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 18 will help you avoid making that fatal mistake. To be clear, these are lists of players that you DO NOT WANT TO BUY in FM2018. Avoid signing these players in Football Manager 2018 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 2018 but they are all susceptible to injuries and likely to get injured alot in FM18. Avoid signing these players in FM2018.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Gareth Bale 27 AM RLC, F C £479k £75m £200m 30-06-2022
Arjen Robben 33 AM RL £120k £19m £52m 30-06-2018
Thiago 26 DM, AM C £205k £59m £168m 30-06-2021
Giorgio Chiellini 32 D LC £111k £24m £68m 30-06-2018
Andrés Iniesta 33 AM LC £276k £25m £70m 30-06-2020
Sami Khedira 30 DM £127k £50m £139m 30-06-2019
Vincent Kompany 31 D C, DM £150k £45m £121m 30-06-2019
Franck Ribéry 34 AM LC £273k £8m £12m 30-06-2018
Daniele De Rossi 33 DM £95k £8m £22m 30-06-2019
Alessandro Florenzi 26 D/WB R, AM RC £54k £34m £89m 30-06-2019
Stefan de Vrij 25 D C £41k £24m £63m 30-06-2018
Daniel Sturridge 27 ST £130k £32m £45m 31-05-2018
Sergio Asenjo 27 GK £43k £12m £31m 30-06-2022
Roberto Pereyra 26 AM RC £45k £29m £50m 30-06-2021
Daniel Carriço 28 D C, DM £22k £11m £15m 30-06-2018
Jack Wilshere 25 AM RLC £90k £26m £37m 30-06-2018
Kwadwo Asamoah 28 D/WB L, M LC £51k £17m £25m 30-06-2018
Enzo Pérez 31 DM £8k £5m £9m 30-06-2020
Thomas Vermaelen 31 D C £129k £10m £14m 30-06-2019
Holger Badstuber 28 D C £34k £7m £12m 30-06-2018
Phil Jones 25 D C £75k £30m £43m 30-06-2019
Emiliano Rigoni 24 AM RL £36k £9m £17m 30-06-2021
Kevin-Prince Boateng 30 AM/F C £43k £12m £21m 30-06-2020
Nicolai Jørgensen 26 AM LC, F C £13k £10m £17m 30-06-2021
Daniel Didavi 27 AM LC £68k £12m £18m 30-06-2021
Charlie Austin 27 ST £70k £20m £33m 30-06-2020
Loïc Rémy 30 AM L, ST £19k £5m £8m 30-06-2018
Gökhan Gönül 32 D/WB R £35k £3m £4m 30-06-2020
Fernando Gago 31 DM £7k £5m £8m 30-06-2020
Nicolás Tagliafico 24 D LC, M L £9k £7m £12m 30-06-2022
Aymen Abdennour 27 D C £86k £2m £2m 30-06-2019
Lazar Markovic 23 AM RLC £75k £16m £25m 30-06-2018

There are some of the best wonderkids (players with a high potential ability attribute) in Football Manager 2018 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 18 career. They may be good young players, but seriously, avoid signing these injury prone wonderkids in Football Manager 2018.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Andrey 19 DM £2k £265k £581k 31-12-2021
Nura Abdullahi 19 D/WB/M R £6k £484k £1m 30-06-2019
Federico Mattiello 21 D/WB/M RL £13k £2m £5m 30-06-2018
Philip Billing 21 DM £15k £10m £11m 30-06-2020
Jordan Rossiter 20 DM £8k £479k £1m 30-06-2020

You can pick up all of these players as free transfers in Football Manager 2018, but be warned, they each have a high injury proneness rating in Football Manager 2018 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 FM18 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
Kaká 35 AM LC £0 £0
Mirko Vucinic 33 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Nilmar 32 ST £0 £0
Marat Izmailov 34 AM RC £0 £0
Guilherme Siqueira 31 D/WB L £0 £0
Jan Kirchhoff 26 D C, DM £0 £0
Mohamed Sissoko 32 DM £0 £0
Cristian Erbes 27 DM, M RC £0 £0 £0
Chinedu Obasi 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Abou Diaby 31 AM C £0 £0
Anderson 29 AM C £0 £0 £0
Maicon 35 D/WB R £0 £0
Túlio de Melo 32 ST £0 £0
Victor Anichebe 29 AM L, ST £0 £0
Marko Basa 34 D C £0 £0
Edwin Valencia 32 DM £0 £0
Wellington Silva 29 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Harrison Otálvaro 31 AM RC £0 £0
Kalilou Traoré 29 AM RC £0 £0
Carlos Eduardo 29 AM RLC £0 £0
Martín Arzuaga 35 ST £0 £0
Jermaine Jones 35 DM £0 £0
Mohammed Rabiu 27 DM £0 £0
Daniel Ndi 21 AM C £0 £0
Mario González 33 AM RC £0 £0
Maurice Edu 31 D C, DM £0 £0
Néicer Reasco 39 D/WB RL £0 £0
Marouane Chamakh 33 ST £0 £0
Joshua Gatt 25 AM R £0 £0
Jürgen Säumel 32 DM, M LC £0 £0
Wílder Medina 36 ST £0 £0
Sotiris Ninis 27 AM RC £0 £0
Brad Evans 32 D RC, M RC £0 £0
Abdoulay Konko 33 D RLC £0 £0
Robbie Rogers 30 D RL, AM L £0 £0
Carlos Tenorio 38 ST £0 £0
José De la Cuesta 34 D C £0 £0
Waldo Ponce 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Adam Sarota 28 M RC £0 £0
Manuel Villalobos 36 AM/F C £0 £0
Collins Mbesuma 33 ST £0 £0
Boubacar Kébé 30 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Morais 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Alban Meha 31 AM RLC £0 £0
Yang Dong-Hyen 31 ST £0 £0
Jaime Jiménez 36 GK £0 £0
Carlos Alberto 32 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
David Mendieta 30 AM/F C £0 £0 £0
Juan Carlos Menseguez 33 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Fabrício 34 DM £0 £0
Gabriel 28 D C £0 £0
Leon Best 30 ST £0 £0
Roy Myrie 34 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Yaya Soumahoro 27 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Aidan White 25 D/WB/M L £0 £0
César Ibáñez 25 D/WB RL £0 £0 £0
Vincent Gragnic 34 AM C £0 £0
Matty Fryatt 31 ST £0 £0
Mauro Rosales 36 AM RC £0 £0
Masahudu Alhassan 24 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Yuriy Putrash 27 D/WB L £0 £0
Maximiliano Arias 28 D RC, DM £0 £0
Chris Schuler 29 D C £0 £0
Kelvin Wilson 31 D C £0 £0
Natan 26 AM C £0 £0
Derk Boerrigter 30 AM L £0 £0
Chris Rolfe 34 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Justin Mapp 32 AM RL £0 £0
Dickson Etuhu 35 DM £0 £0
Emanuel Morete 31 AM/F C £0 £0
Alfredo Cano 34 AM/F C £0 £0
Mourad Meghni 33 AM RC £0 £0
Makhtar Thioune 32 AM C £0 £0
Amauri 37 ST £0 £0
John Goossens 28 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Heracles 24 D/WB L £0 £0
Adil Chihi 29 AM RL £0 £0
Rovérsio 33 D C £0 £0
Ronald Zubar 31 D RC £0 £0
Luis Torrecilla 28 D/WB RL £0 £0
Didier Ya Konan 33 AM R, ST £0 £0
Adrian Nikci 27 AM L £0 £0
Carlos Gamarra 24 GK £0 £0
Ales Mejac 34 D/WB RL £0 £0
Pablo González 30 AM RL £0 £0
Seb Hines 29 D C £0 £0
Oguchi Onyewu 35 D C £0 £0
Jayro Campos 32 D C £0 £0
Antonio Fernández 31 D LC £0 £0
Matar Coly 32 ST £0 £0
Diego Basto 29 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Chris Brown 32 ST £0 £0
Marco Larsen 24 AM LC £0 £0
Ousman Jallow 28 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Igor Lolo 34 D RLC £0 £0
Eugene Pisotskyi 30 AM R £0 £0
Johan Audel 33 AM L, ST £0 £0
Gastón Machado 31 AM C £0 £0
Mohammed Tchité 33 ST £0 £0
Gaby Mudingayi 35 DM £0 £0
Abel Tamata 26 D/WB RL £0 £0
Aldair Quintana 22 GK £0 £0
Mark Bloom 29 D/WB RL £0 £0
Alejandro Carrasco 39 AM C £0 £0
Jerome Thomas 34 AM RL £0 £0
Zak Whitbread 33 D C £0 £0
Éderson 31 DM £0 £0
Jádson Viera 35 D C £0 £0
Jonathan Rodríguez 24 DM £0 £0
Diego Vergara 25 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Sinan Keskin 22 AM C £0 £0
Tebogo Monyai 37 D C £0 £0
Rudi Isaacs 31 D RC £0 £0
Júnior Paraíba 29 AM RC £0 £0
Emiliano Dudar 35 SW, D C £0 £0
Sebastian Schachten 32 D/WB RL £0 £0
Namgung Woong 33 D L £0 £0
Pascal Doubaï 25 DM £0 £0
Luan 26 D L, DM £0 £0
Rafael 30 D C £0 £0
Robbie Findley 31 ST £0 £0
Cleiton 35 D RC, DM £0 £0
Jonathan Blanes 30 AM RL £0 £0
Choi Sung-Hwan 35 D C £0 £0
Rodney Strasser 27 DM £0 £0
Jesper Rasmussen 25 AM RC £0 £0
Isaías Peralta 29 AM RLC £0 £0
Iván Macalik 29 D C £0 £0
Martin Albrechtsen 37 D RLC £0 £0
Seejou King 25 D/WB L £0 £0
Fabrizzyo 28 AM C £0 £0
Henrique Miranda 24 D/WB L £0 £0
Erik Lund 28 D/WB RL £0 £0
Chiquinho 34 AM LC £0 £0
Sandro Costa 30 AM C £0 £0
Im Kyung-Hyun 30 AM R £0 £0
Santy Hulst 29 AM/F C £0 £0
Osmar 32 WB R, DM, M RC £0 £0
Olexiy Godin 34 AM C £0 £0
Razvan Cocis 34 DM, M RC £0 £0
Gamadiel García 37 AM RLC £0 £0
Farid Talhaoui 35 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Júlio Baptista 35 AM/F C £0 £0
Adama Touré 25 AM C £0 £0
Lee Lucas 25 DM £0 £0
Alan Bagaev 26 D C £0 £0
Derick Ogbu 27 ST £0 £0
Brian Perk 27 GK £0 £0
Elrio van Heerden 33 AM RLC £0 £0
Fabiano Santacroce 30 D C £0 £0
Leandro 36 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Romulo 24 D/WB L £0 £0
Bradley Diallo 26 D LC £0 £0
Taner Yalçin 27 AM C £0 £0
Mirrai 23 AM C £0 £0
Daniel González 33 AM C £0 £0
Andriy Fedorenko 33 GK £0 £0
Danny O'Rourke 34 D RC, DM £0 £0
Nathan Coe 33 GK £0 £0
Amadou Sanyang 25 DM £0 £0
Qudus Lawal 21 ST £0 £0
Jean Carlos Solórzano 29 ST £0 £0
Ivan Bozic 33 AM R, ST £0 £0
Lee Gang-Jin 31 D C, DM £0 £0
Darko Pavicevic 30 ST £0 £0
Anes Haurdic 27 AM RLC £0 £0
Walter Tourreilles 25 D R £0 £0
Eli Babalj 25 ST £0 £0
Luciano Gigante 36 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Parfait Mbida Messi 36 AM C £0 £0
José-Alex Ikeng 29 DM £0 £0
Luis Rodríguez 32 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Denis Kolodin 35 D C £0 £0
Fernando Burgos 37 GK £0 £0
Lee Yo-Han 31 D C, DM £0 £0
Adiel 36 AM RC £0 £0
Diego Marangon 30 DM £0 £0
Paulo Renato 30 SW, D C £0 £0
Simen Brenne 36 AM C £0 £0
Raoul Ngadrira 27 AM L, ST £0 £0
Christian Myklebust 25 AM R, ST £0 £0
Babatounde Bello 27 AM C £0 £0
Miles Addison 28 D C £0 £0
Willem Ofori-Appiah 23 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
José Fernando Marqués 32 AM RC £0 £0
Darren Ward 38 D C £0 £0
Alejandro Mena 34 D C £0 £0
Fernandinho 36 AM/F C £0 £0
André Marques 29 D/M L £0 £0
Maximiliano Asís 30 AM L, ST £0 £0
Fortune Udo 29 ST £0 £0
Patricio Schwob 31 ST £0 £0
Marcos Ramírez 34 D C £0 £0
Frazer Richardson 34 D R £0 £0
Davit Devdariani 29 AM LC £0 £0
Héber Arriola 36 ST £0 £0
Ricardo Fuller 37 ST £0 £0
Franco Iberra 24 AM L £0 £0
Palmeira 27 D RC £0 £0
Jacob Blyth 24 ST £0 £0

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