It is an international break injury

McNeil gonna grab an attacking return the next 4 gws

Made this move already so yup that's the one I think

Agree

To be honest, you can't evwn attend a dinner party telling people that you play that fantasy game and how much you hate the IB with late returns and injury concerns.

Barely any of them would do that. They never have a solution to it as well, which could be telling their manager to rotate a 25 man squad

Then they’d be telling us how hard it is being on the bench

That would set the cat among the pigeons.

One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. Cucurella and other players are talking about what appears to be an unsafe work environment. Oh but you get paid 175k a week? Be quiet then.

Why does he have every right? Injuries happen in football. It’s a 25 man squad. Rodri was talking about the schedule but Guardiola had been playing him in every match for years. Cucurella plays once a week and is talking about the schedule

And if some players believe they play too much, what’s the solution? How many more games are played compared with 10/20 years ago? Was the human body not capable back then?

I said some footballers, because the vast majority are playing only once a week. Earnings are relevant, because like the poster above said, if you asked them if they want to play less and therefore earn less, they’d go quiet

I’m not a fan of the new CL format or the nations league btw, the latter is a waste of time

Noone here will know whether injuries to footballers have increased over the years, or the the types, all we have is players telling us they're playing more games, and they don't like that.
Certainly in FPL it feels like a lot less yellow and red flags this season so far!
I'm not quite there yet,

More games = more money = bigger wages + bonuses

It's obviously demanding playing all the time, but top players are compensated extremely well for it. It's massively out of touch to expect sympathy from the masses when you make more in a week than the majority of the country do in years.

FIFA and UEFA are obviously bent as a 9 bob note, but they've already made changes to the game (more substitutions, bigger sub benches, etc) to encourage more rotation. Managers are actively choosing to work with smaller squads and how many times have we seen the likes of Guardiola refuse to make subs or Klopp trot out the same starting XI every single game over the years?

Players know their own bodies better than anyone and I'm sure managers would be willing to rest them if they're feeling the strain - problem is you don't get your appearance fee if you're sat in the stands...

In my opinion there are too many games if you are top player. However what is clear the vast majority of top players are able to play those number of games without serious injury. Ok some will get injured as a result of too many games and some will be serious but it’s an occupational hazard.

Does anyone know how many games is deemed acceptable by the players rising concerns ?

If you not happy at your workplace you’re free to find different employment.
Why should it be different for footballers? If Cucurella is really that unhappy or worried he can hand the notice in\terminate his contract and find a job in which he will be happy.
Maybe Cypress Hill tribute band?

I wasn’t complaining about player wages in particular. They can earn those wages but they need to play the games

Increased workload = more pay. Football player wages are so high because like you say, they’re market driven. Players want to take those wages and play less games though, which is not how it works. That’s the problem

Do you think players would half their wages, in order to play less games? Highly, highly doubt it

As for suffering physically, they have big squads, they have brilliant facilities to help them recover from playing matches. If you go far in all competitions, you have to use the squad and rotate. Some managers don’t rotate, players get injured and they blame the schedule

If my employer increased my workload to the point I can’t cope, I would have to stop working for him. Most footballers love their job and the vast majority don’t complain about the amount of games there are to play

It’s just a few, at some of the top teams, complaining as their manager won’t rotate or they want to reap the rewards of being a football player, whilst somehow telling us they should play less games. That’s entitlement

Exactly.

Rodri started 34 league games last season, playing over 85% of available minutes. His deputies Kovacic and Nunes combined didn't even come close to that, with the latter playing less than 900 minutes across the season (for £50m btw). Three games were missed via suspension, so it's likely he would have played even more (like the previous season).

City played a total of 59 games last season (not including friendlies) - Rodri played in 50 of them, missed 3 via suspension, 1 via injury, and 5 via benching/squad omission. From the Community Shield to the first international break (27 days), they played him in 4 league games and 2 glorified friendlies (the CS and Super Cup).

This isn't a scheduling problem - this is a squad management problem.

Six of one and half a dozen of the other. Waste of 2 FT imo.

Actually didn't realise Kane is out with an injury when I saw Stones will captain England. Maybe Watkins is a sell

Souttar v Wood would be worth the price of admission alone!

Subway Lollygaggers more like it!

Indeed, but I chose to answer this time.

Haaland for the next 2, gw10 & 11 Liverpool probably best then I think Palmer will get most of my captaincies, no Europe is a big factor too

Funny that, considering Palmers price jump was massive, Salah shouldve been similar price I think, bit of hindsight of course but that wouldve made it more of a dilema if they were both over 11m-ish

It's not UpTo the players to lose club friendlies

This

Fair enough,how about Diaz to Johnson?