Pep Guardiola, Manchester City director, believes that the teams ranging from 40 men can be the only way to deal with football calendar demands, but she says they will push clubs to bankruptcy.
City is one of the many aspects, including Tottenham and Arsenal, who was disturbed by injuries this season, with defender Manuel Akanji, the last player who was marginalized after news of a knee lattice injury in the Kai Hefrtz season.
Akanji faces up to 10 weeks after his kidnapper was torn during the Champions League defeat on Tuesday against Real Madrid. Guardiola feels that injuries that affect many parties are a direct result of the constantly broad football table.
“I always expect injuries during the season,” Guardiola said in the Premier League with Newcastle on Saturday.
“You see the same thing in Tottenham, Arsenal at the present time, most teams except Liverpool that all this season was very stable in these terms. Real Madrid also. Many teams.
“This is what happens when the season accumulates by the season by the season. It is like what happened with Manu (Akanji), the body says,” It is enough. “
“The solution is to prevent this? I think Jurgen Klopp has said this in the past. It is the calendar. I don’t see another reason for the presence of many injuries.”
Guardiola rejected the proposal that reducing the number of clubs in the Premier League may be a solution.
“It will not happen that there are less matches than the Premier League,” he said. “The Carabau Cup will continue.
“The only solution is that there are 40 players in the team. It is impossible. Business for clubs. How do you keep 40 salaries and transfer? It is impossible.”
Manchester City injury problems this season began with Rodri’s rupture in the front cruciate ligament in their 2-2 draw with Arsenal in September and contributed to his bad campaign.
In addition to the sorcery of their local and European obligations this season, they face the possibility of traveling to the United States to compete in the FIFA World Cup between June and July.
“It is a big question,” Guardiola said when asked about the type of team that he will be able to transfer to that tournament.
“I would like to give you an answer, but I don’t know.
“My analysis is very simple. The body talks about itself, and says,” It is enough. “You can say,” Give me the heart! “But the body says,” No, no, I need to rest, otherwise it will be injured. “
Use Guardiola Kevin de Bruyne as an example of a player struggling to manage the table.
“Kevin was one of the players who played most of the games for eight or nine years, as he played every three days and made an incredible effort with distances, physical, running, and attacking channels with Fernandinho and Rodri.
“He can do that, but now [33] He is years old and comes from a five -month injury last season. This is not the same. Why? Because the body was injured for five months.
“When that happens, I go to holidays, but the players go to the national team, to play the World Cup, or the new competition by the European Football Association in the season [the UEFA Nations League].
“It is not a matter of managers or Vizius. It is just a quantity of games. The bodies say,” I am tired. “
Who will get 100 points or win four respectively? I am waiting … ”
Guardiola was a challenge on the issue of city conflicts this year, as he insisted that standard standards that were set on his part in previous years would be impossible on any side that is repeated with the continuation of the Premier League level.
“What I said several times for the players and the club is that within nine years we had only three bad months,” he said.
So when people say, “Oh Pep, what happened? “I say, no, no, what He has It happened! This is the problem. This is not normal. Not now or in the past.
“Who will do 100 points now, in modern football? I am waiting. Or the fourth [Premier Leagues] respectively? I am waiting. With Bournemouth, with Fulham, with wolves …
“I asked Gondo [Ilkay Gundogan] Yesterday, two years ago I was here, I was one year in Barcelona and now I went back here one year. Did something change in the Premier League? He said, “Widely.”
“I said,” was it different in only one year? And he said, “Do not believe.”
“Did you see Liverpool this season? They cannot really do 100 points. Ninety -nine but not 100. We look at the season they did.
“It is not an argument for defending what we have done in the past three months. Many things have happened. But it puts them in the right quorum.
“What we have done in the past is not repeated. It will be very difficult to be consistent for many years, and now we realize it. I can expect a decrease, but not as it is now.
“This is the reality. We have to accept it. We have to accept criticism and bad moments. What can you do?
“When we were 1-0 or 2-0 in the past, the opponents were not close; not in our box, on the mid-road line. Now, we are not good at it. We risk and make the usual mistakes of this team.
“We are in the situation in which we take care of because we are not good enough. If Madrid recovers from the two goals that we give, then this is because we are not good enough. Accept it and move forward.”
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