Remember Wilson Odobert? Yeah, I hardly do too. He came in as a late Tottenham Hotspur signing this summer, played a couple of games, got injured, recovered, reinjured himself in training, and has been out ever since. Ange Postecoglou called the re-injury “a pretty serious one” after it happened in a press conference, so you know it’d be a while before he was back.
But now we have something of an update on his situation from the man himself, and unfortunately it’s an Instagram story taken from his hospital bed.
So, uh, hospital bed almost certainly means surgery, and considering Odobert was nursing what seemed like a hamstring injury, I’m going to go out on a limb and flex the medical degree I got from the University of Holiday Inn Express–Indianapolis and suggest we might not see him suit up for us for another 3-4 months.
Me, right now:
Now, I could be wrong about this (it was an associate’s degree from UHIE-INDY), and I sincerely hope I am. Maybe it was a minor procedure and not hamstring or knee surgery. But no matter what, it’s not the update we wanted over this international break. The only positive thing we can hang our hat on is that surgery was clearly needed and now that he’s had it he can start to heal and hopefully make a full recovery.
Whether his recovery is this season or next season remains to be seen. Rest well, Wilson.
