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 21 will help you avoid making that fatal mistake. To be clear, these are lists of players that you DO NOT WANT TO BUY in FM2021. Avoid signing these players in Football Manager 2021 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 2021 but they are all susceptible to injuries and likely to get injured alot in FM21. Avoid signing these players in FM2021.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Eden Hazard 29 AM (RLC) £407k £67m £123m 30-06-2024
Thiago (Thiago Alcântara do Nascimento) 29 DM, M/AM (C) £200k £55m £50m 30-06-2024
Douglas Costa (Douglas Costa de Souza) 29 M (RL), AM (RLC) £195k £39m £49m 30-06-2022
Giorgio Chiellini 35 D (C) £114k £3m £3m 30-06-2021
Ousmane Dembélé 23 M/AM (RL) £212k £50m £98m 30-06-2022
James Rodríguez 29 M/AM (RLC) £140k £35m £76m 30-06-2022
Dani Carvajal 28 D (RL), WB (R) £163k £28m £25m 30-06-2022
Marco Reus 31 M (RL), AM (RLC) £210k £46m £300m 30-06-2023
Sergio Asenjo 31 GK £44k £20m £300m 30-06-2022
Alexis Sánchez 31 AM (RL), ST (C) £187k £14m £25m 30-06-2023
Stefano Sensi 24 DM, M/AM (C) £65k £18m £32m 30-06-2024
Samuel Umtiti 26 D (C) £212k £21m £19m 30-06-2023
Gareth Bale 31 M (L), AM (RLC), ST (C) £564k £18m £10m 30-06-2022
Adam Lallana 32 DM, M/AM (RLC) £60k £18m £300m 30-06-2023
Daniele De Rossi 37
Rafinha (Rafael Alcântara do Nascimento) 27 M/AM (RC) £91k £21m £23m 30-06-2023
Sami Khedira 33 DM, M (C) £39k £6m £13m 30-06-2021
Eric Bailly 26 D (C) £85k £27m £24m 30-06-2022
Lars Bender 31 D/WB (R), DM, M (C) £70k £9m £10m 30-06-2021
Ezequiel Garay 33 D (C) £0 £0
Mattia De Sciglio 27 D/WB (RL) £98k £6m £3m 30-06-2022
Marcelo (Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior) 32 D/WB/M (L) £266k £12m £11m 30-06-2022
Erik Lamela 28 AM (RLC) £80k £28m £25m 30-06-2022
David Zurutuza 34 M/AM C
Jean-Philippe Gbamin 24 D (C), DM, M (C) £75k £25m £27m 30-06-2024
Stevan Jovetić 30 AM (C), ST (C) £59k £8m £8m 30-06-2021

There are some of the best wonderkids (players with a high potential ability attribute) in Football Manager 2021 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 21 career. They may be good young players, but seriously, avoid signing these injury prone wonderkids in Football Manager 2021.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Dan-Axel Zagadou 21 D (C) £35k £6m £69m 30-06-2022
Willem Geubbels 18 AM (RL), ST (C) £23k £1m £5m 30-06-2023
Nikolas Nartey 20 DM, M/AM (C) £4k £367k £3m 30-06-2023
Victor Bobsin (Victor Bobsin Pereira) 20 DM, M (C) £843 £69k £4m 31-12-2021

You can pick up all of these players as free transfers in Football Manager 2021, but be warned, they each have a high injury proneness rating in Football Manager 2021 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 FM21 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
Daniele De Rossi 37
Ezequiel Garay 33 D (C) £0 £0
David Zurutuza 34 M/AM C
Bruno (Bruno Soriano) 36 DM, M C
Víctor Valdés 39
Martin Skrtel 35 D (C) £0 £0
Daniel Sturridge 30 ST (C) £0 £0
Imanol Agirretxe 34
Wilfried Bony 31 ST (C) £0 £0
Nicolás Pareja 37 D C
Borja Ekiza 32 D C
Bakary Sako 32 M/AM (RL) £0 £0
Jozo Simunovic 26 D (C) £0 £0
Wellington (Wellington Aparecido Martins) 29 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Iván (Iván López Mendoza) 26 D/WB (R) £0 £0
Samir Nasri 33 M/AM (RLC) £0 £0
Juan Pablo Ángel 45
Luis Carlos Ruiz 33 AM (RLC), ST (C) £0 £0
Breno (Breno Vinícius Borges) 30 D (C) £0 £0
Víctor Vázquez 33 M/AM (C) £0 £0
Danny Williams 31 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Dedé (Anderson Vital da Silva) 32 D (C) £0 £0
Alejandro Guerra 35 M (C), AM (RC) £0 £0
Diego Cagna 50
Marcelo Goiano (Marcelo Augusto Ferreira Teixeira) 32 D/WB (R) £0 £0
Renê Júnior (Renê dos Santos Júnior) 30 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Wellington Nem (Wellington Silva Sanches Aguiar) 28 AM (RLC) £0 £0
Sandro (Sandro Ranieri Guimarães Cordeiro) 31 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Macnelly Torres 35 AM (C), ST (C) £0 £0
Greg Garza 28 D (L) £0 £0
Juan Ignacio González 36 D C £27k £24k
Franck Ohandza 28 AM (RL), ST (C) £0 £0
Dame N'Doye 35 ST (C) £0 £0
Christian Gómez 46
Douglas Sequeira 43
Francis (Francisco Guerrero) 24 D/WB (R) £0 £0
Keirrison (Keirrison de Souza Carneiro) 31 ST (C) £0 £0
Cristian Nasuti 38
Matías Fernández 34 M/AM (C) £0 £0
Maicosuel (Maicosuel Reginaldo de Matos) 34 AM (RLC) £0 £0
Gonzalo Colsa 41
Esteban González 42
Mauro Cetto 38
Alberto Rodríguez 36 D (C) £0 £0
Jorge Valdivia 36 AM (C) £0 £0
Juan Valera 36
Shawn Parker 27 M (R), AM (RL), ST (C) £0 £0
Andy Najar 27 D/WB (R), DM, M (RC), AM (R) £0 £0
Miguel Torres 35 D RLC £0 £0
Eyong Enoh 34 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Jander (Jander Ribeiro Santana) 32 D/WB/AM (L) £0 £0
Ricardo Ferreira 27 D (C) £0 £0
Mehmet Ekici 30 DM, M/AM (C) £0 £0
Ashley Richards 29 D (RL), WB (R) £0 £0
Boukary Dramé 35 D/WB/M (L) £0 £0
Javier Gandolfi 40 D C £82k £59k
Luciano Civelli 34
Oscar Ahumada 38
Jairo Castillo 43
Frickson Erazo 32 D C £85k £300m
Iván Bulos 27 ST (C) £0 £0
Ivo Ilicevic 33 M/AM (RL) £0 £0
Paul Robinson 41
Luis Tipton 27 D/WB (L) £0 £0
Victor Anichebe 32 AM (L), ST (C) £0 £0
Cléo (Cléverson Gabriel Córdova) 34 ST (C) £0 £0
Nicklas Bendtner 32 ST (C) £0 £0
Martín Aguirre 39
Cristian Ceballos 27 AM (RLC) £0 £0
Léo Morais (Leonardo Moreira Morais) 28 D/WB (R) £0 £0
Isaac Vorsah 32 D (C), DM £0 £0
Anderson Aquino (Anderson Angus Aquino) 33 AM (C), ST (C) £0 £0
Tim Hoogland 35 D (RC), DM £0 £0
Almen Abdi 33 M/AM (C) £0 £0
Nelson Haedo 36 ST (C) £0 £0
Iván Corredor 37
Tressor Moreno 42
James Collins 36 D (C) £0 £0
Tom Adeyemi 29 DM, M C
Jason Culina 40
David Ramírez 40
Juan Carlos Menseguez 37
Nicolas Lombaerts 35 D C
Oscar Giménez 30 ST (C) £0 £0
Emmanuel Emenike 33 ST (C) £0 £0
Mouaad Madri 30 AM (R), ST (C) £0 £0
Moustapha Bayal 34 D (C), DM £0 £0
Dossa Júnior 33 D (C) £0 £0
Jackson Martínez 34 ST £0 £0
Gojko Kačar 33 D (C), DM, M (C) £0 £0
Miguel Caneo 37 AM C £0 £0
Juan Manuel Herbella 42
Diego Placente 43
Matthew Rusike 30 M (R), AM (RC), ST (C) £0 £0
Aboubakar Oumarou 33 AM (RL), ST (C) £0 £0
Uilson (Uilson Pedruzzi de Oliveira) 26 GK £0 £0
Leonardo Sánchez 33 D (C) £0 £0
Juan Albín 34 AM (LC), ST (C) £0 £0
Giuseppe Rossi 33 ST (C) £0 £0
Christopher Samba 36
Joel Barbosa 38
Brad Evans 35
Yaya Soumahoro 30 AM (RLC), ST (C) £0 £0
Juninho Quixadá (Pedro Julião Azevedo Júnior) 34 M/AM (C), ST (C) £0 £0
Ayub Masika 27 AM (RL) £0 £0
Paulinho (Paulo Sérgio Betanin) 34 ST (C) £0 £0
Ernesto Galán 34 D (RC) £0 £0
Felipe Lopes (Felipe Aliste Lopes) 32 D (C) £0 £0
Andrés Sánchez 32 D (C) £0 £0
David Llanos 31 ST (C) £0 £0
Masahudu Alhassan 27 D/WB/M (L) £0 £0
Josh McEachran 27 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Alexander Farnerud 36 M (LC), AM (C) £0 £0
Dickson Choto 39
Bennard Kumordzi 35 D (C), DM, M (C) £0 £0
Adrián López 34
Pablo Amo (Pablo Amo) 43
Mourad Meghni 36
Justo Villar 43
Luis Mosquera 33 M/AM (C) £0 £0
Anthony Jackson-Hamel 26 ST (C) £0 £0
Eldin Hadzic 28 M (L), AM (LC) £0 £0
Miguel Ángel Nieto 34 M/AM (RL) £0 £0
George Thorne 27 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Willian Rocha (Willian Pereira da Rocha) 31 D (C), DM, M (C) £0 £0
Anderson Pedra (Anderson Carvalho Trindade) 37 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Ayoub El Khaliqi 33 D/WB (R) £0 £0
Mohammed Rabiu 30 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Armand Traoré 30 D/WB/M (L) £0 £0
Carlos Martínez (Carlos Martínez Díez) 34 D/WB (R) £0 £0
Gabriel Santos (Gabriel dos Santos Nascimento) 37 D (C) £0 £0
Mario González 37
Julian Koch 29 D (R), DM, M (C) £0 £0
Kevin Kratz 33 DM, M/AM (C) £0 £0
Germán Mandarino 35 D/WB (R), M (C), AM (R) £0 £0
César Delgado 39 AM RLC, ST
Charles-André Doudin 33 M (C), AM (RLC) £0 £0
Dario Jertec 34 DM, M (RC), AM (C) £0 £0
Madson (Madson Formagini Caridade) 34 M (C), AM (RLC), ST (C) £0 £0
José Devaca 38
Daniel Jarl 28 D (C) £0 £0
Nixon (Nixson Darlanio Reis Cardoso) 28 ST (C) £0 £0
Jones Carioca (Jones da Silva Lopes) 31 AM (RC), ST (C) £0 £0
Alex Amado (Alex Broch Amado) 33 AM (L), ST (C) £0 £0
Jonathan Reis (Jonathan Jackson de Lima Reis) 31 ST (C) £0 £0
Guido Milán 33 D (C) £0 £0
Rodolfo Gamarra 31 AM (RLC) £0 £0
Omar Arellano 33 D/M/AM (R) £0 £0
Enrique Meza 34 D (C) £0 £0
Alfredo Cano 38
Nicolas Douchez 40
Aleksandr Kokko 33 ST (C) £0 £0
Naylhor (Naylhor Bispo de Souza Júnior) 33 D (C) £0 £0
Mathias Bossaerts 24 D (RC), WB (R) £0 £0
Antonio Olvera 34 D (LC) £0 £0
Rubin Okotie 33 ST £0 £0
Arouca (Marcos Arouca da Silva) 33 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Ronald García 40
Fernando Crosa 42
Melvyn Lorenzen 25 M/AM (L), ST (C) £0 £0
Elyeser (Elyeser Maciel da Silva) 30 DM, M (C) £0 £0
Joel Acosta 29 M/AM (RL), ST (C) £0 £0
Gergely Rudolf 35
Andrea Barzagli 39
Florent Sinama-Pongolle 36
Oriol (Oriol Lozano) 39
Ramón Cardozo 34 ST (C) £0 £0
Pablo Alcolea 31 GK £0 £0
Lacina Traoré 30 ST (C) £0 £0
Andréa Fileccia 28 AM (R), ST (C) £0 £0
Selim Bouadla 31 M/AM (LC) £0 £0
Felipe (Felipe Trevizan Martins) 33 D (C) £0 £0
Mohamed Soumaré 24 AM (RC) £0 £0
Steve Davies 32 ST (C) £0 £0
Alex Bruce 36 D C £0 £0
Pedro Tavima 35 D C, DM £0 £0
Johan Absalonsen 35 M/AM L, ST £18k £13k
Lee Sang-Hyub (Sang-Hyub Lee) 34
Diego Crosa 44
Michelangelo Albertazzi 29 D (LC) £0 £0
Damián Gómez 30 AM (RLC), ST (C) £0 £0
Yassine Salhi 32 AM (LC), ST (C) £0 £0
Diego Rodríguez 33 D (L) £0 £0
Sebastian Schachten 35 D/WB (RL) £0 £0
Choi Sung-Hwan (Sung-Hwan Choi) 39
Mariano Toedtli 44
Carlos Gamarra 28 GK £0 £0
Diego Basto 32 M/AM (LC) £0 £0
Hwang Do-Yeon (Do-Yeon Hwang) 29 D (LC) £0 £0
Vamouti Diomandé 29 AM (LC), ST (C) £0 £0
Ismail Kouchame 36 DM, M/AM (C) £0 £0
Vinícius Pacheco (Vinícius Pacheco dos Santos) 34 M (L), AM (LC) £0 £0
Igor Portnyagin 31 ST (C) £0 £0
Antonio Robles 42 D RC
Victor Sikora 42
Sergio Almirón 40
Jonatan Schulze 28 D/WB (L) £0 £0
Marvin Ogunjimi 32 ST (C) £0 £0
József Kiprich 57
Laurent Leroy 44

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