Without wanting to sound like Willo, I was speaking to one of the sports scientists at West Ham and he said it's not a case of he is injury prone in the sense he gets recurring hamstring injuries or anything like that.

All his injuries are due to having odd joints in his body caused by the speed at which he grew as a teenager. It basically means that when he jumps his joints bend incorrectly when he lands which causes knee, groin and ankle injuries that are completely unrelated and impossible to negate.

You could wrap him up in cotton wool but the likelihood is when he steps out on the pitch, he's likely to end up on the physio table.

Obviously, he put it a lot more eloquently than me.

I agree, back in the 50s they sports scientists weren’t invented. A Chairman in a sheepskin coat running the club on his own, days of old.
Now millions of pounds wash around the game with people desperate to get their noses in the trough with silly job names.

Don't do yourself down JB; your post was perfectly eloquent.

One thing about it made me chuckle. The words 'one of' as in 'one of the sports scientists at West Ham' (ie how many sports scientists does a mid-table premier League club have these days FFS?). This makes me realise how much football has changed since my childhood, when the 'backroom staff' meant basically:

The manager.
The 'trainer' (aka the physio aka the bloke with the sponge).
The tea lady.

Is this why Sørloth never jumps?

Don't do yourself down JB; your post was perfectly eloquent.

One thing about it made me chuckle. The words 'one of' as in 'one of the sports scientists at West Ham' (ie how many sports scientists does a mid-table premier League club have these days FFS?). This makes me realise how much football has changed since my childhood, when the 'backroom staff' meant basically:

The manager.
The 'trainer' (aka the physio aka the bloke with the sponge).
The tea lady.