As his arduous road to rehabilitation from a knee injury he sustained more than a year ago draws to a close, Tyrone Mings has said that he “feels good.” Since the first day of the previous season, when he sustained knee ligament damage during a loss at Newcastle United, Aston Villa’s center back Mings has been out of the picture for Unai Emery.
Having missed preseason, Mings isn’t quite ready to rejoin the matchday squad, but Emery has already hinted that he might play again as early as next month.
It’s not the first chronic ailment Mings has had in his career either; six minutes into his top tier debut in 2015, on the first day of Bournemouth’s inaugural Premier League season, he sustained a knee injury. He acknowledged that being on the sidelines every week while your teammates play—and, in Villa’s case, thrive—can be a lonely place.
Mings candidly stated, “The biggest thing to get through a long-term injury is that you have to realise is that no-one cares, and the world goes on,” when starring alongside content creator Jeremy Lynch and England teammate Jordan Pickford in a Second Shot film. “I don’t intend to sound morbid, but football moves really swiftly.
“When you’re hurt, you just have to accept that you won’t be able to play for a while; someone else will take your place on the field, and it won’t matter if they do so because nobody will be able to assist you until you’re well again. All you have to do is take care of yourself; once you’re fit again, you can focus on playing.
