I know!!
I’m not saying even the highest level. It’s more rare to see an elite athlete retired at 32 though. What other players have retired that young that isn’t injury forced? 32 isn’t that old
Very mind blowing!
In the report, there is a wow visual of Jude’s minutes (club & country) at age 20 v other players at age 20, but here is the data:
- 829 Beckham
- 2,853 Gerrard
- 3,477 Lampard
- 9,187 Owen
- 10,989 Rooney
- 14,445 Jude
Or, hear me out, the managers actually use all the players in their 23 man squads or whatever it is, millionaires complaining about playing too much football is killing me off at this point
Yeah and they likely see lower team games as crucial for getting career stats. If they only play against bigger teams, their individual stats will drop off.
Kind of odd how basketball has the exact opposite problem, which I imagine comes from the fact that the regular season doesn’t really matter to them
Then be prepared to give up a lot of money. Players were all in favor of VAR so with that came naturally longer matches with more net play time. This is what happens.
Trade places with you any day bud
The back-to-back appearance percentages for the players profiled in the report is pretty alarming so I hope they can figure out a viable solution.
Get rid of the pointless domestic cups which hardly pay anything and just risk top flight players against 2nd div teams.
Obviously we play Tchouaméni matches
teehee
With how much they get paid, and they get the best physical treatment, facilities, chefs etc.
I’d be playing for all that no problem
Lol it’s how I run my career mode. Somehow I still get a couple of injuries a year. Game hates me.
I agree to a point. This is only really a problem for the absolute top players. There’s maybe 20-30 eredivisie players who always start, play in Europe and start for their country. The other 400-500 players or so could probably care less, their load is fine. Figures may be different in the PL or La Liga but it’s still going to be a problem for a small percentage. So it will be difficult to get everyone to agree to this.
Ridiculous that a kid who earned a $10m/year contract based on <100 matches in his career complains about the number of matches being played.
These guys play football, get the life of luxury, free cars, villas, adoration of millions, and yet all you hear is about too many matches.
You don’t even have to go far deep to see how delusional this is. Ask any League 1, 2, etc. player about this and they’d laugh you out of the room for the simple fact that this problem exists for 0.5% of the players, all of whom are multimillionaires.
And yet, somehow, people feel sorry for them.