Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag warns participant workloads are affecting performances

Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag says gamers are struggling to carry out at constant ranges as a result of they’re being “overloaded”.

When requested to elucidate the contrasting shows, Ten Hag cited participant workloads.

“The players get overloaded and can’t bring the performances any more,” the Dutchman stated.

“We are already I think over the point of what we demand from our top players,” he added.

Ten Hag stated it was not simply his facet being affected and prompt the Manchester Metropolis workforce which drew with Arsenal on the weekend, the place Kyle Walker and John Stones had been absent, was “different” to the facet United misplaced 3-1 to final month.

“You see the levels dropping with them [Manchester City] again, it was a different team to when we faced them, so yeah the levels with teams will drop at any moment if we keep going in this process by overloading the international programme,” he stated in a information convention earlier than Thursday’s Premier League recreation in opposition to Chelsea.

“You can’t 100% avoid this, it’s impossible, it depends on certain facts. Also you have national teams and so five times a year you give the players away and you don’t have any impact.

“With some nationwide groups we now have excellent connections, we handle the programmes, however there are additionally others who do what they need and you do not have something in hand, however they’re doing that.”

Ten Hag additionally stated his gamers “do not practice too arduous” between games so as not to further increase the demands on them.

“We should be match, the requirements on this league, it’s good to be match in any other case you possibly can’t match the requirements which can be required in a recreation. We do not practice too arduous,” he defined.

The 2022 World Cup was staged in the middle of last season, leading to more fixture congestion domestically, and the United boss believes that is still having an impact.

“I do know it nonetheless has an impact, the massive variety of video games within the final 18 months, it nonetheless has an affect on our squad, the buildup on the gamers,” he stated.

Global player’s union Fifpro has said soccer must do extra to guard in opposition to “harmful ranges of fixture congestion”.

Meanwhile world governing body Fifa is expanding its Club World Cup competition, while European football’s governing body Uefa is increasing the size of the Champions League from next season.