This season was hilarious... Neuer, Starke, Raeder, Martinez, Dante, Schweinsteiger, Thiago, Kirchhoff, Götze, Lahm, Shaqiri, Robben, Ribéry, Hojbjerg, Pizarro and Mandzukic all got injured at some point of the season or are currently injured... Am I missing someone ?! I never seen anything like it, in any club whatsoever ...
I wonder if sitting Neuer out is a way to motivate the defense to be more alert and try to get them go batshit every time the opposition is even close to being able to shoot the ball.
That's 5-6 players, not 16 ... And we had players that got injured more than once, like Thiago... It's incredible that we managed to win the BL in record time and are still alive in the other 2 competitions with such a long injury streak... Props to Pep for that
Well, I don't think we should count Holger, as he wasn't available any time this season, so I didn't count him in this season injury bad omen... But I think Van Buyten got injured this season too, so that would make 17 players ...
To be fair, we have a really deep squad. He's done a great job in matching the performance of last year with so many injuries but we do have incredible amount of depth.
Yeah, I really doubt Heynckes or VanG would have been able to cope with the injuries this year in the same manner.
Not only them, but I can't think of any other top coach that would do it either. Klopp, Mourinho, Simeone, or anyone... In my honest opinion...
Lahm, injured?! BLASPHEMY!!!! On a serious note, when was Lahm injured?! Oh, and Contento is injured too.
So that makes NINETEEN players injured over the course of the season or currently injured ... ... LOL No way this ever happened to any team ... And the fact that despite all those injuries we won the Bundesliga with ease, are in the DFB Pokal final and in the CL semi-final says a lot about Pep ...
He's definitely a good coach. He's experimenting and trying different things, some will take time before they work and others may never work. I have no doubt that he is the right coach for Bayern though. Fantastic coach. Class human being too.