Injuries, injuries, injuries. That‘s the key word in modern football. Due to high demands and loads of games in the footballing schedule, injuries have become the every-day problem for clubs, managers and players. After all, the clubs have became the victims of their own desire for more money, while FIFA and UEFA want their piece of the cake too, and they are just inventing new competitions in order to get more games and more money (UEFA Nations League, extended FIFA Club World Cup). There is virtually no club in Europe which hasn‘t have problems with injuries, apart from maybe Liverpool and Barca this season, but those examples are just rare exceptions, and after all, the Reds had their amount of injuries last year. This season, it‘s mostly Tottenham, Manchester United and Arsenal.Mikel Arteta has had to navigate plenty of problems this season… pic.twitter.com/IRHwqwbmj3— Football on TNT Sports (@footballontnt) April 4, 2025 The Gunners have lost their Premier League race a couple of months ago, mainly due to Liverpool‘s excellent form and lack of any injuries, but also due to their lack of a proper striker, but still, things have might been better if their injury list have been shorter. Now they are playing in the Champions League quarterfinal with Real Madrid, while in England, they are trying to secure the second place from Nottingham Forest, and all that without some key players. Forwards Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus are currently missing for the rest of the season and defender Gabriel Magalhaes‘ season is also over after the Fulham game. Before that, players like Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Ben White and Gabriel Martinelli, all first 11 footballers were all absent for long periods.As awful as it gets: Gabriel’s season is overAnd just like his former boss Arsene Wenger, who had ideas of his own, Mikel Arteta has a proposition for football governing bodies.“Logically if we demand the players to play more games in more competitions with more travel and more intensity, the only solution to deal with it is more players. I don’t see any other solution“ said the Spaniard.Arsenal lock horns with Barca over young NicoRotation is the word many manages don‘t want to hear, but it becomes a reality, due to the heavy schedule. Arteta gave an example of Gabriel, who felt his hamstring in November against West Ham.“We played three days later, six days later and nine days later. Three days later, he said he was ready to play with a grade 1b. He said, ‘I’m not feeling anything, I want to play’. Massive fight not to play him. Day six, ‘This one definitely I have to play’. Everybody’s like ‘There is still a risk (if he plays)’. We decided after a big fight, don’t play him. Day nine, another game – ‘This one for sure’. The doctor said: ‘There is a slight risk, he can miss five, six, seven weeks if he has an injury after that’. We decided not to play him. On day 12. he plays. But I was very tempted on day six to play him. If I would’ve played him on day six and he has the injury that he’s sustained now against Fulham and he misses four months, I would be hammered. There is an element, guys, that we cannot control. So we try to do our best“ he said.PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 31Saturday14:30: (5.20) Everton (3.60) Arsenal (1.80)17:00: (2.40) Crystal Palace (3.40) Brighton (2.95)17:00: (2.80) Ipswich (3.25) Wolverhampton (2.60)17:00: (3.20) West Ham (3.50) Bournemouth (2.35)19:30: (2.05) Aston Villa (3.60) Nott.Forest (3.90)Sunday16:00: (3.40) Brentford (3.60) Chelsea (2.20)16:00: (4.20) Fulham (3.80) Liverpool (1.90)16:00: (1.40) Tottenham (4.80) Southampton (7.75)18:30: (3.45) Man.Utd. (3.50) Man.City (2.20)Monday22:00: (6.50) Leicester (4.30) Newcastle (1.50)***odds are subject to change***
