Rivalry aside it's insane watching Arsenal work Saka into the ground Same thing UTD did to Rashford, football is gonna use that kid up and spit him out with chronic pain at 25, saying he's "lost his love of the game" or whatever - ThreadSky

yohanes13.bsky.social • 60 days ago

Rivalry aside it's insane watching Arsenal work Saka into the ground

Same thing UTD did to Rashford, football is gonna use that kid up and spit him out with chronic pain at 25, saying he's "lost his love of the game" or whatever

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drjimmy12.bsky.social•60 days ago

Yet again, it's a hammie!
To my mind, these pitches are to blame.
Playing and training, there's just no 'give' in them, which means no respite for the player.

mickeygif.bsky.social•60 days ago

Modern football is killing players careers sadly.

notthatmilo.bsky.social•60 days ago

I agree. I really think that most players have a set number of miles on the clock and that hammering when they're young is just cutting their career short

aarontunney.bsky.social•60 days ago

💯. If a player manages ten years of top flight football then they’ve done well. As a Spurs fan, look at players who came through young - Lennon, Dele, arguably even Bale. The mental and physical toll is enormous.

notsoskinnypete.bsky.social•60 days ago

Sterling too. Completely burnt out by 26.

jilllewis33.bsky.social•60 days ago

Norman Whiteside always comes to mind with this sort of discussion. There are exceptions like Stevie P & Milner. Starting really young, as you're saying, most bodies can't take it.

notthatmilo.bsky.social•60 days ago

Owen and Rooney were shadows of the players they had been by their late 20s

jilllewis33.bsky.social•60 days ago

Owen even earlier I'd argue. Fowler too. Owen at 17 18 had a touch of Greaves about him. I'd argue that even in his early 20s he'd already started going backwards.

mgreenaw.bsky.social•60 days ago

It was the hamstrings I think that did for Owen.

mgreenaw.bsky.social•60 days ago

And Fowler.

jilllewis33.bsky.social•60 days ago

Great minds!

jilllewis33.bsky.social•60 days ago

We very much agree on the problem, tho we disagree on the solution. The sad thing is just about anybody with half a brain who watches football can see there's a problem. There are a variety of possible solutions, none of which looks like being adopted because of pure greed. Game's so broken.

notthatmilo.bsky.social•60 days ago

If we wanted to bring English football in line with most European leagues we'd reduce the PL to 18 teams and bin off the league cup.

jilllewis33.bsky.social•60 days ago

I understand that argument & realise that may be more doable. My position is why should we when the problem is the number of non domestic games which are a problem created by both FIFA & UEFA. Both organisations need binning & non domestic football needs a complete rethink.

drjimmy12.bsky.social•60 days ago

FIFA & UEFA have become the real problem.
Seemingly, trying to out do each other, at the detriment to both the game and the players

notthatmilo.bsky.social•60 days ago

Part of the problem is the English clubs play more domestic games than most European clubs.

I get what you are saying but clubs are never going to support reducing the number of European fixtures, so it is a dead end.

jilllewis33.bsky.social•60 days ago

The clubs will never do anything to reduce their revenue, full stop! The only hope is a player revolt.

yohanes13.bsky.social•60 days ago

I think your 100% right, also (I'm no physio etc near in mind) surely there's a limit on major surgeries the body can take and still perform at the highest level

I just don't see how the body can handle the trauma of it

One more symptom of football eating itself

notthatmilo.bsky.social•60 days ago

It's one of the reasons we need to be very careful with Mikey Moore

yohanes13.bsky.social•60 days ago

Yeah everyone is so desperate to start grinding him into the ground, just let him grow up ffs

notthatmilo.bsky.social•60 days ago

I really think that football needs to introduce limits on the number of minutes players can play, if they won't reduce the number of games

bankruptspurs.bsky.social•60 days ago

Limits on squad numbers/quotas are going to have to change, because the amount of games is never going to fall. Managers that last an absolute maximum of 2-3 years aren’t going to cope with injuries by blooding more youngsters - they will just grind fit players into dust to try and save their jobs.

notsoskinnypete.bsky.social•60 days ago

I just looked it up. He has played over 320 professional games. He only turned 23 in September. Arteta flogs him to death. Even in their carabou cup game he came on for 20 mins. This hamstring injury was a ticking time bomb.

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