Our fitness and medical department needs to start being questioned. This is crazy.
I have to echo this. Last season we seemed to have finally put our finger on something with Matip and Keita finally managing to play more than 3 games without visiting the physio's room. The former played the whole season with no injuries as far as I can remember. This morning Matip joins the rest of the injured for what is, already, his second spell injured and we are not even 9 games into the PL campaign.
What is happening? In addition to Keita and Matip we are also missing Robertson, Diaz, TAA, Jones, Arthur, and Ox. We also had to wait 2 months to see Jota and Ramsay reintegrate the team.
Okay, Keita and Matip are injury prone, altough like I mentioned above, last season proved we could manage them in a way that kept them injury-free (Keita's injuries were from nasty tackles like the one against Utd). However, none of Robertson, Jota, Diaz, TAA, and Jones are particularly injury prone. Even Arthur, a quick glance of his injury record with Juventus indicates he's not particularly injury prone despite arriving here having missed preseason through injury. He starts training and back he goes to the sideline.
I had the same question before last seasons and though oh wow, we finally changed something and its working, we have a similar injury rate as other teams. It seems were back to missing half the squad all season.
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