“Ederson, Nathan Ake, Sergio Gomez, Rodri, and Erling Haaland were all back in ManCity training today after respective injury/fitness issues.”
Did anyone not see this coming? Seems it’s a regular occurrence where City players will say they are “injured” to miraculously recover in a week after getting to fly back early.
It’s not just City mate, many clubs do this, I suspect we did it with Colwill.
Until they fix this ridiculous international break every month for 2 weeks nonsense it’s gonna keep happening.
Just play the internationals in a block in October and that be it.
Gusto was a mad one too, said there was a small MCL tear in his knee and he was back training a couple of days later
We definitely did it with Mitoma as well
Nah I think Mitomas still out
Just play them at the end of the season in like a month block and push all the games up to finish sooner
You’d disadvantage smaller nations if their star player was injured for the block, and also not all the European leagues have the same August/September to May/June running window so again the smaller countries get screwed.
Smaller? Even Spain Italy germany struggle with injuries in certain positions. Only France and England can just call up replacements of similar quality across the board.
I’d watch a tournament style qualification month, especially if it means fewer international breaks.
This would honestly work much better, plus the quality of international football could actually increase in such setup. The team gets more time to gel, more trainings together and a better preparations opportunity.
The idea makes perfect sense.
Doesn’t allow for National managers to test out new players and for players to break into the national team from club form though. National managers require regular contact with their squads so they can shape them as major competitions come up. How regular that should be is up for debate though
Well you see that’s why it won’t ever happen
They are actually doing something similar in a few years. From 2027 the first few international breaks in a season will be in one four-week block
Two weeks. Not four,
None of Liverpool’s players did it.
You Liverpool fans never have a day off this do you.
The Fa have cracked down and actually do assess all players after Raahford’s actions in March, .
And when 15 million match the CL final maybe internationals will be cut.