Following the news that West Ham’s German striker Niclas Fulkrug had withdrawn from his countries international yesterday – and was returning to West Ham for treatment on a calf injury, there was predictable anxiety from the club and fans alike as the spectre of Fullkrug’s last ‘calf injury’ raised its ugly head again: The striker ended up with a three month absence at exactly the same time last season. Lightning striking twice?
The wisdom of not signing a frontman under thirty was again questioned. However the early prognosis has been determined and published and you’d hope that the news is positive.
From hammers.news comes the report that a club spokesman was quite bullish about Fullkkrug;s recovery time and the nature of his injury which has now been assessed by the Hammers team: “Thankfully Fullkrug’s injury, from what we understand, doesn’t look much.” was the verdict from within the club.
There is an expectation that Fullkrug will be absent for the Spurs game next weekend – but hopefully fit again thereafter for the fixtures against Crystal Palace on the 20th September and away at Everton on the 29th September. So fingers crossed the muscle injury appears NOT to be a recurrence of the serious issue that plagued him for the first half of last season.
I am sure our striker injury curse started when Dean Ashton’s career was effectively ended training with England
I do not understand why we didn’t get another striket , even when fit Fulkrug is slow . Needs addressing the striker option .
Aren’t there any other older strikers available, Geoff Hurst hasn’t got a club at the moment.
Summerville will be out for 1 game, 8 months later…
Disastrous signing,, he looks so fat off the pace anyway.
If memory serves me corrrctly, wasn’t this the exact same prognosis trotted out the last time Fulkrug returned from injury?
Marcus Leonardo is an unexpected gift horse.
Have whu learnt by their mistakes?
A bolt from the blue to ease striker problem and sweeten fans.
agreed, as per my 07.00 article this morning!
Honestly….why was this transfer to west ham even given the go-ahead.
I’m not sure many people believe what information comes out of the club these days. In this instance I’ll wait on when Fullkrug is back in the match day squad again, whenever that is.
It seems unlikely to me that Sullivan would feel comfortable with a situation to add further credibility to the letter of no confidence and with protests looming. Fullkrug back quickly from injury might just be wishful thinking of a certain short arse.