Guardiola, fed up with the calendar, gave Courtois and Militao as examples

Pep Guardiola expressed his solidarity with Madrid and gave as an example the serious injuries suffered by Thibaut Courtois and Eder Militao in recent days to denounce the cruelty of an increasingly demanding calendar that does not give up and also removes one of the main its player, Kevin De Bruyne. The Belgian will be out for three to four months after suffering a hamstring injury against Burnley on the opening day of the Premier League.

“Kevin’s injury is a bitch because he’s a very important player for us. He’s back, I think they have to do the operation on him and we’re going to miss him for a few months. He’s a very special player, with a different talent and his connection with Haaland and those above… but it is what it is”, Guardiola said to the Movistar microphones.

“In my first pre-season at Barça I had 25 days to prepare for the first official match against him to qualify for the Champions League that year in which we won. Now they give you four days, five days… and at the end look how many crossed”, He said in reference to the injuries to Militao and Courtois, who missed the entire season.

“They send you to Asia, to the United States, with very strong matches, derbies, big matches… and people will fall and continue to fall because ‘show must go on’ and without Courtois, there will be another one, and if Militao He is not here, well there will be another one, and if Kevin is not there, then there will be another one”, Catalan attack.

“The Champions League ends and they go with the teams for two or three weeks, next year there is the Club World Cup, go to the United States with 37 teams to play the Club World Cup when before it was the Libertadores and the Champions League . It’s too much and therefore you have to adapt, move forward, train a little, be at home a lot and have energy in the games”, explained Guardiola.