“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.
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What’s the problem? The clubs are paying their wages. Ask yourself would you rather risk injury etc playing a pointless game against Malta or get your bonuses etc or take a week off and then be fit for match against Liverpool.
Tottenham always seem to do it backwards. Lo Celso out injured for 6 months and his first game back is with Argentina. Or Bentancur literally just did that. His first start after a long injury was against Argentina.
On the flip side, Gabriel Jesus missed the last month for Arsenal with an injury, was still named in the Brazil side and played 90 minutes vs the World Champions. So… thanks to Brazil for helping our player regain his match fitness on his way back from injury I guess.
Bruh even I don’t know who was playing in the international break. This guy is a City fan lol
But when Mourinho did this it was pitchfork time lol
Good. International breaks deserve this
More clubs should do this, they pay the players wages not these leecherous national teams
This has been happening for decades certainly not a new thing.
Everyone saw it coming.
Liverpool have done it for years under Klopp and I don’t blame them one bit. If I had crucial games coming up I’d be in players’ ears telling them they aren’t guaranteed a game if they fly around the world to play two pointless games within a week.
I’ve said in another comment that no player should do it out of respect for their own country. I can’t think of the time Liverpool players have done it but if they have it’s the same sentiment.
Tsimikas literally missed the game against France to be fit to play against City. Sure he didnt fake an injury, but like another commenter said here, it’s not like they’re fooling anyone. It’s a non-issue and a weird thing to fixate about, and I say that as a Red
When was this? Tsimikas has only played against City twice, coming off the bench both times for a grand total of 25 minutes.
Literally this week. Greece played France on Tuesday and he wasnt on the team sheet because he came back to the club early to train and be ready for City on Saturday as Robbo is injured
It was because he was in danger of missing the next match because of too many yellows. Get your facts straight.
Thanks. I’m a plonker and completely forgot about the future.
No worries, international breaks fuck up everything
What do you think the Gravenberch beef with the Netherlands national team is? He refused a call up and they’re excluding him now.
Probably that even when he did go as part of the squad he wasn’t played so was a waste of time. His best chance to get in the squad was probably get up to speed with Liverpool then try and compete.
In the previous comment you said all players shouldn’t decline call ups because it’s disrespectful….
I think there’s a difference between being a starter and important part of the team Vs a rotation player that’s never played. Gravenberch hasn’t made an appearance for Netherlands since 2021. There’s clearly something else there that isn’t just about fitness
It’s pretty impressive, holding all those straws at once
Trent had a few of these international break injuries back when Southgate refused to ever play him.
All clubs fake injuries but Citeh just have no shame about it because they know they can (and will) get away with anything.
Wish Madrid did this :(
Really , who cares . It’s not an official ‘u have to tell the league who’s on injury reserve’ like the nfl has. Which all the teams there abuse also .
This post is basically saying water is wet
So ?
Nothing new most top clubs do it.