Fred Breaks His Foot

By: Inara | June 28th, 2007

The idiot, currently away to dispute the Copa Amerca with Brazil, broke his metatarsal at practice today.

Why, Fred, why?

Why are you morphing into a jealous, injury prone monster whose anxiety attacks result in vicious elbows? What happened to the sweet, adorable, healthy you of last year, who was grateful to play as John Carew’s backup? Have you been replaced by a pod person?

*cries*

The Brazil team doctors did a preliminary x-ray and saw that he broke a bone. He has to be off his feet for four weeks, and it will probably take him another four weeks to get back to full fitness. At least. Brazil manager Dunga had no choice but to let Fred go (which also left the Brazilian NT in a lurch - it’s too late to call up new players, and the only two strikers left are Crapner Love and Afonso Alves).

That just blows. After all Fred put Lyon through to get ready for Copa America, it turns out that he doesn’t get to play a single minute of it! I mean, geez. His antics would have been worthwhile if he had been able to score a couple of goals.

Fred’s injury should effectively end AC Milan’s interest in him. It also means that he won’t be able to play for Lyon until mid-September. But we’ve seen how long it takes Fred to recover from injury, and as Lyon’s highest goalscorer, his absence could make or break Lyon’s campaigns both domestically and in Europe.

The club is now short handed on strikers. Just two weeks ago, Aulas stated that Lyon were not in the market for strikers, so he didn’t do anything about the interesting possibilities that had been available at the time. And now, with the Peace Cup coming up in two weeks, the club is going to have to make some rush decisions that will probably turn out to be unwise in a few months.

Since Lyon made no serious plans about getting a striker, it’s too late for the club to follow normal procedure (selecting a target months in advance and spending time crafting the perfect contract). The only quality strikers left at the moment will surely be too expensive or unsuited for the club. And let’s not forget that Lyon have no more non-EU spots available, as all four of them are currently occupied by Brazilians - including Fred. So no spur of the moment Brazilian recruitment.

Is his body breaking down?

And worse still, Fred will probably suffer another jealousy attack at seeing a striker brought in to cover his spot because he’s too busy getting injured every five seconds.

I know I’ve been bad mouthing OL players all week, but can you blame me? This is Fred’s fourth injury in the space of eight months. He’s not just injury prone. He’s suicidal. I know Aulas is foaming at the mouth right now because Lyon’s doctors told Fred that he should skip Copa America so that he could heal fully, and had he listened, Lyon wouldn’t be light an extra striker.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.