“Ederson, Nathan Ake, Sergio Gomez, Rodri, and Erling Haaland were all back in ManCity training today after respective injury/fitness issues.”
Did anyone not see this coming? Seems it’s a regular occurrence where City players will say they are “injured” to miraculously recover in a week after getting to fly back early.
The real problem is UEFA/FIFA pushing for teams to start star players in meanigless games.
There is also different take, why call player like Rodri when he may be injured and when you have a lot of players waiting to get a chance to play for national team.
Same goes for Haaland. Why play semi-injured striker in a useless game when you can give a chance to someone else?
If anything it’s always better to “fake” injury than to start injured player who won’t be able to help in the end.