AC Milan continue to battle against a seemingly never-ending list of injuries and it appears as though nothing has been done to address it, a report claims.
Antonio Vitiello writes in his column for MilanNews that it has been three years now that Milan have been grappling with continuous physical problems of their players, who take turns in the infirmary.
The Rossoneri are one of the teams with the highest percentage of muscle problems among the big clubs, and the latest to suffer an issue – after Fikayo Tomori and Sergino Dest – is Ismael Bennacer who will miss the derby.
It is clear that these continuous physical problems affect the team’s performance, and perhaps the most significant among them is Mike Maignan who has now been out for months. Despite all of these issues and the impact it is having, it seems nothing has been done to fix it.
Well. You probably have some names that are continually get injured. Like Rebic, Ibrahimovic who is too old, now we get Dest. And Kjaer with Florenzi, who’s carrier is near ending. When you mixed up them with players who play without rotation every 3 days, you got injury prone team.
Very soon we will read about poor club handling by RedBird.
Wrong. There are lots of reasons into it
1-Medical staff and training methods has to change. Don’t tell me a player who has nothing to do, but to train and play to get paid gets injured during training? This issues have been going on for a long time now
2-Buying injuries prone players
3-Buying aged players nothing but because to say we have this player or that
4- Hiring weirdo minded coaches. We never saw a true tactician in Milan since Carlo left(Don’t tell me cuz of $)
4- Management who does show a true long term plans to address and rectify things
Milan is a mess
Injuries are bad at Milan but injuries have increased across modern football even as squad sizes have blown out and sports science has supposedly improved.
Sure fixture lists have gone mad but not so much for teams like Milan who have struggled in Europe.
Teams used to be able to get through seasons with squads of 16, Milan currently have squad of 35 – THIRTY FIVE. We have 3 players for every position.
The Spanish teams – with their disciplined squad rules of 25 players numbered in 1-25 – seem to have fewer injuries and Barca and Real can play on multiple fronts with a core of around that magic 17-18
This is really the magic number: sub keeper, one CB covering both, one FB covering both, one CM covering both or three, and then a few options in attack to mix it up.
That was basically the Milan squad from about 02-07: Abbiati, a late 30s Costacurta covering (sometimes at FB), Ambrosini covering across the midfield including for Pirlo and Seedorf, Serginho playing down the left hand side at LB, LM and upfront, Rui Costa and Tomasson upfront.
This keeps the squad tight. Players switch in and switch out without any break in familiarity.
But for it to work the team has to avoid injuries. Sometimes I think the tendency to rotate and rely on massive squads and endless disruptions caused by transfers, make the situation worse.
I mean if you took a race horse and switched trainers every 6-12 months it would probably pick up a few injuries.
These are supposed to be elite athletes. But they’re treated like some stock you flip every few months for a quick buck.
Football and Milan need to get back to basics. A smaller squad size would force the manager to work within their limits like when Calabria moved to midfield or Kalulu moved to CB. This can bring the best out of the players and the squad, and consistent playing can reduce injuries.
Barca’s great team from about 07-17 had numerous players who regularly played over 40 games a season. Messi’s played over 770 games in 17 years of an ave 45 games a season. But he was not unique. The likes of Valdes, Pique, Busquets, Xavi, Iniesta (across midfield and attack) and Suárez player over 40 games each season too.
Milan’s injuries have worsened as its squad has ballooned. Is that a coincidence?
Your point is well thoughts out but there is something that may have been overlooked. The way the game is played has changed and training methodologies with it. Players are expected to press and run far more than their predecessors did even 10 years ago. Sports science advancement has led to faster, bigger players. This would naturally lead to more muscle injuries as it puts a strain on the body. I for one agree with you and don’t think the injuries at Milan are as different as they are elsewhere. In the modern game, players simply get injured more frequently. It is something we have to learn to accept.
Your point is well thoughts out but there is something that may have been overlooked. The way the game is played has changed and training methodologies with it. Players are expected to press and run far more than their predecessors did even 10 years ago. Sports science advancement has led to faster, bigger players. This would naturally lead to more muscle injuries as it puts a strain on the body. I for one agree with you and don’t think the injuries at Milan are as different as they are elsewhere. In the modern game, players simply get injured more frequently. It is something we have to learn to accept.
It’s not a three years problem but more than that. Remember El Shaarawy, he was always injured but only at Milan.
3 Years? Only 3 years of medical problems? It goes back way way farther than that.
I guess you became a Milan fan 3 years ago.