Whether you're looking for wonderkids or simply the best players in Football Manager, the one thing you don't want to do is sign a player thats injury prone. These lists of Injury Prone Players in FM 17 will help you avoid making that fatal mistake. To be clear, these are lists of players that you DO NOT WANT TO BUY in FM2017. Avoid signing these players in Football Manager 2017 at all costs because they all have a high hidden injury prone attribute.

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These players are some of the best players in Football Manager 2017 but they are all susceptible to injuries and likely to get injured alot in FM17. Avoid signing these players in FM2017.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Gareth Bale 26 AM RLC, F C £463k £60m £200m 29-06-2022
Arjen Robben 32 AM RL £116k £6m £18m 29-06-2018
Thiago 25 DM, AM C £149k £42m £118m 29-06-2019
Vincent Kompany 30 D C, DM £150k £20m £56m 29-06-2019
Sami Khedira 29 DM £123k £22m £59m 29-06-2019
Franck Ribéry 33 AM LC £198k £5m £13m 29-06-2018
Kevin Strootman 26 DM £86k £23m £61m 29-06-2018
Sergio Asenjo 27 GK £41k £10m £13m 29-06-2022
Daniele De Rossi 32 D C, DM £199k £2m £4m 29-06-2017
Holger Badstuber 27 D C £66k £19m £18m 30-06-2017
Kwadwo Asamoah 27 WB L, M LC £49k £19m £28m 29-06-2018
Thomas Vermaelen 30 D C £125k £7m £10m 30-06-2017
Roberto Pereyra 25 AM RC £45k £25m £43m 29-06-2021
Jack Wilshere 24 AM C £80k £22m £39m 31-05-2017
Daniel Carriço 27 D C, DM £22k £12m £17m 29-06-2018
Stevan Jovetic 26 AM LC, F C £107k £16m £39m 30-06-2017
Rodrigo Caio 22 SW, D C, DM £20k £6m £22m 13-10-2018
Phil Jones 24 D RC £75k £19m £33m 29-06-2019
Mirko Vucinic 32 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Enzo Pérez 30 DM £87k £7m £17m 29-06-2019
Fábio Coentrão 28 D/WB/M L £58k £5m £8m 29-06-2019
José Gayà 21 D/WB L £54k £10m £39m 29-06-2020
Daniel Didavi 26 AM LC £66k £14m £16m 29-06-2021
Charlie Austin 26 ST £55k £14m £21m 29-06-2020
Maxim Choupo-Moting 27 AM RL, ST £41k £10m £15m 29-06-2017
Lautaro Acosta 28 AM RL, ST £9k £3m £5m 31-12-2017
Tomas Rosicky 35 AM RLC £8k £404k £665k 29-06-2018
Kaká 34 AM LC £106k £469k £267k 31-12-2017
Emanuele Giaccherini 31 AM RLC £46k £4m £9m 29-06-2019
Aymen Abdennour 26 D C £83k £10m £21m 29-06-2020
Lazar Markovic 22 WB R, AM RLC £75k £14m £34m 30-05-2017
Jay Rodriguez 26 AM RL, ST £55k £17m £28m 29-06-2019
Gökhan Gönül 31 D/WB R £33k £1m £2m 29-06-2020

There are some of the best wonderkids (players with a high potential ability attribute) in Football Manager 2017 who also have a high injury proneness attribute. This means they are very likely to be injured and miss alot of games in your FM 17 career. They may be good young players, but seriously, avoid signing these injury prone wonderkids in Football Manager 2017.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
José Gayà 21 D/WB L £54k £10m £39m 29-06-2020
Samir 21 D C £11k £2m £5m 29-06-2021
Björn Engels 21 D C, DM £17k £7m £11m 29-06-2020
Jaymi Lee 17 D C £0 £0 £0
Marc-Oliver Kempf 21 D C £7k £3m £3m 29-06-2018
Mats Møller Dæhli 21 AM LC £17k £3m £6m 30-06-2017
Jordan Rossiter 19 DM £8k £721k £2m 29-06-2020
Maycon 18 M C £1k £1m £4m 02-02-2019
Andrey 18 DM £2k £194k £476k 03-09-2018
Julián Vitale 20 DM £4k £2m £3m 29-06-2019
Daniel Ndi 20 AM C £5k £2m £4m 29-06-2018
Philip Billing 20 DM £3k £786k £1m 29-06-2020

You can pick up all of these players as free transfers in Football Manager 2017, but be warned, they each have a high injury proneness rating in Football Manager 2017 which makes them likely to be injured alot. There's a reason they've been left as free agents in real life, because they're always injured. You might think you've picked up a bargain free transfer in FM17 but is it worth the risk? At the very least we recommend not giving these players any longer than a 1 or 2 year contract. They may be free transfer bargains but you don't want to be stuck with these injury prone players.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Mirko Vucinic 32 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Alex 34 D C £0 £0
Philippe Mexès 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Maicon 34 D/WB R £0 £0
Carlos Martins 34 AM C £0 £0
Émerson Sheik 37 AM L, ST £0 £0
Raúl Meireles 33 DM £0 £0
Flávio Ferreira 24 D C, DM £0 £0
Patricio Pérez 31 AM RC £0 £0
Piotr Trochowski 32 AM C £0 £0
Christopher Samba 32 D C £0 £0
Júlio Baptista 34 AM/F C £0 £0
Leon Andreasen 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Oleg Gusev 33 D/WB R, AM RL £0 £0
Brad Davis 34 AM RLC £0 £0
Kalilou Traoré 28 AM RC £0 £0
Aleksandrs Cauna 28 DM, M L £0 £0
Leandro Bonfim 32 AM C £0 £0
Michael Essien 33 DM £0 £0
Santiago Tréllez 26 AM R, ST £0 £0
Felipe Mattioni 27 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Ángel 35 D/WB RL £0 £0
Joshua Gatt 24 AM R £0 £0
Juan Valera 31 D/WB/M R £0 £0
René Lima 31 DM £0 £0
Henrique 33 D C £0 £0
Marouane Chamakh 32 ST £0 £0
Amauri 36 ST £0 £0
Pablo González 29 AM RL £0 £0
José Gonçalves 30 D LC £0 £0
Alex Díaz 27 D/WB L £0 £0
Fabrício 33 DM £0 £0
Heinrich Schmidtgal 30 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Adam Sarota 27 M RC £0 £0
Matías Porcari 30 AM RLC £0 £0
César Carignano 33 ST £0 £0
Botti 35 AM RC £0 £0
Ayila Yussuf 31 D C, DM £0 £0
Nelson Rivas 33 SW, D RC £0 £0
Christian Pander 32 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Justin Mapp 31 AM RL £0 £0
Boubacar Kébé 29 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Tony Hibbert 35 D R £0 £0
Garry Bocaly 28 D RC £0 £0
Héctor Reynoso 35 D C £0 £0
Tressor Moreno 37 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Adrián López 29 D C £0 £0
Gabriel 27 D C £0 £0
Yaya Soumahoro 26 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Jamison Olave 35 D C £0 £0
Roy Myrie 33 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Marcos 33 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Razvan Cocis 33 DM, M RC £0 £0
Jorge Bosmediano 25 D C £0 £0
Miguel Torres 34 AM RL £0 £0
Bruno Silva 36 D/WB R, DM, M R £0 £0
Mauro Rosales 35 AM RC £0 £0
Rodnei 30 D LC £0 £0
Thomas Manfredini 36 D C £0 £0
Adi Rocha 30 ST £0 £0
Sean St. Ledger 31 SW, D RC £0 £0
Chris Kirkland 35 GK £0 £0
Clarence Goodson 34 D C £0 £0
Marco Estrada 33 DM, M L £0 £0
Karel D'Haene 35 SW, D C £0 £0
Mariano Brau 33 D RC £0 £0
Borges 35 ST £0 £0
Gaby Mudingayi 34 DM £0 £0
Emil Lyng 26 AM RL £0 £0
Tim Janssen 30 ST £0 £0
Ivanildo 30 AM RLC £0 £0
Dickson Etuhu 34 DM £0 £0
Derk Boerrigter 29 AM L £0 £0
Luis Torrecilla 27 D/WB RL £0 £0
Rovérsio 32 D C £0 £0
Nino Pekaric 33 D C £0 £0
Braian De Barros 30 D C, DM £0 £0
Grégory Bettiol 30 AM L, ST £0 £0
Matthew Upson 37 D C £0 £0
Steven Ukoh 25 DM £0 £0
Xavier Pentecôte 29 ST £0 £0
Kang Min-Hyuk 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Robbie Findley 30 ST £0 £0
José Devaca 33 D C £0 £0
Jeroen Veldmate 27 D C £0 £0
Rodrigo Toloza 32 AM LC £0 £0
Mancini 35 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Gastón Machado 30 AM C £0 £0
Mansour 30 ST £0 £0
Francis 34 D/WB R £0 £0
Pierre de Wit 28 DM, AM C £0 £0
Julio Marchant 36 AM RC £0 £0
Matar Coly 31 ST £0 £0
Jayro Campos 31 D C £0 £0
Aldair Quintana 21 GK £0 £0
Merouane Zemmama 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Walter Yacob 29 D C £0 £0
Ustaritz 33 D C £0 £0
Ryan Taylor 31 D R, M RC £0 £0
Karlo Primorac 32 ST £0 £0
Eugene Pisotskyi 29 AM R £0 £0
Matteo Paro 33 DM £0 £0
Lúcio 37 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Luan 25 D L, DM £0 £0
Igor Lolo 33 D RLC £0 £0
Baky Koné 34 AM R, ST £0 £0
Vlado Jeknic 32 D C £0 £0
Matteo Gentili 26 D C £0 £0
Djamal 33 DM £0 £0
Sebastián Carrizo 38 DM £0 £0
Diego Vergara 24 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Sinan Keskin 21 AM C £0 £0
Zak Whitbread 32 D C £0 £0
Martín Guarino 25 D/WB L £0 £0
Damiano Ferronetti 31 D RC £0 £0
Éderson 30 DM £0 £0
Ivica Dzidic 32 D C £0 £0
Alejandro Carrasco 38 AM C £0 £0
Federico Amenta 37 D C, DM £0 £0
Pascal Doubaï 24 DM £0 £0
Namgung Woong 32 D L £0 £0
Espen Næss Lund 31 D C £0 £0
Benson Mhlongo 35 D C, DM £0 £0
Andy Johnson 35 ST £0 £0
Christian Eigler 32 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Emiliano Dudar 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Renato Dossena 29 GK £0 £0
Martin Bergvold 32 DM, M LC £0 £0
Femi Ajilore 31 DM £0 £0
Jesper Rasmussen 24 AM RC £0 £0
Peer Kluge 35 DM £0 £0
Cleiton 34 D RC, DM £0 £0
Choi Sung-Hwan 34 D C £0 £0
Jonathan Blanes 29 AM RL £0 £0
Henrique Miranda 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Jorn Vermeulen 29 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Iván Macalik 28 D C £0 £0
Liliu 26 AM R, ST £0 £0
Fabrizzyo 27 AM C £0 £0
Adama Touré 24 AM C £0 £0
Momikia Yemo 33 M C £0 £0
Genaro Snijders 26 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Sébastien Renouard 31 AM RL £0 £0
Diego Martínez 35 D C £0 £0
Marinho Donizete 35 D/WB L £0 £0
Marcus Vinícius 31 D C £0 £0
Seïd Khiter 31 AM RL £0 £0
Im Kyung-Hyun 29 AM R £0 £0
Santy Hulst 28 AM/F C £0 £0
Olexiy Godin 33 AM C £0 £0
Isa Demir 30 D/WB R £0 £0
Chiquinho 33 AM LC £0 £0
Emmanuel Boakye 31 D/WB R £0 £0
Mustapha Bangura 26 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Luciano Vera 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Ayoub Sørensen 28 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Brian Perk 26 GK £0 £0
Paddy McCourt 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Craig Henderson 29 AM RLC £0 £0
Fábio Bala 34 ST £0 £0
Emiliano Bonazzoli 37 ST £0 £0
Elrio van Heerden 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Milenko Neric 28 ST £0 £0
Leandro 35 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
José-Alex Ikeng 28 DM £0 £0
Amadou Sanyang 24 DM £0 £0
Qudus Lawal 20 ST £0 £0
Tom Söderberg 28 D C £0 £0
Zoran Rajovic 36 ST £0 £0
Darko Pavicevic 29 ST £0 £0
Danny O'Rourke 33 D RC, DM £0 £0
Richard Leite 32 AM RL £0 £0
Nathan Coe 32 GK £0 £0
Petar Bojovic 32 D LC, DM £0 £0
Walter Tourreilles 24 D R £0 £0
Shervin Radjabali-Fardi 25 D/WB RL, M L £0 £0
Ryan O'Leary 28 D C £0 £0
Lee Gang-Jin 30 D C, DM £0 £0
Manuel Turchi 36 M RL £0 £0
David Templeton 27 AM RLC £0 £0
Jaime Ruíz 32 ST £0 £0
Luis Rodríguez 31 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Sasa Ognenovski 37 D C £0 £0
John Mensah 33 D C £0 £0
Parfait Mbida Messi 35 AM C £0 £0
Lenny 28 ST £0 £0
Lee Yo-Han 30 D C, DM £0 £0
Milan Kopic 30 D LC £0 £0
Hakan Hacibektasoglu 32 DM £0 £0
Otto Fredrikson 34 GK £0 £0
Diego Marangon 29 DM £0 £0
Mark Bradley 28 D R £0 £0
Tetteh Bangura 26 ST £0 £0
André Luiz 33 D/WB RL £0 £0
Serhat Akyüz 31 D C £0 £0
Sasa Stijepic 32 ST £0 £0
Miroslav Slepicka 34 ST £0 £0
José Fernando Marqués 31 AM RC £0 £0
Lelo Mbele 28 ST £0 £0
Fortune Udo 28 ST £0 £0

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