Gavi played around 11,000 minutes of football over the last 2.5 years as a teenager. It’s NOT only de la Fuente’s fault. Xavi has to be blamed for overplaying the kid just as Koeman did with Pedri.
Gavi played around 11,000 minutes of football over the last 2.5 years.
You can't put this much strain on a teenager pic.twitter.com/l5xLemiNoi
— Neil Mac (@NeilMac555) November 20, 2023
by Caspoor11
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This is what happens when you have to win and the squad depth just isn’t there
Fuck off.
Clubs don’t get as many options as national teams do. They inherently have a small selection of players to choose from and far more games that are genuinely competitive. National teams can easily change a player out for someone else due to fatigue. You can’t do that at Barca, Real Madrid or Atleti.
As soon as this game was redundant Spain should’ve rotated everyone, and this should be the case for basically every game that is redundant, the latter games in the CL group stages for example.
It’s their job to win games and gavi is the best so obviously you have to play him. I don’t blame them too much. I put more blame on how many matches these players are playing. Remember it’s just not Barca these injuries are happening , this is like the worst season I’ve seen ever of injuries
Jesus stfu, always the same with the players being overplayed as excuse for injuries
Oh yes, let’s blame Xavi for Gavi sustaining an injury that has nothing to do with playing time.
I’m not denying the fact that these young players have been overplayed, which they shouldn’t have, and the blame should lie on multiple parties, particularly on the authorities who have ramped up the number of games to such an extent that every other player is getting injured.
However, targeting Xavi, someone who already has a *very* limited roster and who is required to provide results week in and week out, or he will get the stick, for this injury is the height of tomfoolery and reeks of the agenda that’s been rampant against him since the start of this season.
It’s management’s fault you dumb fuck. If they had been competent, Xavi wouldn’t have to play with a bunch of kids.
People shouldn’t even blame de la fuente or Spain to be honest. It was bound to happen, the schedules are crazy and they take their tolls on the players. Game intensity is higher than it’s ever been, and if on top were increasing slowly number of official games then yes, you’ll have these types of injuries.
Players like Mbappe or Haaland have also been playing for years now and they’re basically veterans at 23-25 years old. That’s just the game nowadays.
Playing less will not prevent ACL tears.
Barça “fans”: sabotaging their own club since ancient times. Those who blame Xavi for everything: you guys are as toxic for Barça as Bartomeu was.
and here you are glad you have a chance to blame something on Xavi one more time.
bro stfu xavi only plays him when he’s not already hurt de la fucker did
To be fair, gavi is subbed off in most games
A new midfielder likely to come in January?
First thing they decide to do is throw it on Xavi lol it’s not the winter World Cup, the constant international play from playing in euros, to all these other useless NT tourneys and qualifiers. How bout you greedy fucks decide to not make up tournaments to line your pockets at the expense of the players health.
Honestly, as a physiotherapist, I can say that ACL injuries rarely relate to being overplayed. Unless you have an active hamstring issue (it’s the muscle that protects the ACL the most), ACL injuries are usually just shit luck.