Extending Laura’s is very good news. It’s good news for her, it’s good news for the fans, it’s good news for the club, and there is absolutely no downside to this whatsoever. This is a bit of business that I am 100% fully behind and I really hope that the short term future involves a very competitive and active tandem of right backs in Laura and Emily.
I don’t have kids but have been around them tons, and this signing kinda feels like when you clean up a kid’s play room. A few minutes before there’s just stuff everywhere, nothing makes sense, you can find anything from chocolate pieces to things that look like chocolate pieces but aren’t chocolate. The latter is kinda what that manager has created in our club, so to see Laura extend, coupled with Leah as well, is like cleaning stuff and putting things in their assigned place. Most of them anyway.
In other non news and the apparent calm that is around the fan base is more like the burning home meme where the little dog is drinking coffee and saying to himself: I’m fine. And of course I’m talking about the lack of news regarding Pelova.
Why have we not been told? There is no way it takes this long to figure out what the injury is or at least for the club to say something about it. There are different protocols for the releasing of news regarding things such as injuries or personal time off in/for the Netherlands so we’ll just have to wait and see but I am not hopeful at all. I am convinced this is a really bad injury. I feel really bad for her and that wasn’t a good tackle to make but the way she landed after was catastrophic and I would be surprised if she isn’t ready for the start of the season, if that.
Once the news are confirmed I will talk more about it but if you’re read this blog for the past 2 or 3 months you would have read that I have felt she has been injured. I have seen her play so many matches and she didn’t seem to be running the same way.
I am not a stats person but I can pretty much guarantee there has been a considerable drop-off in her performances, assists and goals. She had a good 3 or 4 months and then probably around the time she got injured or started with some issues, it all went south and I know it’s very hard for some fans to see and admit it but she hasn’t been the same player you all love for a while. She seems hesitant in decision making and things like that be affected when we don’t feel our body is there perfectly sound.
She doesn’t deserve this injury, she doesn’t deserve any injury ever and neither do any of the players. The fans will have an absolute meltdown and the club better be lining up midfielders which we need anyway.
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