United fans might have been entitled to feel a tad disgruntled upon seeing how often Louis Saha had been playing for his new club Everton. Whilst I wished him well and never resented him in a way a lot of reds began to, I wasn’t too impressed to see that after spending his entire United career in and out of the treatment room that he was playing every game for Everton.
He first made his comeback from an injury to play in the second half of Everton’s 2-2 all draw with Hull. Then just three days later he played a full 90 minutes in the League Cup. Another three days after that he came on as a sub with half an hour to play, then another five days passed and he was starting for them in the UEFA Cup. He didn’t miss a single game in October or November. What the fuck was going on? What had they done with the real Saha?
Whilst I wouldn’t take joy in a former red being injured, there is a slight feeling of consolation in learning that after being ruled out with injury at the end of November, Saha is set for more time out.
“Louis has been re-scanned and he will be out for another four to five weeks,” said Moyes today.
We paid over £12 million for that lad almost five years ago now, yet will have seen very little of that transfer fee recouped when he was sold to Everton. Whilst the transfer fee was undisclosed, it is well known the blue half of Merseyside don’t have a pot to piss in and will have got Saha at a steal.
To see him playing game after game, no injury problems, meant we’d allowed Everton to get one of the bargains of the summer. Saha is a great player when you can keep him fit. However, we can be reasured now by his 2 month lay off that he wasn’t just allergic to playing for Manchester United, rather his legs really are made out of glass!
I was supportive of the lad at first even when it got quite comical the amount of injury’s he was having but i lost faith in him the moment he injured himself just simply taking a shot at goal it then became so ridiculous it was clear he had to go, shame though he is a great striker when he’s fit and playing regular matches but that NEVER happens, it actually makes me laugh out loud to myself when i see “saha out for weeks” because he’s tripped over a blade of grass.
Sahahahahaha
There is a very large notion going about that he is a Jehovah’s Witness and visited the Eccles Hall Church or whatever they call it a lot when he was playing for us..
The thing with the Jo Jo’s is that they wont have normal treatments etc… and this was what was causing him to have lengthy lay offs..
I loved Saha, he was a class act, it’s such a shame that he suffered all them injuries as I really do think he could’ve been a United great and a world class player.
Saha is talented enough to play for any team, he’s also as fragile as an egg.
In the end, it wasn’t hard to see him go… though the thought of it beforehand, always made me not want it to happen. Sentimental old fucker that I am.
sad story ..
Mic is right.The season after Ruud left he was on his way to bagging 30 goals.Had he not been so injury prone i think he was going to be tne next Andy Cole for this club.
As has been said, a quality player when you can keep him fit. Sadly, we couldn’t and only benefitted from him in spits and spurts.
Thankfully he was fit enough to prove that a traditional United 4-4-2 wasn’t beyond us in the 2000’s. For that 3 or 4 months at the back-end of the 05/06 season, when he was quite literally a revelation to United, I thank him.
True, the thought that Everton were getting something we weren’t irked me, but it’s something you accept as being part of Sod’s Law and I’d never in a month of Sundays wish for him to get injured.
Get well soon, Louis!
great player when fit. all the best Louis!
Yeah, I wasn’t overjoyed to see him playing well for Everton but it was consolation that I could turn to some of the half-wits in this world who called him shit and show them how good he was. I think he’s absolute quality and never thought he would be when we signed him from Fulham. It looks like his career is destined for the scrapheap though which is a bit unfortunate because he would have/should have been a great premiership striker and a France regular.
He ultimately was found out not to be good enough glass legs or no he just wasn’t good enough
None of you are looking at it from his perspective. Sure I was just as frustrated as everyone else when he would find every opportunity he could to get himself injured, warm-ups included. BUT you think he enjoyed that? It cost him a place at MANCHESTER UNITED. It cost him ever winning trophies like the CL or the League title. You think he enjoys that? You think it sucks for us to see him getting injured given his potential? Think about what HE goes through. While it’s alright to joke about how fragile he is I think it is extremely wrong to say anyone feels even the slightest joy in him not being able to play again. To these players football is life, they long for a ball at their feet. We as fans cannot fathom what feeling injured feels like.
To see him staying fit at Everton was a joy for me. It was not like we sold him with the condition that he had better get himself injured every few months so we can feel good, it was with the knowledge that he might just stay fit for a while but it was a risk we were willing to take. If anything I felt maybe we should have kept him at United after all, but never did I wish him to get injured, because that is just wrong. At United he did all he could to play, and when he did he gave us his all. How can you blame him for something he has no control over.
I have nothing but the greatest respect and sympathy for Saha, and wish him a speedy recovery.
I fear that we made another “Saha transfer” when we bought Owen Hargreaves. I sure hope the surgeries Hargo has been through will work since I’m a big fan of him.
Top class player when we could get him fit and out on the field. I think most of his problems could be in his head, if he feels a twinge or not 100% i think he bottles it. I even heard arumour that he wouldn`t take injections for a knee injury. Remember Les Sealey when our physio told him he had to come off because of a knee injury, now that was commitment.
I’ve always wondered why people love to hate Saha so much, like dude said football is these cats’ life who would want to lose out on playing for United for everton? c’mon I don’t see half the hate for Hargreaves and he was hurt when we bought him, I’m not saying we should hate owen, I just don’n see why people think he was trying to be injured aal the time.
ps I think Jehovah’s Witnesses only don’t take blood transfusions, so unless that’s a common rehab technique I don’t think that would be the reason for the injury bug.