wellgirl Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 The club statement has said the break required surgery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mio Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 8 weeks for a wrist break is mental. Let’s be honest we’ve forked out a reputed £250k plus decent wages on this fella and it’s been a disaster. We can’t really afford to write off a big buy for the season but I just hope he is fit by the summer and gets a full pre season and contributes next year. I think he did show in flashes that he has something…. It’s not as if he’s a John Henry or anything. But AP has caused us more frustration than anything else this year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoshi-1991 Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 If he was a car you'd be paying off the local bams to take it down the clyde side and burn it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Tosh Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 My sons and I have sponsored his jersey. I best not shake his hand at the POTY dinner or he'll miss pre-season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzlyg Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 1:13 PM, Big Tosh said: My sons and I have sponsored his jersey. I best not shake his hand at the POTY dinner or he'll miss pre-season Expand Hey Stama!!....High Five!!!.........whoops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spit_It_Out Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 It's not worked for both parties time to punt him out to clubs back home in the hope we can recoup something out of it. A player maybe there in him seen glimpses of something but I wouldnt want to really rely on him to be fit for a great amount of time during a season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kmcalpin Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 12:41 PM, mio said: 8 weeks for a wrist break is mental. Let’s be honest we’ve forked out a reputed £250k plus decent wages on this fella and it’s been a disaster. Expand There's wrist breaks and wrist breaks. He's probably fallen on it. 8 weeks isn't unreasonable for a bad break. My wife had a very bad break a few years ago. Her wrist had broken into umpteen fragments and she required a metal plate and a bone graft. We won't see him again this season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellgirl Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 3:32 PM, Kmcalpin said: There's wrist breaks and wrist breaks. He's probably fallen on it. 8 weeks isn't unreasonable for a bad break. My wife had a very bad break a few years ago. Her wrist had broken into umpteen fragments and she required a metal plate and a bone graft. We won't see him again this season. Expand It's not. When I broke my wrist I was in plaster for 6 weeks and that was a clean break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellfan Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 As it stands, and before his wrist injury, Stama has only featured in 18 of 34 games. His stats by the end of his first full season will likely be 18 from 43 games, no full 90 mins, 5 goals, and 3 medium term injuries. It’s not a great return on our investment, and the chances for it to go a similar way for him next season are now greater given the loads placed on his body appear to keep breaking him. Suffice to say, I don’t think he’s a player we should be relying on for next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzlyg Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 4:17 PM, wellfan said: As it stands, and before his wrist injury, Stama has only featured in 18 of 34 games. His stats by the end of his first full season will likely be 18 from 43 games, no full 90 mins, 5 goals, and 3 medium term injuries. It’s not a great return on our investment, and the chances for it to go a similar way for him next season are now greater given the loads placed on his body appear to keep breaking him. Suffice to say, I don’t think he’s a player we should be relying on for next season. Expand Problem is we can't write off £250k just like that. I think with wimmer in and a good pre season he can be an asset. Kettlewell played him as a headless chicken which was bonkers. The wrist injury is just one of those unfortunate freak accidents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellfan Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 5:56 PM, grizzlyg said: Problem is we can't write off £250k just like that. I think with wimmer in and a good pre season he can be an asset. Kettlewell played him as a headless chicken which was bonkers. The wrist injury is just one of those unfortunate freak accidents Expand It may be a case of writing off a bad debt as, should things go sour again next season for him, the situation is likely to cost us more as we scramble to sign more cover, again. My view is that it just hasn’t worked for him and us, unfortunately. We should look to rehab him and see if we can reach a reasonable agreement with another club to protect ourselves and get his career back on track. Or we keep him and he becomes an even more costly crock. That’s the risk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuwell2 Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 6:04 PM, wellfan said: ……. Or we keep him and he becomes an even more costly crock. That’s the risk. Expand Or we keep him and he’s a success next season, we don’t know but no need to panic yet. If he’s the same next season your doom and gloom approach will have been proven correct but I’m not ready to throw him on the scrap heap over an unfortunate season. Many players go through this in their careers and have then become successful at clubs, why can’t he be the same next season? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santheman Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 6:20 PM, Stuwell2 said: Or we keep him and he’s a success next season, we don’t know but no need to panic yet. If he’s the same next season your doom and gloom approach will have been proven correct but I’m not ready to throw him on the scrap heap over an unfortunate season. Many players go through this in their careers and have then become successful at clubs, why can’t he be the same next season? Expand Me neither. The good thing is all his injuries seem to have been fairly minor one offs in the overall scheme of things. By that I mean non recurring, breaking down from the same injury time and time again or one that has plagued him in the past. He may not at times have displayed the physical or mental attributes needed for this league but I'm happy to see him get a good pre season under his belt and see his family hopefully settled. If it turns out to be a similar pattern next season then maybe we look at the situation again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellgirl Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 6:20 PM, Stuwell2 said: Or we keep him and he’s a success next season, we don’t know but no need to panic yet. If he’s the same next season your doom and gloom approach will have been proven correct but I’m not ready to throw him on the scrap heap over an unfortunate season. Many players go through this in their careers and have then become successful at clubs, why can’t he be the same next season? Expand I'd like to keep him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelmaninOZ Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 5:56 PM, grizzlyg said: Problem is we can't write off £250k just like that. I think with wimmer in and a good pre season he can be an asset. Kettlewell played him as a headless chicken which was bonkers. The wrist injury is just one of those unfortunate freak accidents Expand I agree with you that Wimmer will give him a chance to improve under him than what Kettlewell did. It’s just too early to write Stama off. COYW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzlyg Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 9:01 PM, SteelmaninOZ said: I agree with you that Wimmer will give him a chance to improve under him than what Kettlewell did. It’s just too early to write Stama off. COYW Expand Cheers pal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wunderwell Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 He's the best striker at the club and he's got two more years to prove it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiderpig Posted March 14 Report Share Posted March 14 On 3/14/2025 at 10:12 PM, wunderwell said: He's the best striker at the club and he's got two more years to prove it. Expand The bar is fairly low when it comes to that accolade, Robinson, Ebiye, Watt for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellfan Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 On 3/14/2025 at 7:18 PM, santheman said: The good thing is all his injuries seem to have been fairly minor one offs in the overall scheme of things. By that I mean non recurring, breaking down from the same injury time and time again or one that has plagued him in the past. Expand His first injury with us was his hamstring, as was his second. His third is his wrist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellfan Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 On 3/14/2025 at 6:20 PM, Stuwell2 said: If he’s the same next season your doom and gloom approach will have been proven correct Expand The return on our investment so far has been minimal, so I would suggest my approach here is more of pragmatism than doom and gloom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2025 at 3:39 AM, wellfan said: His first injury with us was his hamstring, as was his second. His third is his wrist. Expand First was a quad injury v Celtic, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santheman Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2025 at 3:39 AM, wellfan said: His first injury with us was his hamstring, as was his second. His third is his wrist. Expand Sure I read somewhere that his second injury was a torn calf muscle (though I could be wrong). Injuries conducive with being played while not being 100% ready?? In fact edit to add after a quick google. "The centre-forward tore a thigh muscle on his first start and, after hitting his fifth goal of the season against Rangers on December 29, he suffered a calf injury that has sidelined him since". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellgirl Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 First injury was quad and second calf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiderpig Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 On 3/14/2025 at 6:04 PM, wellfan said: It may be a case of writing off a bad debt as, should things go sour again next season for him, the situation is likely to cost us more as we scramble to sign more cover, again. My view is that it just hasn’t worked for him and us, unfortunately. We should look to rehab him and see if we can reach a reasonable agreement with another club to protect ourselves and get his career back on track. Or we keep him and he becomes an even more costly crock. That’s the risk. Expand I tend to agree with that, he's never fit and it seems to have got worse since his wife had the baby, I don't think he wants to be here if some of the online chat is to be believed. As for the 8 weeks out with the broken wrist, that stinks of an excuse, Edin dzeko played for Fenerbache on Thursday night with a cast on his arm ffs, so why can't Stamatelopoulos play. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellfan Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 On 3/15/2025 at 10:36 AM, santheman said: Sure I read somewhere that his second injury was a torn calf muscle (though I could be wrong). Injuries conducive with being played while not being 100% ready?? In fact edit to add after a quick google. "The centre-forward tore a thigh muscle on his first start and, after hitting his fifth goal of the season against Rangers on December 29, he suffered a calf injury that has sidelined him since". Expand Fair enough. I stand corrected. But both leg muscle injuries are a concern. I said at the time of his first injury that is was because Kettlewell lobbed him into the Rangers game before he was fully fit, and it’s generally been downhill for him since then in terms of fitness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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