We need to look at fixture schedule to avoid injuries - Arteta - video Dailymotion

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said football's governing bodies need to look at the schedule to avoid causing players significant injuries

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00:00 For a few years now players, coaches and managers have been talking about their worries about

00:04 how many games they've played in the course of the season. When we look at this weekend

00:09 as well, it's literally the first weekend of the season, we see what happened to Jurgen,

00:12 there was Tyrone Mings, Kevin De Bruyne who suffered quite seriously. Is that a coincidence

00:18 or is that a result of this not being able to get in a press?

00:21 It was Buendia, it happened to Courtois, it happened to Militao as well. There is something

00:27 in the calendar. In the past you can say there have been games in the past and there have

00:31 been tours as well. The things we put in the games, the tours and the World Cup in January,

00:38 plus this, plus this, plus the international, it's a lot. It's too much for the players.

00:45 It's incredibly demanding. When you see the next 36 months of the calendar for those players,

00:50 it's just better not to look at it because it's incredible what they're going to have

00:56 to be doing. So we have to look after them. But as a club, when do you look after them?

01:02 To prioritise other competitions and then we are the ones that have to look after them.

01:08 We really need to be sitting down. But I think it's too late. At least for the next 36 months

01:12 it's too late already. So I don't know who needs to raise a voice here but there are

01:20 worries big worries on that