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CW confirmed courts returned to full training today.

I know like a new signing is overused but this is a huge boost. What’s he worth in today’s market?? He was so key to the way we play it’s no surprise we slipped out of the play offs without him controlling the tempo.

Let’s just sound a note of caution though - he’s gonna take a while to get back to fitness. Let’s not slaughter him if he has a few dodgy performances once he’s back. It took him a long time to gain that form after his fitness issues originally.
 



On one hand we need him back asap, on the other he's going to need at least 2 or 3 reserve games to get up to scratch score he's even considered for the first team squad.
It might be really negative but he'll probably have a few niggles and set backs along the way too.
 
Bladeinleeds said:
Let’s just sound a note of caution though - he’s gonna take a while to get back to fitness. Let’s not slaughter him if he has a few dodgy performances once he’s back. It took him a long time to gain that form after his fitness issues originally.
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This the big worry. If it takes him as long as last time to recover he'll be eligible for United's Veterans XI alongside Sharp, Clarke, McGoldrick and Duffy. Time is not on his side unfortunately.
 
Started the L1 promotion season poorly. 1 point out of 12.

Enter Paul Coutts.

99 points from 42 games followed.

First season back in the Champonship. Go top of the league the very same night he gets a season ending injury. Finish 10th.

None of this is coincidence. It’s all quite predictable in fact such is the lads influence, class and importance.

Like a Rolex time piece, he is the big cog to which all of the other cogs in the side rely on for the movement to work efficiently.

His return to the 11 can not come soon enough.

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Kentblade said:
Cannot come back quick enough but will we see the same player?
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If it was something like an ACL, hip injury, tendons etc maybe not

With it being a clean leg break the only thing we have to worry about is if he's lost the aggression he started to play with and belief in himself in the tackle that wasn't there before. If he's still got those two qualities we've still got the same player.
 
I just prey to lord Wilder that we do not get him back involved too quickly. We desperately need him back in the side, but 1 bad knock & he could be sidelined for months yet. Get him back in the side at the end of September at the earliest IMO.
 
Kentblade said:
Cannot come back quick enough but will we see the same player?
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I am sure he will become the same player we knew before injury. The problem for me is that ALL the opposition know exactly what he means to us...I am fearful he will be man-marked and tackled out of existence.

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Bladeinleeds said:
CW confirmed courts returned to full training today.

I know like a new signing is overused but this is a huge boost. What’s he worth in today’s market?? He was so key to the way we play it’s no surprise we slipped out of the play offs without him controlling the tempo.

Let’s just sound a note of caution though - he’s gonna take a while to get back to fitness. Let’s not slaughter him if he has a few dodgy performances once he’s back. It took him a long time to gain that form after his fitness issues originally.
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We can’t rush him back.

As for what would he be worth now, well diddly squat springs to mind because he’ll have had almost a year off by the time he kicks a ball again, people would be silly to spend money on someone coming back from a serious injury like he had.

We can only hope he recovers his pre injury form, that would be good for everyone concerned. I’m not holding my breath though and he doesn’t need unnecessary pressure on him doing so.

In your own time, Paul.
 



Can’t wait to see him back, but are we expecting to much from him. Remenber when he joined us, he was coming back from a bad injury, and coupled with being played in the wrong position, by two numpty managers, it took him 2 years to become the player we have seen for the last season and a half, really hope he can come back and be the same player but think it is going to take a long time.
 
Don't see why he wouldn't be the same player? His injury was a clean leg break which will have fused the bone back stronger than it was before. He didn't do his cruciate ligaments or anything, a clean break is a far easier injury to deal with in the long term than something like that.
 
Kelso said:
Can’t wait to see him back, but are we expecting to much from him. Remenber when he joined us, he was coming back from a bad injury, and coupled with being played in the wrong position, by two numpty managers, it took him 2 years to become the player we have seen for the last season and a half, really hope he can come back and be the same player but think it is going to take a long time.
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You say out of position and that may be the case...........but he played on the right wing with Brayford behind him when he played for Derby, but i'm not sure where he predominantly played for Peterbro' and Preston.
 
Great news but he is still going to be a while off - assuming he doesnt have any other comeback injuries (strains etc).
 
He'll be oreyt. As someone said earlier, a clean bone break heals a lot cleaner than damaged tendons or ligaments.
 
When he joined us after returning from injury he was often the worst player on the pitch. Anyway we have Lundstram.....
 
Surely Coutts has proved its the midfield unit that matters.The 3 must complement each other and create the snappy passing with the rest of the team, losing him and bringing the wrong un in who doesn't know the position of the other 2 and the team loses it. Spend £20m on that positon rather then 4 x £5m journeymen, a good midfield makes our Dads army and league 1 defenders look good - they can bomb up down the pitch as they know the trinity will win it back.
 
Stretch said:
Rolls Royce player. Put it this way we would be breaking our transfer record again if we wanted to sign him.
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Absolutely. Realistically we couldn't afford a replacement of the quality Coutts was when he got injured. He was so instrumental to the way we played and it appeared so effortless. A quality footballer on the top of his game, if ever. I thought maybe Lee Evans might prove a decent stop gap..He's got the natural ability, I think....He's just got to reach that level quicker than it took Paul Coutts (...to be Paul Coutts!):(..UTB
 



fishpie said:
Absolutely. Realistically we couldn't afford a replacement of the quality Coutts was when he got injured. He was so instrumental to the way we played and it appeared so effortless. A quality footballer on the top of his game, if ever. I thought maybe Lee Evans might prove a decent stop gap..He's got the natural ability, I think....He's just got to reach that level quicker than it took Paul Coutts (...to be Paul Coutts!):(..UTB
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Yeah agree re Evans, think he is a very talented lad. Know a few Wolves fans who think the same. He is just a but weak in the tackle for me and needs to be braver in his decision making at times. Big shoes to fill but over time he will get better.
 
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