Chambo
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:14 am
I am hearing he has at least one broken rib from last night when he scored, if true we are stuffed Saturday ffs.
I should bloody well think so too, yes we have another year on his contract should we choose to take up the option but getting to the point where he was thinking of moving is ridiculous. Get it on the table now and we have Three CB's next season of Chambo, Webster and Smith with Knudsen and Spence as back ups, well happy with that scenario.Town boss Mick McCarthy he would expect that skipper Luke Chambers will get a new contract. The 31-year-old’s current terms are up at the end of the season, although the Blues have an option for a further season.
Chambers was interesting his former club Nottingham Forest on deadline day but McCarthy stopped the move from taking place.
The Blues manager is a huge fan of his captain, who played today despite cracking two ribs when scoring Town’s goal at Brighton on Tuesday and says he anticipates him getting a new contract.
“If you read my programme notes I waxed lyrical about him,” McCarthy said. “I think he’s been an example to every professional footballer, any kid.
“On deadline day [there was interest from Forest], he’s not got a new contract here yet, although playing as a centre-half I would expect that he would get one now, we have discussed that.
“To have been offered a contract for another two years at Nottingham Forest, he never asked to leave, but he’s got [to have] security for his family, so he would have had his head turned a bit. But he knuckled down, even on the day, he’s been brilliant.
“I see so many players that when they get disappointed they down tools, not purposely, some do because some are like that, but others are 10 per cent beneath their best, they’ve downed tools up here.
“But he has been brilliant. He is just top class as a pro and a captain. I can’t speak highly enough of him.
“And he had been up until that point. I’ve said before, he’s as good a captain, if not the best captain, I’ve ever had. He’s been terrific, so well done to him.”
McCarthy says Chambers didn’t appear to be hampered by his rib injury: “He’s got two cracked ribs, he’s not kidding. The pain relief must be working, whatever it is. He must have a good pain threshold.”