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Is this Ten Hag’s excuse for some of his players and club staff that seem incapable of healthy relationships with women and treating them like actual human beings?

Says Erik ten Hag who is allergic to rotations even in most meaningless matches.

Not that I don't agrre with him, but still.

He sent away the biggest player in football history, he received the biggest loss against their biggest rival, he destroyed the career of one of football biggest promises, he just lost against a random team from Denmark, once he gets sacked not only United, but football as a whole should feel relief

People here are all for agreeing about too many matches etc. but the next time a smaller team attempts to play defensively and "boring" against a bigger side it will all be calls for stop clocks and defending having 15 minutes added on at the end of games because "The ball was only in play X amount of minutes!"

The complete hypocritical attitudes that appeare from the same people depending on the thread title and what the sentiment is within the comment section when they arrive is very tiring.

Other than reducing teams in the top flight from 20 to 18 (like in Germany and France) what else can be done? You can’t reduce the amount of CL games, cups are single leg only until later stages.

Clearly adding more games is incredibly stupid, but I don’t see how you can reduce them.

oh so now he's an advocate for player welfare..

Ty next

I know r/soccer hates Newcastle but what’s happening to them at the moment is a poster for what’s wrong here (so are Brighton, and others, and indeed most clubs have big injury lists).

Club gets to the champions league spot for the 1st time in ages, spends basically the max allowed by FFP to try to increase the squad to cope but it’s nowhere near enough. Yesterday 10+ out after getting several back post international break. Their 25 man squad left the line up as including a 17 year old in the first 11, 3 goalkeepers on the bench, 4 kids with basically 0 prem mins and 2 semi-retired lads whose ages probably sum to 112.

If we’re not to change to less games, do away with injury time (by punishing harshly any time wasting perhaps?). Or could some forced rotation work - eg in baseball they often play 5 days in a row but have different pitchers each day. Could limit the number of starters who are allowed to play a mid-week game after playing 70+mins at the weekend.

Rotate your squad. You have some guys starting 60 games and others starting 5. That’s on the managers. I know the pressure to win is massive but that’s a cultural issue not a scheduling issue.

Laughs in Brazil schedule

There's a joke about United's playstyle and "crossed the limits of what fans can handle" somewhere

Difficult to disagree looking at the injuries. United have 7-8 injured currently and many of them key players.

He's not wrong. This is anecdotal, but the amount of non-contact muscle and ligament injuries I've seen in the past year to players that don't get a break on international duty seems genuinely unprecedented.

Nation's League needs to go. There's no need to have competitive international matches outside of WC/Continental Cups and qualifying.

No one actually gives a shit about Nation's League, but the international managers have to play their best squad available to pad their record and keep their job. Fewer competitive international matches would be better for everyone involved. Let some youngsters get a cap in a meaningless friendly and acjieve their dream of representing their country, and give the world class internationals a damn rest!