Ok, I am not a conspiracy theorist at all, and I am probably reading too much into things, but there are quite a few things that don't add up with the absence of these two.
First of all, why would Hughes drop Taarabt completely against Man City. He's the number 10, the supposed star player. If the game is 1-0 to City with ten mins to go, you need someone like Tarbs to be available to come on and try and unlock the City defence. I don't get it why he would have been completely dropped. I think it's possible something happened, and that Tarbs and Traore (who seem best buddies) walked out. After all, didn't this happen last season - where they both went AWOL, we all thought it was because they had gone for international duty, when in fact, they were supposed to be at the match. Didn't Chamakh play a day later for Arsenal, even though he was meant to go on international duty too with Morocco.
And then they're both "injured" and haven't played since. Both. At the same time. And they're both supposed to be returning ... at the same time! This makes me think there might have been some bust-up, that MH fined them and that they're both being punished, but the club did not want this information getting out, and so we're being told of an "injury" to both of them.
I'm not saying the above is what has happened, it probably hasn't, but I just feel a bit paranoid at all the coincidences and things that don't really add up.
First of all, why would Hughes drop Taarabt completely against Man City. He's the number 10, the supposed star player. If the game is 1-0 to City with ten mins to go, you need someone like Tarbs to be available to come on and try and unlock the City defence. I don't get it why he would have been completely dropped. I think it's possible something happened, and that Tarbs and Traore (who seem best buddies) walked out. After all, didn't this happen last season - where they both went AWOL, we all thought it was because they had gone for international duty, when in fact, they were supposed to be at the match. Didn't Chamakh play a day later for Arsenal, even though he was meant to go on international duty too with Morocco.
And then they're both "injured" and haven't played since. Both. At the same time. And they're both supposed to be returning ... at the same time! This makes me think there might have been some bust-up, that MH fined them and that they're both being punished, but the club did not want this information getting out, and so we're being told of an "injury" to both of them.
I'm not saying the above is what has happened, it probably hasn't, but I just feel a bit paranoid at all the coincidences and things that don't really add up.
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