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 20 will help you avoid making that fatal mistake. To be clear, these are lists of players that you DO NOT WANT TO BUY in FM2020. Avoid signing these players in Football Manager 2020 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 2020 but they are all susceptible to injuries and likely to get injured alot in FM20. Avoid signing these players in FM2020.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Gareth Bale 29 AM RLC, F C £532k £75m £53m 30-06-2022
Giorgio Chiellini 34 D C £107k £6m £4m 30-06-2020
Thiago 28 DM, AM C £198k £64m £85m 30-06-2021
Douglas Costa 28 AM RLC £184k £57m £54m 30-06-2022
Juan Cuadrado 31 D/WB/AM R £107k £31m £26m 30-06-2022
Dani Carvajal 27 D/WB RL £137k £47m £55m 30-06-2022
Sami Khedira 32 DM £184k £24m £24m 30-06-2021
Vincent Kompany 33 D C £41k £7m £9m 30-06-2022
Alexis Sánchez 30 AM RLC, F C £400k £35m £29m 30-06-2020
Benjamin Mendy 24 D/WB L £100k £35m £37m 30-06-2023
Adam Lallana 31 DM, AM RLC £110k £25m £17m 30-06-2020
Rafinha 26 AM RC £74k £25m £22m 30-06-2020
Sergio Asenjo 30 GK £41k £18m £30m 30-06-2022
Ezequiel Garay 32 D C £83k £9m £3m 30-06-2020
Daniele De Rossi 35 DM £6k £302k £663k 30-06-2020
Faouzi Ghoulam 28 D/WB L £74k £15m £32m 30-06-2022
Eric Bailly 25 D C £85k £27m £9m 30-06-2022
Ignacio Camacho 29 DM £83k £9m £10m 30-06-2021
Mattia Perin 26 GK £70k £12m £8m 30-06-2020
Mattia De Sciglio 26 D/WB RL £92k £13m £12m 30-06-2022
Lars Bender 30 D R, DM £66k £12m £17m 30-06-2021
Mamadou Sakho 29 D C £100k £27m £22m 30-06-2021
Javier Pastore 30 AM LC £138k £16m £19m 30-06-2023
Diego Perotti 30 AM RLC £92k £13m £12m 30-06-2021
Víctor Cuesta 30 D C, DM £22k £9m £11m 30-06-2022
Mousa Dembélé 31 DM £150k £17m £5m 31-12-2021
David Zurutuza 32 AM C £13k £6m £2m 30-06-2020
Mattia Caldara 25 D C £67k £11m £15m 30-06-2020
Erik Lamela 27 AM RLC £80k £25m £19m 30-06-2022
Stevan Jovetic 29 AM/F C £54k £10m £11m 30-06-2021

There are some of the best wonderkids (players with a high potential ability attribute) in Football Manager 2020 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 20 career. They may be good young players, but seriously, avoid signing these injury prone wonderkids in Football Manager 2020.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Krystian Bielik 21 D C, DM £20k £4m £33m 30-06-2024
Willem Geubbels 17 AM RL, ST £8k £447k £13m 30-06-2023
Pietro Pellegri 18 ST £17k £1m £27m 30-06-2022
Gonçalo Costa 19 D/WB L £2k £73k £15m 30-06-2023
Nikolas Nartey 19 DM, AM C £4k £412k £6m 30-06-2020

You can pick up all of these players as free transfers in Football Manager 2020, but be warned, they each have a high injury proneness rating in Football Manager 2020 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 FM20 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
Fábio Coentrão 31 D/WB L, AM RLC £0 £3m
Fran Rico 31 DM £0 £2m
Daniel Sturridge 29 ST £0 £7m
Nicolás Pareja 35 D C £0 £550k
Borja Equiza 31 D C £0 £350k
Gum 33 D C £0 £975k
Yoann Gourcuff 32 AM C £0 £400k
Younes Kaboul 33 D C £0 £0
Didier Digard 32 DM £0 £0
Léo 27 D/WB R £0 £3m
Iván Etevenaux 29 AM R £0 £0
Guilherme 30 AM/F C £0 £400k
Tommie Hoban 25 D RLC £0 £8m
Franck Ohandza 27 AM RL, ST £0 £2m
Keirrison 30 ST £0 £0
Ezequiel Videla 31 DM £0 £0
Chinedu Obasi 33 AM R, ST £0 £120k
Frickson Erazo 31 D C £0 £140k
Eyong Enoh 33 DM £0 £30k
Paulo Henrique 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Jorge Fucile 34 D RL £0 £10k
Ivo Ilicevic 32 AM RL £0 £120k
Wílder Medina 38 ST £0 £0
Marcos González 39 D C £0 £0
Victor Anichebe 31 AM L, ST £0 £375k
Nicklas Bendtner 31 ST £0 £625k
Isaac Vorsah 31 D C, DM £0 £650k
Anderson Aquino 32 AM/F C £0 £0
Manu Del Moral 35 AM RL, ST £0 £18k
Almen Abdi 32 AM C £0 £130k
José De la Cuesta 36 D C £0 £0
James Collins 35 D C £0 £25k
Emmanuel Emenike 32 ST £0 £975k
Tom Adeyemi 27 DM £0 £450k
Christian Gartner 25 DM, AM C £0 £375k
Bennard Kumordzi 34 D C, DM £0 £3k
Gojko Kacar 32 D C, DM £0 £90k
Siphiwe Tshabalala 34 AM RLC £0 £13k
Federico Azcárate 35 D LC £0 £0
Juan Carlos Menseguez 35 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Andrés Lamas 35 D C £0 £10k
Jorge Bosmediano 28 D C £0 £190k
Yaya Soumahoro 29 AM RLC, F C £0 £375k
Paulinho 33 ST £0 £35k
Ernesto Galán 33 D RC £0 £40k
Yannick Djaló 33 AM RC, F C £0 £18k
Dmitry Torbinskiy 35 D L, DM, AM LC £0 £0
Mathias Bossaerts 22 D RC £0 £1m
Jordan Allen 24 AM RC £0 £65k
Justin Eilers 31 AM RL, ST £0 £3k
Ayoub El Khaliqi 32 D/WB R £0 £180k
Armand Traoré 29 D/WB/M L £0 £60k
Alexander Farnerud 35 AM LC £0 £0
Olexandr Kucher 36 D C £0 £50k
Asamoah Gyan 33 ST £0 £0
René Lima 34 DM £0 £0
Eduardo 36 AM RC, F C £0 £10k
Gabriel Santos 36 D C £0 £0
Julian Koch 28 D R, DM £0 £425k
Kevin Kratz 32 DM, AM C £0 £110k
Joshua Gatt 27 AM R £0 £55k
Mario González 35 AM RC £0 £0
Fabian Schönheim 32 D LC £0 £250k
Jonathan Reis 30 ST £0 £0
Alfonso Rippa 33 D C £0 £0
Jones Carioca 30 AM RC, F C £0 £3k
Philippe Senderos 34 D C £0 £5k
Manuel Villalobos 38 AM/F C £0 £0
Cédric D'Ulivo 29 D RC £0 £45k
Antonio Olvera 33 D LC £0 £0
Rubin Okotie 32 ST £0 £30k
Mohamed Sissoko 34 DM £0 £0
Maicon 37 D/WB R £0 £0
Melvyn Lorenzen 24 AM L, ST £0 £1m
Lars Sætra 27 D C £0 £10k
Chris Schuler 31 D C £0 £0
Ezequiel 28 AM RLC £0 £0
Pablo Alcolea 30 GK £0 £65k
Djordje Cotra 34 D/WB L £0 £0
Stéfano Piñho 28 AM L, ST £0 £350k
Raphael Martinho 31 AM L £0 £13k
Walter Yacob 32 D C £0 £0
Francisco Prieto 36 GK £0 £0
Maël Lépicier 33 D C, DM £0 £10k
Alex Bruce 34 D C £0 £3k
Sotiris Ninis 29 AM RC £0 £0
Florent Sinama-Pongolle 34 AM R, ST £0 £0
Diego Vergara 27 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Patricio Pérez 34 AM RC £0 £0
Carlitos 36 AM RL £0 £5k
Jesper Nyholm 25 D C £0 £180k
Lassad 33 AM/F C £0 £0
Maximiliano Arias 30 D RC, DM £0 £0
Michelangelo Albertazzi 28 D LC £0 £50k
Luan 28 D L, DM £0 £0
Damián Gómez 29 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Sebastian Schachten 34 D/WB RL £0 £0
Emiliano Dudar 37 D C £0 £0
Eduardo Morante 32 D C £0 £0
Carlos Gamarra 27 GK £0 £0
Bruno Montelongo 31 D/WB R, DM, M R £0 £0
Matej Hradecký 24 DM £0 £50k
Ismail Kouchame 35 DM, AM C £0 £0
Igor Portnyagin 30 ST £0 £70k
Christian Martínez 36 D C, DM £0 £0
Simon Silverholt 26 AM L, ST £0 £95k
Andreas Hollingen 24 M C £0 £35k
Jorge Iván Estrada 35 D/WB R £0 £0
Sebastián Ruiz Díaz 25 D C £0 £0
Qudus Lawal 23 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Sandro Costa 32 AM C £0 £0
Evariste Ngolok 30 DM £0 £0
Ever Cantero 33 ST £0 £5k
Simon Dawkins 31 AM LC £0 £40k
Damián Luna 34 AM C £0 £0
Rodrigo Mannara 39 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Marinho Donizete 38 D/WB L £0 £0
Demar Phillips 35 D/M L £0 £0
Nelson Saavedra 31 D RC £0 £0
Jannik Skov Hansen 26 AM RL £0 £0
Cidinho 26 AM RLC £0 £10k
Ndabashinze Dugary 29 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Martin Woods 33 AM LC £0 £8k
Rhett Bernstein 31 D C £0 £0
Daniel Edvardsen 28 D/WB R £0 £3k
Benjamin Schwarz 32 D LC, DM £0 £8k
Miguel Aceval 36 D LC, DM £0 £0
Keith Keane 32 D C, DM £0 £13k
Sherjill MacDonald 34 AM R, ST £0 £0
Osmán Huerta 30 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Marius Østvold 21 M C £0 £0
Max Clayton 24 AM RL, ST £0 £50k
Arlan 32 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Yuriy Putrash 29 D/WB L £0 £0
Tom Mond 27 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Bruno Andrade 30 AM RL, ST £0 £40k
Martín Rodríguez 34 D RC £0 £0
Nicolás Suárez 37 D LC, DM £0 £0
Moritz Sprenger 24 D RC £0 £10k
Adama Touré 27 AM C £0 £0
Sasa Stijepic 35 ST £0 £0
Mickael Seoudi 32 AM C £0 £0
Tomas Fabian 29 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Lúcio Curió 34 ST £0 £0
Luis Rodríguez 34 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Fernando Burgos 39 GK £0 £0
Andrew Davies 34 D C £0 £0
Anton Ferdinand 34 D C £0 £3k
Matías Donnet 39 M R £0 £0
Christos Tzanis 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Andrés Rotundo 31 DM £0 £0
Feisal Ahmed Hassan 22 AM RL, ST £0 £8k
Ansoumana Sané 23 D/WB/M L £0 £40k
Pavlo Stepanets 32 D C £0 £40k
Ryan Taylor 34 D R, M RC £0 £3k
Marc Vucinovic 30 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Antonio Fernández 33 D LC £0 £0
Patricio Schwob 33 ST £0 £0
Maximiliano Asís 32 AM L, ST £0 £0
Amine Linganzi 29 DM, AM C £0 £35k
James Wallace 27 DM £0 £28k
Marco Ramkilde 21 AM/F C £0 £120k
Alejandro Mena 36 D C £0 £0
Carlos Moreno 46 AM C £0 £0
Dwight Tiendalli 33 D/WB RL £0 £3k
Juan Delgado 24 ST £0 £10k
Kadú 28 ST £0 £0
Florent Cuvelier 26 AM C £0 £8k
Alexandr Anyukevich 27 D RL £0 £20k
Márcio 37 GK £0 £0
Luis Jiménez 23 DM £0 £0
Aleksandar Stevanovic 27 D R, DM, M LC £0 £0
Osmar 34 WB R, DM, M RC £0 £0
Mirza Halvadzic 23 AM RLC £0 £13k
Medi Dresevic 27 D C, DM £0 £8k
William Atashkadeh 27 ST £0 £0
Benjamin Gleditsch 23 D/WB RL £0 £85k
Ted Smith 23 GK £0 £325k
Jone 27 ST £0 £10k
Rafael Pilões 30 ST £0 £0
Milton Belloni 22 GK £0 £0
Lucas Antonicelli 22 AM C £0 £475k
Kai Hesse 34 AM R, ST £0 £0
Gabriel Altemark-Vanneryr 33 ST £0 £0
Dean Bowditch 33 AM RLC, F C £0 £10k
Leandro Depetris 31 AM LC £0 £0
Mads Ibenfeldt 34 D C £0 £0
Alexandre D'Acol 32 ST £0 £0
Gilles Yapi Yapo 37 DM £0 £0
Sergey Kotov 37 GK £0 £0
Jonas Olsson 29 D RLC £0 £0
Sergio Pérez 31 AM/F C £0 £0
João Lima 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Anders Hostrup 29 AM R, ST £0 £0
Paul Nicholson 32 DM £0 £8k
João Paulino 35 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Pedro Baldissoni 23 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Matías Gallardo 25 D/WB R £0 £0
Adam Chicksen 27 D L £0 £55k
Adigun Salami 31 DM £0 £0

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