Injuries - 2023/24 | Ederson cleared to return to training (p 146)

Tricky_Trev said:
Absolutely no sympathy for Pep. It’s his decision to run with the league’s smallest squad despite us being in 7 competitions this season. Everyone knew this was going to happen.
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We got very fortunate last season that the only attacking player we had absent for any amount of time all season was Foden with an injury, then appendicitis, then an operation and recovery from that and then another knock again.

This season already, it’s been one after the other after the other.

If that carries on, every trophy we are fighting for becomes more difficult to win.

The teams who win trophies are usually the teams who have the least injuries or the teams who can cope with having injuries through having a deeper squad.

I can see why Pep likes a small squad who play all the time (at Barça he barely ever rotated anyone! he had a bigger squad before we bought Doku and Nunes at City this Summer than he used to have at Barça) because it builds form and consistency and with that, if they stay fit, it’s more likely they’ll win.

It’s a fine line though because if they do get injuries, the team is impacted massively.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
We got very fortunate last season that the only attacking player we had absent for any amount of time all season was Foden with an injury, then appendicitis, then an operation and recovery from that and then another knock again.

This season already, it’s been one after the other after the other.

If that carries on, every trophy we are fighting for becomes more difficult to win.

The teams who win trophies are usually the teams who have the least injuries or the teams who can cope with having injuries through having a deeper squad.

I can see why Pep likes a small squad who play all the time (at Barça he barely ever rotated anyone! he had a bigger squad before we bought Doku and Nunes at City this Summer than he used to have at Barça) because it builds form and consistency and with that, if they stay fit, it’s more likely they’ll win.

It’s a fine line though because if they do get injuries, the team is impacted massively.
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The small squad might affect us but the club went to great lengths to get best medical team. This was an interesting article I read about behind the scenes.

We might get extra players in January depending on how we fare reported by Tolmie on Twitter.

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