Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Note in OP, 1/09

Charlie19 wrote: »

Liverpool are seething at England’s treatment of Daniel Sturridge after the striker had a request rejected for a recovery training session on the day he suffered his thigh injury.
Brendan Rodgers will be without his leading forward for up to three weeks, with a problem sustained while training at St George’s Park last Friday.
“We certainly feel it could have been prevented,” said the Liverpool manager who, with Emre Can out for six weeks with an ankle injury collected playing for Germany Under-21s and Joe Allen jarring a knee playing for Wales, is counting a high cost from the international break.
Liverpool are to make a complaint to the Football Association over Sturridge’s latest injury on international duty, which occurred less than 48 hours after he played 89 minutes of England’s friendly against Norway.
Rodgers believes the issue could have been avoided had the manager, Roy Hodgson, and his backroom staff followed Sturridge’s individual recovery programme at club level, details of which England had, although the FA would argue the management must maximise the limited time they get with the player.
“These types of players you have to recover individually,” said Rodgers. “You can’t just throw a blanket over them and think one recovery fits everyone because it doesn’t.”
Normally, the 25-year-old has an active recovery session two days after a match – a low-to-moderate-intensity routine designed to avoid muscle problems. Sturridge asked England’s coaching team for such a session last Friday but though Gary Cahill sat out training that day with a fitness problem, the Liverpool striker was instructed to take part in regular training instead. He subsequently pulled up with the thigh injury and missed England’s Euro 2016 qualifying win over Switzerland on Monday when his replacement, Danny Welbeck, scored twice.

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Eh...what???