The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Lovro Zvonarek was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estrela da Amadora lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estrela da Amadora lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lovro Zvonarek is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Estrela da Amadora is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Estrela da Amadora lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Estrela da Amadora can pretend not to have heard.
The chase for Karem Zoabi ended with $2.6M changing hands and Torreense out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
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SquadA move Karem Zoabi would have made for nothing
The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Estrela da Amadora can pretend not to have heard.
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.