‘Irreplaceable’ Rodri ruled out for City | Football must learn its lessons for player fatigue

For the bonkers they're paid for kicking around a ball and entertaining the viewers, nobody's going on strike. In the end, it's a money game, right from FIFA, to the associations, to the clubs, and ultimately, the players.

They throw a tantrum if they get subbed off, but if they don't get a couple of months in the sunshine, they're playing too many minutes. Gimme a break! The season is only a few weeks in, and we need to consider player fatigue because someone picked up an injury? What a bunch of cry babies. With the money their on, they should just shut up, and count their blessings every day.

Karma.

New champions league is the prelude to superleague..citys owners wreck prem league with court costs on their cheating charges..then its opened up for eufa for a middle east superlube..stop it now..

yet when it's a Man Utd player, Sky and the other muppets are lining up to call for the manager to be sacked! you guys are so obviously tendentious that it is actually laughable

Losing Rodri is a minor blow for City. The huge blow will be the punishment for violating FFP: A 60-point plus deduction, relegation to the championship, a multi- year ban from European competition, and the stripping away of a few PL titles.

Where I stand on this matter: There are ways you can solve this issue rather than overhauling the entire system – that shows shallow thinking.

Increasinģ the squad size is one solution. To be honest, these players are earning so much money and if you try to reduce their wages for lesser amount of games, they'll still protest…so?

Let the administrators find creative ways to solve this issue.
Fyi: the new UCL format is exciting and should not be touched.

The ACL ligaments do suffer microtrauma injury that can be made worse by fatigue or a lack of time to heal properly.

This narrative about a lot of games is wild, their pay is commensurate with their work load. Work load is not why he got injured(example Timber) How about Guardiola who refuses to give him a rest ever? He plays 99% of city games when available. It’s the same thing I complain about with Saka.

Players are being overused.. specially with this new format of champions league and nations league.. however, his injury isn’t due to over playing. He barely got back from a rest. It’s just an unfortunate injury.

I don't understand how pros are not fit enough to play a game every 3-4 days… growing up we used to play 2 sometimes 3 games in 1 single day. But these guys get 3-4 days to rest and still say it's too much. How about they act more professional and take care of themselves and stay fit rather than going out to night clubs and partying and maybe they would be more fit and stop getting injuries. And I don't wanna hear the lame excuse of oh it's cause they're getting older, cause that's not an excuse. Cristiano and Zlatan are the best examples of how taking care of yourself will lead to less injuries.

Must have fatigued himself all the rolling on the floor he did in that game

So this is the reason why Chelsea brought so many players.

If you know the game, you knew as soon as he went down, his ACL had gone, it was just a question of how bad. Real shame as he’s probably (all things considered) the best all round player in the world right now.

Crazy how a week ago Rodri was talking about fatigue

He will be playing at the Championship after his recovery😂

Delighted for the city cheats

when it happened to timber nothing said

Expan the squad sizes so that players like Rodri can choose which competitions to not participate in (I don't how that will go with their employers) becuz Jason Reed and Robert Ashworth in the English 3rd tier are not gonna take a pay cut to help elite players like Rodri on this becuz lets be honest, they have no chance of playing in the Champions League or Club World Cup. So Rodri and the elite players unfortunately are on their own. But you wont get that perspective from Skysports.

& where is the pro's union (professional footballer's association) in all of this. They are supposed to negotiate for their constituents, that's what they are being paid for. Honestly the elite pros should consider their legal position and the possibility of LEAVING the association if they don't start doing their job and defending their interests.

Too many fixtures , the players are not machines. They should take a break