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 23 will help you avoid making that fatal mistake. To be clear, these are lists of players that you DO NOT WANT TO BUY in FM2023. Avoid signing these players in Football Manager 2023 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 2023 but they are all susceptible to injuries and likely to get injured alot in FM23. Avoid signing these players in FM2023.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Sergio Agüero 34 AM C, ST £0
Paulo Dybala 28 AM RC, F C £138k £17m £41m 30-06-2025
José Giménez 27 D C £83k £103m £224m 30-06-2025
Marco Reus 33 AM RLC, F C £165k £31m £67m 30-06-2023
Mats Hummels 33 D C £165k £17m £35m 30-06-2023
Callum Wilson 30 ST £90k £55m £68m 30-06-2024
Dani Carvajal 30 D/WB R £154k £15m £14m 30-06-2025
Eden Hazard 31 AM RLC £384k £14m £13m 30-06-2024
Marcos Acuña 30 D/WB/AM L £31k £40m £81m 30-06-2024
Erik Lamela 30 AM RLC £52k £44m £89m 30-06-2024
Leonardo Bonucci 35 D C £200k £282m 30-06-2024
Giorgio Chiellini 37 D C £18k £300m 31-12-2023
Zlatan Ibrahimović 40 ST £32k £2m £3m 30-06-2023
David Neres 25 AM RL £36k £25m £51m 30-06-2027
Thomas Vermaelen 36 D C £0
Raphaël Guerreiro 28 D/WB L, M C £83k £33m £65m 30-06-2023
Mario Götze 30 AM C £54k £24m £29m 30-06-2025
Sami Khedira 35 DM, M C £0 30-06-2023
Giovani Lo Celso 26 DM, AM LC £100k £30m £60m 30-06-2025
Miralem Pjanić 32 DM £48k £300m 31-05-2024
Leonardo Spinazzola 29 D/WB/M L £92k £22m £43m 30-06-2024
Rafinha 29 AM RC £69k £14m £1m 31-05-2024
Iván Marcano 35 D LC £33k £1m £1m 30-06-2023
Ante Rebić 28 AM L, ST £74k £10m £10m 30-06-2025
Arthur 25 DM £126k £10m £9m 30-06-2025
Gareth Bale 32 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Adam Lallana 34 DM, AM C £67k £6m £7m 30-06-2023
David Zurutuza 35 M/AM C £0 30-06-2020
Justin Bijlow 24 GK £8k £14m £16m 30-06-2025
Mattia Perin 29 GK £46k £6m £5m 30-06-2025
Stephan El Shaarawy 29 WB L, AM LC £92k £6m £6m 30-06-2023
Jasper Cillessen 33 GK £3k £28m 30-06-2025
Corentin Tolisso 27 DM, AM C £83k £15m £29m 30-06-2027
Douglas Costa 31 AM RLC £50k £300m 31-12-2023

There are some of the best wonderkids (players with a high potential ability attribute) in Football Manager 2023 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 23 career. They may be good young players, but seriously, avoid signing these injury prone wonderkids in Football Manager 2023.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Noni Madueke 20 AM RLC £100k £100m £261m 30-06-2030
Jamie Bynoe-Gittens 17 AM RL £5k £35m £121m 30-06-2025
Pietro Pellegri 21 ST £21k £10m £21m 30-06-2025
Faustino Anjorin 20 AM C £25k £29m £67m 30-06-2025
César Gelabert 21 AM RLC £3k £2m £204k 30-06-2023
Justin Diehl 17 AM LC, F C £940 £6m £15m 30-06-2023
Márton Dárdai 20 D C, DM £6k £10m £22m 30-06-2025
Victor Boniface 21 ST £5k £28m £2m 30-06-2026
Fodé Fofana 19 AM RL, ST £1k £3m £7m 30-06-2025
Riquelme 19 D/WB L £1k £2m £6m 31-12-2026

You can pick up all of these players as free transfers in Football Manager 2023, but be warned, they each have a high injury proneness rating in Football Manager 2023 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 FM23 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 34 AM C, ST £0
Thomas Vermaelen 36 D C £0
Gareth Bale 32 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
David Zurutuza 35 M/AM C £0 30-06-2020
Bruno 38 DM, M C £0
Mateo Musacchio 31 D C £0 £0
Fabian Delph 32 D L, DM, M C £0
Benjamin Hübner 33 D C £0 £0
Martin Skrtel 37 D C £0 30-06-2022
Mista 43 £0
Mousa Dembélé 34 DM £0 £0 31-12-2022
Maxym Kalinichenko 43 £0
Salif Sané 31 D C, DM £0 £0
Jonatan Álvez 34 ST £0 £0
Šime Vrsaljko 30 D/WB R £0 £0
Wellington 31 DM £0 £0
Diego Perotti 33 AM RLC £0 £0
Håvard Nordtveit 32 D C, DM £0 £0
Jefferson Farfán 37 M R, AM RC, ST £0 £15k £14k
Daniel Carriço 33 D C £0 £0
Renato Chaves 32 D C £0 £0
Eliaquim Mangala 31 D C £0 £0
Alexandre Pato 32 AM L, ST £0 £0
Marcelo Oliveira 35 D LC, WB L, DM £0
Bernardo Romeo 44 £0
Bill Hamid 31 GK £0 £0
Ivan Radovanović 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Marcelo Goiano 34 D/WB R £0 £0
Jano Ananidze 29 M L, AM LC £0
Juan Ignacio González 38 D C £0
Orlando Berrío 31 AM RLC £5k £449k £38k
Kieran Gibbs 33 D/WB L £7k £263m
Edílson 35 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Giovani dos Santos 33 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Luis García 44 £0
Christian Gómez 47 £0
Ayrton Preciado 27 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Isaac Cuenca 31 AM RLC £0 £0
Hildeberto Pereira 26 D/WB R, AM RL, ST £0 £0 31-12-2023
Léo Gomes 26 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Víctor Vázquez 35 AM C £0 £0 £0 31-12-2023
Kily González 47 £0
Lucas Castromán 41 £0
Fabricio Coloccini 40 D C £0
Alfie Mawson 28 D C £0 £2m £148k
Jordon Mutch 30 AM C £0 £0
Pål André Helland 32 AM RL £0 £296k £24k
Marcel Schmelzer 34 D/WB L £0
Alberto Rodríguez 38 D C £0
Esteban González 43 £0
Mauro Cetto 40 £0
Jean-Christophe Bahebeck 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Nathan 27 D C £0 £0 £0 31-12-2023
Dedé 34 D C £0 £0
Ayub Masika 29 AM RL £8k £540k £44k
Marcelo Larrondo 33 ST £0 £0
Miguel Torres 36 D RLC £0
Hugo Campagnaro 42 D C £0
Daniel Didavi 32 AM LC £0 £0
Miguel Vieira 31 D C £0 £0
Ibrahim Rabiu 31 DM, AM C £0 £0
Michel 32 DM £0 £0 30-11-2022
Adrián 34 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Beto 40 GK £0 £0
Iván Bulos 29 ST £0
Oscar Ahumada 39 £0
Jairo Castillo 44 £0
Walter Erviti 42 £0
Levan Mchedlidze 32 ST £0 £0
Nicolai Jørgensen 31 AM L, ST £0 £0
Jozo Šimunović 28 D C £0 £0
Johan Djourou 35 D C £0
Nicklas Bendtner 34 ST £0
Neto Berola 34 AM RL £0 £0
José De la Cuesta 39 D C £0
Cristian Higuita 28 M C £0 £0
Jair Pereira 36 D C £0 £0
Alex Gersbach 25 D/WB L £0 £0 £0 31-12-2025
Izzy Brown 25 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Maximiliano Lugo 32 M LC £0 £0
Pedro Júnior 35 AM/F C £0 £0
Ángel 36 DM, M C £0
Iván Corredor 39 £0
James Collins 38 D C £0
Fabián Monzón 35 D/WB L £0 £0
Tom Adeyemi 30 DM, M C £0
Jason Culina 41 £0
Federico Azcárate 38 D LC £0 31-12-2022
David Ramírez 41 £0
Juan Carlos Menseguez 38 £0
Mathis Bolly 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Björn Sigurðarson 31 ST £0 £0
Gustavo Blanco 27 DM £0 £0
Sandro 33 DM £0 £0
Jordan Lukaku 27 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Diego Placente 45 £0
José Izquierdo 30 AM L, ST £0 £0
Uilson 28 GK £0 £0 31-12-2020
Leonardo Sánchez 36 D C £0
Víctor Cáceres 37 DM £0 £45k £4k
John Goossens 33 DM, AM LC £0 £0
Brad Evans 37 £0
Pedro Portocarrero 45 D C £0
Joel Barbosa 39 £0
Maximilian Beister 31 AM RL £0 £0
Jorge Bosmediano 31 D C £0 £0
Masahudu Alhassan 29 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Liliu 32 AM R, ST £0 £0
Valentín Viola 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Oscar Vílchez 36 DM £0 £0
Luca Antonelli 36 D LC, WB L £2k £21k £2k
Winston Reid 34 D C £0 £0
Ala'a Hubail 40 ST £0
Mario Abrante 40 D C £0
Paul-Georges Ntep 29 AM RL £0 £0
Mathías Cardacio 34 DM, M C £0 £0
Wilfried Kanon 29 D LC £0 £0
Wanderley 34 ST £0 30-11-2021
Ivan Obradović 34 D LC, WB L £0
René Lima 37 DM £0 £0 31-12-2022
Lee Wallace 34 D/WB L £0
Molo 37 £0
David García 41 D/WB L £0
Jeremy Helmer 25 DM, AM LC £0 £0
Adrián López 35 £0
Tico-Tico 46 £0
Pablo Amo 44 £0
Cristian Álvarez 44 £0
Carlos Martínez 36 D/WB R £0
Daryl Janmaat 32 D/WB R £0
Mourad Meghni 38 £0
Justo Villar 45 £0
Anthony Jackson-Hamel 28 ST £0 £0
Jon Ander Garrido 32 D C, DM £0 £0 30-06-2023
Borja Ekiza 34 D C £0 £0
Jander 34 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Ibrahima Traoré 34 AM RL £0 £0
Rudy Gestede 34 ST £0
Jonathan Amon 23 AM RL £0 £0
Nathan Ribeiro 32 D C £0 £0
Ayoub El Khaliqi 35 D/WB R £0 £0 30-06-2019
Mohammed Rabiu 32 DM £0 £0
Juan Manuel Ortíz 40 AM RL, ST £0 £2k £150
Lorenzo Del Prete 36 D/WB R £0 £0
Enzo Gutiérrez 36 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Martín Galmarini 41 D/WB/M R £18k £1k
Roman Eremenko 35 AM RC £0 £0
Nathan Baker 31 D C £0
Dario Jertec 36 DM, M RC, AM C £0 31-05-2020
Julian Koch 31 D R, DM £0 £0
Alexis Rolín 33 D C £0 £0
Ivan Runje 31 D C £0 £0
Joshua Gatt 31 M/AM R £1k £0
Facundo Silva 31 AM C £0 £0
Isaac Vorsah 34 D C, DM £0 £0
Pierrick Valdivia 34 DM £0 £0
Igor de Camargo 39 AM/F C £0 £0
Lukáš Pokorný 29 D LC £0
Philippe Senderos 37 D C £0
Andreas Blomqvist 30 DM £0 £0
Juan Carlos Espinoza 31 D/WB RL £0 £0
Thomas Agyepong 25 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Marcel 29 D C, DM £0 £0
Alex Amado 35 AM L, ST £0 £0
Rodolfo Gamarra 33 AM RLC £0 £0
Diego Tardelli 37 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 31-12-2021
Omar Arellano 35 D/AM R £0 £0
Alfredo Cano 39 £0
Francis 40 D/WB R £0
Mariano Messera 44 £0
Isaac Vassell 28 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Mohammad Ansari 30 D LC £0 £0
Luan 33 DM £0 £0
Siphiwe Tshabalala 37 AM RLC £0 £0
Franco Niell 39 AM RL, ST £19k £1k
Madson 36 M C, AM RLC, ST £0
Fernando Crosa 43 £0
Héctor Bracamonte 44 £0
Jefferson Gómez 26 D C £0 £0
Milan Massop 28 D LC £0 £0
Abdul Razak 29 M C £0 £0
Joel Acosta 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Mariano Brau 40 D C £0 £0
Merouane Zemmama 38 £0
Ronald Vargas 35 AM RLC £0
Francisco Prieto 39 £0
Andrea Barzagli 41 £0
Wesley Sonck 43 £0
Florent Sinama-Pongolle 37 £0
Bram Castro 39 GK £0
Gérard Gohou 33 ST £0 £0
Nelson Solíz 28 DM £0 £0
Ismaël Diomandé 29 D C, DM £0 £0
Nicolás Freitas 35 DM £0 £0
Óscar Cabezas 25 D C £0 £0
Pablo Alcolea 33 GK £0 £0
Fran Sandaza 37 ST £0 £0 30-06-2022
Lacina Traoré 32 ST £0 £0
Christer Reppesgård Hansen 29 D RC £0 £0
Furdjel Narsingh 34 AM RL £0 £0

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