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

John Cross and Henry Winter discuss Rodri's injury and the issue of player fatigue.

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[SongofIceandTea]

Man City lost 3 games in PL last season, and all those 3 were when Rodri didn't play trough suspension.

[glantedavid]

They should allow an increase in squad size(from 25 to 36)
The world cup is played over 4 weeks but the squad size has been increased from 23 to 26.

[foolish]

I don't think that any of the governing bodies are going to reduce the number of games that a team is expected to play, what i believe will happen is they will put a limit on how many games a player can be selected and play (perhaps set it so a player is only allowed to play 40 games in a season)

[charlesapana]

That's a big blow for them but he has been talking about rest rest for a long time and looks like nature gave it to him in that manner, wish him speedy recovery

[prabirchatterjee]

Rodri had complained about fatigue....so many games....quality loses...sad

[sizwesandilemtshali]

I feel bad for Rodri, I wish him a good healing process. However, this will teach City fans to appreciate Kovacic more for what he brings to the team whenever Rodi is not available, just recently at the beginning of this season Kovacic did very well for City against Chelsea in their opening match. Tough luck to Rodri, it is time for Mateo to step up to fill this season long void, best of luck to both players⚽🤍

[bbiemain]

give rodri the ballon dor..this guy spoke about players playing too many games then gets his acl torn. this guy is a martyr a hero. fk off nations league & the new champions league format. uefa bowing down to club owners wanting more money so they mask the new format..we all know its super league in disguise

[patrickm]

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

[eshimikidepeter]

The coach is responsible for the work load because there are other players on the team that can play in that position you can't use just one player when you have others that's the consequence for not using the squad depth

[JJones-oijc]

Bs. When Arsenal was getting bullied against the big teams. Arsenal was seen as fragile, now Arsenal are being physical, you think we're being too rough.

[jitgo]

Good job he has his 'mentality' to rely on :)

[richmondodudu]

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.

[raymondotobotekere]

It's Mancity own share of injury for the season..its happened to Manutd last season, it happened to Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, now it's Mancity..so they should deal with it...there's no preference because it's City..they should rotate players

[mohammedfaiisal]

Not a city fan, but this is as bigger blow than KDB being out for a season. As they have a few options in attacking midfield. Rodri is irreplaceable and rarely loses a game. This is a huge boost for Arsenal though. With two years of a runner up finish. This year, they should have more belief to win. But I wouldn't be surprised if City win a fifth season in a row and also get cleared of all charges

[mchukdez]

I want to see that science article of correlation between fatigue and ACL and make the conclusion myself. A very few percentage of players as a whole play a lot of games, and they happen to be in top clubs. I hear historically big clubs from South America, for example, want this extra competition by FIFA. I agree, though, a new additional competition by corrupt FIFA is a bit much. Clubs should just field their academy players for that competition.

[anthonybariek]

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.

[KabuyeMichael-qg]

Ya but I believe pep will find the way

[nickymathew]

Why Sky sports is mourning. When ETH lost 10 players last season these pundits were calling out for his blood now mourning about one player of Man City. Pathetic

[Subaru_]

I think that there is room to manage, for example, every player should only be allowed to register/ feature in a maximum 2 formats ( Carabao Cup and EPL, Champion League and EPL, or FA Cup and EPL), so that team B can play, maybe increase the squad size ( it is costly though).

[aayushmankatiyar]

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