Last April, Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola sounded the alarm, complaining that UEFA and FIFA were "killing" the players by scheduling too many games with not enough recovery time. "No player can sustain, not just [the] physicality, [but also the] mentality to be ready every day to compete against opponents to win the game."
Earlier this week, Kevin De Bruyne, one of Guardiola's players at City, said he played with two painkilling injections against Italy at Euro 2020 and that "if I'd known beforehand what it would do to my ankle, I wouldn't have played.