You mean Fabregas that barely gets a game in the Spain side ? ah i see so Fabregas is burnt out because he's basically spent 2 summers watching Spain play football ? While Xavi has played almost every game, and covers on average more ground than most at about 12k a game and we can see how knackered he is when repetedly tearing the best sides in Europe apart in the CL, sorry but the argument is complete rubbish.
As I've said above Barca and their players are the exception to the rule that the rest of Europe has deemed necessary to follow. Playing 60+ games a year, without rest is by and large a recipe for disaster.
Cesc doesn't get the summer off. He still makes appearances for Spain, still trains for them and plays competitively. So to say he does nothing for them is a gross over exaggeration. He also most importantly returns to domestic football in a wholly different league.
Beckham works his nuts off and has been playing almost constantly in some years and he's still able to play well and work his nuts off at 35/36 so im fairly sure a 19 year old can probably do it.
Beckham too took strategic holidays now and again. You can't really compare La Liga or the MLS league to the EPL.
Also, even at Madrid he only averaged around 40 domestic games per year, far less in the USA, so not what I was referring to at all.
Not everyone in Spain has always played for Barca, Villa has been pretty damn good for the last few years and while at Valencia, he was playing for the Spanish U-21's and the spanish national side on a regular basis, and didn't burn out.
Actually Villa barely played for the U21s and Valencia neither did nor were expected to go on long cup campaigns every year, and once again, still was able to rest in the summer!
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Villa's a striker, and Beckham a winger as well, not a play maker like Cesc who is fast turning into a box to box midfielder alongside as it happens Wilshere.
The spanish league players don't work less than their english counterparts, Dani Alves, covers 12-15 km per game in the CL which is much more than the likes of Rooney who is a bloody hard worker and tireless runner.
La Liga is slower paced football but the players still work as hard.
Of course they work hard, I never said they didn't. But imagine that the same work is done at a trot rather than a faster pace. Covering a greater distance is easier when it's not done as quickly week in week out. Barca also don't have the Stokes, Blackburns and Wolves to play against. Massive differences that you've obviously missed.
All in all bad examples, my point was players based in the EPL can't be expected to hit the 60 game a season barrier, not rest for consecutive summers and not at some point for their body to shut down slightly. Cesc still went to summer tournaments and trained as if he was playing domestic football. Still warmed up and made appearances. He followed that up by being injured for many games this season and being out of form in comparison to previous years.
This will repeat for Wilshere, and harm his Arsenal appearances down the line.
It's utterly stupid anyway. He's above the U21 level by a long way now what benefit to him is there in playing this summer?
Maybe if more of our players took the example of the foreign players in the EPL and stopped getting ****faced on a regular basis then maybe their fitness would be up to playing lots of games. Alcohol does untold damage to a players fitness and is the reason why so few European players drink so little if at all.
So it's now alcohol to blame lol? But Cesc for example is Spanish?
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Keep scraping around that barrel fella. All in all it simply could be summed up in the above posts. The players we look for and train are all wrong for the task. They're not good enough when they get older.
My meaning behind the title is, if for example, manchester city didn't have all their foreign players, would they have won as much, ie, won enough games to get to the FA cup final and win it. No, they wouldn't. Football should be about english born and bred players. Seems hypocritical to me that all these foreign players are allowed to infest ENGLISH football, but not allowed in the england team. Look at how many foreign players, it's a complete joke if you ask me. 
