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 22 will help you avoid making that fatal mistake. To be clear, these are lists of players that you DO NOT WANT TO BUY in FM2022. Avoid signing these players in Football Manager 2022 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 2022 but they are all susceptible to injuries and likely to get injured alot in FM22. Avoid signing these players in FM2022.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Sergio Agüero 33 AM C, ST £0 £300m
Paulo Dybala 27 AM RC, F C £222k £47m £104m 30-06-2022
José Giménez 26 D C £82k £61m £133m 30-06-2025
Eden Hazard 30 AM RLC £381k £35m £16m 30-06-2024
Marco Reus 32 AM RLC, F C £164k £300m 30-06-2023
Ousmane Dembélé 24 AM RL £287k £70m £70m 30-06-2022
Giorgio Chiellini 36 D C £91k £295m 30-06-2023
James Rodríguez 30 AM RLC £200k £7m £761k 30-06-2024
David Silva 35 AM RLC £86k £4m £9m 30-06-2022
Raphaël Guerreiro 27 D/WB L, M C £82k £35m £73m 30-06-2023
Sergio Asenjo 32 GK £41k £24m £50m 30-06-2022
Mats Hummels 32 D C £164k £300m 30-06-2023
Miralem Pjanić 31 DM, AM C £107k £34m £71m 30-06-2024
Chris Smalling 31 D C £95k £300m 30-06-2023
Arthur (Arthur Henrique Ramos de Oliveira Melo) 24 DM £125k £36m £47m 30-06-2025
Erik Lamela 29 AM RLC £51k £26m £54m 30-06-2024
Thomas Vermaelen 35 D C £0 31-12-2021
Dani Carvajal 29 D/WB R £152k £15m £14m 30-06-2025
Adam Lallana 33 DM, AM RLC £67k £300m 30-06-2023
Sami Khedira 34 DM, M C £0
Stefano Sensi 25 DM, AM C £61k £7m £6m 30-06-2024
Gareth Bale 31 AM RLC, F C £528k £5m £2m 30-06-2022
Callum Wilson 29 ST £90k £50m £60m 30-06-2024
Rafinha (Rafael Alcântara do Nascimento) 28 AM RC £69k £8m £7m 30-06-2023
Mattia De Sciglio 28 D/WB RL £91k £8m £7m 30-06-2022
Corentin Tolisso 26 DM, AM C £115k £6m £5m 30-06-2022
Aaron Ramsey 30 AM RC £175k £11m £10m 30-06-2023
Jasper Cillessen 32 GK £77k £300m 30-06-2023
David Zurutuza 34 M/AM C £0 30-06-2020
Éric Bailly 27 D C £85k £23m £21m 30-06-2024
Giovani Lo Celso 25 DM, AM LC £100k £24m £47m 30-06-2025
Asier Illarramendi 31 DM £47k £32m £62m 30-06-2023
Dan-Axel Zagadou 22 D C £33k £23m £45m 30-06-2022
Douglas Costa (Douglas Costa de Souza) 30 AM RLC £45k £3m £3m 30-06-2022

There are some of the best wonderkids (players with a high potential ability attribute) in Football Manager 2022 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 22 career. They may be good young players, but seriously, avoid signing these injury prone wonderkids in Football Manager 2022.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Jamie Bynoe-Gittens 16 AM RL £60 £11m £792k 30-06-2024
Márton Dárdai 19 D C, DM £6k £4m £9m 30-06-2025
Mateu Morey 21 D/WB R £16k £4m £8m 30-06-2024
Nikolas Nartey 21 DM, AM C £4k £6m £9m 30-06-2023

You can pick up all of these players as free transfers in Football Manager 2022, but be warned, they each have a high injury proneness rating in Football Manager 2022 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 FM22 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
Sergio Agüero 33 AM C, ST £0 £300m
Thomas Vermaelen 35 D C £0 31-12-2021
Sami Khedira 34 DM, M C £0
David Zurutuza 34 M/AM C £0 30-06-2020
Bruno (Bruno Soriano) 37 DM, M C £0
Paulo Wanchope 44 £0
Paolo Guerrero 37 ST £0 £0
Mista (Miguel Ángel Ferrer) 42 £0
Jonathan (Jonathan Cícero Moreira) 35 D/WB/M R £0 £0 28-02-2021
Maxym Kalinichenko 42 £0
Ricardo Álvarez 33 DM, M C £1m £1m
Iván (Iván López Mendoza) 27 D/WB R £0 £0
Juan Pablo Ángel 46
Romain Amalfitano 31 M C £0 £0
César (César Bernardo Dutra) 29 GK £0 £0
Diego Tardelli (Diego Tardelli Martins) 36 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 31-12-2021
Breno (Breno Vinícius Borges) 31 D C £0 £0
Winston Reid 33 D C £0 £0
Víctor Rodríguez (Víctor Rodríguez) 31 AM RLC £0 £0
Edílson (Edílson Mendes Guimarães) 34 D/WB R, DM £0 £0 31-12-2021
Marcelo Oliveira (Marcelo Oliveira Ferreira) 34 D LC, WB L, DM £0
Bernardo Romeo 43 £0
Diego Cagna 51 DM, M RC £0
Marcelo Goiano (Marcelo Augusto Ferreira Teixeira) 33 D/WB R £0 £0
Jean (Jean Raphael Vanderlei Moreira) 35 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Juan Ignacio González 37 D C £0
Franck Ohandza 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0 31-12-2019
Ilombe Mboyo 34 AM L, ST £0 £0
Dame N'Doye 36 ST £0 £0
Giovani dos Santos 32 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Luis García (Luis García Sanz) 43 £0
Christian Gómez 46 £0
Francis (Francisco Guerrero) 25 D/WB R £0 £0
Jürgen Damm 28 AM R £0 £0
Ibrahima Traoré 33 AM RL £0 £0
Sam McQueen 26 D/M/AM L £0 £602k £525k
Marcelo Larrondo 32 ST £0 £0
Fábio Coentrão 33 D/WB L, AM RLC £0 £0
Lucas Castromán 40 £0
Holger Badstuber 32 D C £0 £0
Fabricio Coloccini 39 D C £0 £0
Maicosuel (Maicosuel Reginaldo de Matos) 35 AM RLC £0 £0
Fernando Amorebieta 36 D C £0
Esteban González 42 £0
Ángel López (Ángel David López Ruano) 40 £0
Marco Schönbächler 31 AM RL £0 £0
Eros Grezda 26 AM RL £0 £0
Franco Escobar 26 D RC £0 £0 £0 31-12-2022
Fabián Monzón 34 D/WB L £0 £0
Alberto Rodríguez 37 D C £0 £0
Miguel Torres 35 D RLC £0
Hugo Campagnaro 41 D C £0
Shawn Parker 28 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Artem Kravets 32 ST £0 £0
Ali Karimi 27 DM £0 £0
Keiren Westwood 36 GK £0 £0
Iván Bulos 28 ST £0
Oscar Ahumada 38 £0
Jairo Castillo 43 £0
Ivo Iličević 34 AM RL £0 £0
Mauro Milano 37 AM RLC £0 £0
Chinedu Obasi 35 AM R, ST £0 £0
Nicklas Bendtner 33 ST £0
Johan Djourou 34 D C £0 30-06-2022
Cléo (Cléverson Gabriel Córdova) 36 ST £0
Leandro Grimi 37 D LC £72k £6k
José De la Cuesta 38 D C £0 £0
Nelson Haedo 37 ST £0
Jair Pereira 35 D C £0 £0
Neven Subotić 32 D C £0 £0
Léo Morais (Leonardo Moreira Morais) 29 D/WB R £0 £0
Pablo Becker 28 M C, AM RC £4k £153k £12k
Isaac Vorsah 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Anderson Aquino (Anderson Angus Aquino) 35 AM C, ST £0
Ángel (Ángel Martínez Cervera) 35 DM, M C £0
Iván Corredor 38 £0
James Collins 37 D C £0
Jorge Valdivia 37 AM C £0 £0
Alejandro Faurlín 35 DM, M C £36k £3k
Tom Adeyemi 29 DM, M C £0
Jason Culina 40 £0
David Ramírez 40 £0
Juan Carlos Menseguez 37 £0
Marc Pedersen 31 D RC £0 31-12-2021
Omar (Omar Ramos) 33 AM RL £0 £0
Emmanuel Emenike 34 ST £0
Dossa Júnior 34 D C £0 £0
Calazans (Marcos Vinícius Silva Rocha Calazans) 25 D/WB L, AM RL £0 £0
Renê Júnior (Renê dos Santos Júnior) 31 DM £0 £0 31-12-2021
Harrison Otálvaro 35 AM C £0 £0
Diego Placente 44 £0
Leandro Rodríguez 28 AM R, ST £0 £0
Matthew Rusike 31 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Aboubakar Oumarou 34 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Uilson (Uilson Pedruzzi de Oliveira) 27 GK £0 £0 31-12-2020
Leonardo Sánchez 34 D C £0 £0
Ilsinho (Ilson Pereira Dias Junior) 35 WB R, AM RC £0 £0
John Goossens 32 DM, AM LC £0 £0
Pedro Portocarrero 44 D C £0 £0
Brad Evans 36 £0
Christopher Samba 37 £0
Joel Barbosa 38 £0
Masahudu Alhassan 28 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Sassá (Luiz Ricardo Alves) 27 ST £0 £0
Paulinho (Paulo Sérgio Betanin) 36 ST £0
Felipe Lopes (Felipe Aliste Lopes) 33 D C £0 £0
Ala'a Hubail (Ala'a Ahmed Mohamed Hubail) 39 ST £0
Mario Abrante 39 D C £0
Andrés Sánchez 33 D C £0 £0
Mathías Cardacio 33 DM £0 £0
Yaya Soumahoro 32 AM RLC, ST £0
Guilherme Biteco (Guilherme Bitencourt da Silva) 27 AM C £0 £0
Wanderley (Wanderley dos Santos Monteiro Júnior) 32 ST £0 £0 30-11-2021
Siphiwe Tshabalala 36 AM RLC £0 £0
Mariano Brau 39 D C £0 £0
Molo (Manuel Casas) 36 £0 30-06-2022
Dickson Choto 40 £0
Adrián López (Adrián López Rodríguez) 34 £0
Pablo Amo (Pablo Amo) 43 £0
Carlos Martínez (Carlos Martínez Díez) 35 D/WB R £0
Mourad Meghni 37 £0
Carl Valeri 36 M C £0
Justo Villar 44 £0
Carlos Núñez 29 ST £0 £0
Anthony Jackson-Hamel 27 ST £0 £0
Miguel Ángel Nieto 36 M/AM RL £0
Anthony Georgiou 24 D/AM L £0 £0
Mehmet Ekici 31 DM, AM C £0 £0
Nick Blackman 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Anderson Pedra (Anderson Carvalho Trindade) 38 DM £0 £0 30-11-2020
Fayçal Rherras 28 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Ayoub El Khaliqi 34 D/WB R £0 £0 30-06-2019
Mohammed Rabiu 31 DM £0 £0
Armand Traoré 31 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Lorenzo Del Prete 35 D/WB R £0 £0
Gabriel Santos (Gabriel dos Santos Nascimento) 39 D C £0 05-05-2019
Mario González 37 £0
Julian Koch 30 D R, DM £0 £0
Yaya Sanogo 28 ST £0 £0
Micheal Babatunde 28 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Jean-Marie Dongou 26 AM R, ST £0 £0
Kevin Kratz 34 DM, AM C £0 £0 31-12-2019
Germán Mandarino 36 D/WB R, AM RC £0 £0
Pierrick Valdivia 33 DM £0 £0
Dario Jertec 35 DM, AM RC £0 £0 31-05-2020
Madson (Madson Formagini Caridade) 35 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
José Devaca 38 £0
Alberto Gilardino 39 £0
Juan Carlos Espinoza 30 D/WB RL £0 £0
Ricardo Ferreira 28 D C £0 £0
Marco Hartmann 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Lukas Spalvis 26 ST £0 £0
Lukáš Pokorný 28 D LC £0 £0
Alex Amado (Alex Broch Amado) 34 AM L, ST £0 £0
Jonathan Reis (Jonathan Jackson de Lima Reis) 32 ST £0
Omar Arellano 34 D/AM R £0 £0
Carlos Tenorio 42 ST £7k £530
Nicolas Douchez 41 £0
Mariano Messera 43 £0
David Templeton 32 M RL, AM RLC, ST £0 £371k £28k
Aleksandr Kokko 34 ST £0 £0
David Rocha 36 DM £0 £0
Arouca (Marcos Arouca da Silva) 34 DM £0 £0 31-01-2021
Ronald García 40 £0
Fernando Crosa 42 £0
Héctor Bracamonte 43 £0
Abdul Razak 28 M C £0 £0
Joel Acosta 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Ronald Vargas 34 AM RLC £0
Gergely Rudolf 36 £0
Andrea Barzagli 40 £0
Florent Sinama-Pongolle 36 £0
Oriol (Oriol Lozano) 40 £0
José Manuel Aira 45 £0
Sam Lundholm 27 AM RL £0 £0
Maksym Malyshev 28 DM £0 £0
Ferrán Sarsanedas 24 D L, DM £0 £0
Pablo Alcolea 32 GK £0 £0
Fran Sandaza 36 ST £0 £0 30-06-2022
Uroš Nikolić 27 AM C £0 £0
Adrian Stoian 30 AM L £0 £0
Selim Bouadla 32 AM LC £0 £0
Weslley Smith (Weslley Smith Alves Feitosa) 29 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Felipe Mattioni (Felipe Mattioni Rohde) 32 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Bennard Kumordzi 36 D C, DM £0 £0
Nemanja Kojić 31 ST £0 £0
Manuel Redondo 37 D LC, DM £11k £800
Luke DeVere 31 D C £0 £0
Bram Castro 38 GK £0 £0
Roman Eremenko 34 AM RC £0 £0
Miroslav Slepička 39 ST £0
Robert Flores 35 AM C £0 £0
Mauricio Victorino 38 D C £0 £0
Tero Mäntylä 30 D C £0 £0
Jakub Štochl 34 D C £0 £44k £3k
Christian Kum 35 D RLC £0 £0
Kilian Overmeire 35 DM £0
Lee Sang-Hyub (Sang-Hyub Lee) 34 £0
Fernando Pinillo 30 D C £0 £0
Thiago Santos (Thiago Nascimento dos Santos) 26 AM RL £0 £0

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