]

Just write off the unlucky fecker's season.

Get him back in some sort of training by March or April (if all goes well) and then concentrate on him having a great pre season.

[peterbread]

Joyce: Liverpool have said Alexander Isak underwent surgery today on an ankle injury that included a fibula fracture.
Joyce: No definitive timescale on his return but the expectation is that he plays again this season.

[danperkins]

Em, why on earth would our medicall team walk him off the pitch? That is so negligent

[kingfunk]

If he misses pre season I’ll be livid!

[Tatterdemalion]

FFS. Next season, we will have a team of hungry monsters.

[danperkins]

Genuinely though, why the **** would they walk him off the pitch when it was pretty obvious to everyone that it was severe. Walk it off son, you'll be grand, cannot believe it.. someone should be sacked for that.

[Kenneth]

As if you're in any way qualified to get angry about this.

[danperkins]

Not angry, gobsmacked. I'm not qualified whatsoever but believe in pre cautions with potential leg breaks and as it turns out actual leg breaks.

[SB]

As if you're in any way qualified to get angry about this.

Now you’re going to really make him angry

[Kenneth]

That's a research angle for you I guess. Does walking assisted over a small distance with a fractured fibula pose significant risk? If yes, then cool, there's a genuine complaint, if not, there isn't. And even if it's yes, it's another jump to demanding sackings.

[danperkins]

Potential severe injury, pre caution. Why take a chance, they didn't know is the point.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Potential severe injury, pre caution. Why take a chance, they didn't know is the point.

You are not wrong but it is with the advantage of hindsight.

They will have done a visual assessment (without the benefit of seeing replays), they will ask the player what he is feeling or in the case of some injuries what he is not feeling.

Then the player will be moved based on their best educated guess in that moment.

Yes it is not optimal to walk someone with a fracture off the pitch even if you are taking some of the weight as it can increase the healing and recovery times, but they will have done what they did based on the information available.

In some ways it is similar to VVD when the tiny T rex took him out. He also walked off of the pitch and then his injury turned out to be far worse than it initially looked.

Personally I would be favour of a stretcher being used every time if a player was being subbed off straight away for an injury that looks potentially a bad one, but would not knock those that went onto the pitch as they very much acted within the boundaries of their training.