Bumping this one up.
Hope that our good start to the season is not to be undone by national coaches playing players whose seasons haven’t really begun. We’ve been deliberately resting players after their summer exertions, yet we now find them called up for international duty and the prospect of playing 180 minutes in the space of a few days . For example, Ake is in the Dutch squad for the Netherlands but has only played 3 minutes of competitive football so far. Similarly, Foden (45), Stones (40), and Walker (2) haven’t played a full game between them this season.
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One would hope that common sense will prevail and that international coaches will use such players sparingly, but, for me, common sense should have led them not to be picked in the first place.