It's exaggerated.
1. Most teams have a few players that are regularly injured. Liverpool has Keita, Thiago, Gomez, and Oxford Chamberlain. Bayern has Coman, Lucas Hernandez, Sule, Corentin, and before that guys like Thiago and so on. Chelsea has Pulisic, Loftus Cheek etc and it goes on and on.
2. Young players that are new to professional football are far more likely to get injured than experienced players. This is to do with the regularly increased intensity found in training sessions. There are studies to back this up. If a club has a young player regularly playing football, it's expected for them to get regularly injured which is why the transition from youth to professional football is so tough - all young players have to overcome this barrier.
3. Players at the tail end of their careers are more likely to get injured due to physical decline.
4. Players whom face major injuries, are more likely to experience multiple "after-effect" injuries even after they recover in multiple different parts of the body.
What Barcelona's currently facing is, in my opinion, an unlucky coincidence. Our most hyped players are either super young or/and have a long history of injuries, and thus a good portion of the current "core squad" are a combination of several demographics that are at risk. Considering our current state we're more likely to take notice of injuries as well. A couple of years back with the old guard and their squad, the number of injury prone players were restricted to about 3 or 4. The squad was usually healthy and capable of regularly playing games with little issue.
I do agree that we have an issue with physical conditioning as well, but I think our biggest problem is simply player selection. Hindsight is 20/20 but I've been saying this forever, you can't build a team on teenagers. You can't build a team on players that have been experiencing major injuries for the past 5 years either.
1. Simply not true.
Some teams have, and in these teams the med department is not working well.
Same players under a different med department stop getting injured.
Recent example?
RM last season compared to this season.
Then, the part about the injury-prone players is propaganda at its best.
Yes, there are players with more propensity to break and tear muscle.
Does this mean that they have to be permanently or almost permanently sidelined? No way
Iniesta is a good example of a WC injury prone player. When the med department was working well, he stayed whole season without injury.
At the other end, there are players who almost never get injured because of the opposite propensity.
When EVEN THESE players get injured, yes there is something wrong with the med department.
Example at Barca? Frenkie
2 is true.
But not recurring injuries, and not suffering re-lapses.
then, there is something wrong
3. No evidence for this one.
4. Neither for this
And then, you avoid talking about the elephant in the room:
When so many ex- or current Barca players, talk about the lack of intensity and duration of training sessions at Barca AND the lack of physical preparation in general, compared to other clubs they have been
you can't simply brush away that when you see the injury crisis
