Dejan Lovren claims nobody listened to player and manager complaints about the packed fixture schedule having seen a number of his former Liverpool teammates pick up injuries.
Lovren left the Reds after winning the Premier League title last season and joined Zenit Saint Petersburg.
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He had just eight days holiday before starting the 2020/21 campaign with his new club due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Liverpool will be perhaps wishing they hadn’t allowed the centre-back to leave after seeing three of their starters go down in recent weeks.
Virgil van Dijk picked up a serious knee injury in the Merseyside derby which many fear may rule him out for the remainder of the season.
A few weeks later Trent Alexander-Arnold suffered a muscle injury against Man City, which resulted in manager Jurgen Klopp complaining about the five substitute rule not being continued for this season.
There was last weekend a chorus of dissent over the way the fixtures have been scheduled, with Klopp joining Pep Guardiola and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in voicing their criticisms.
Now Liverpool will be without Joe Gomez for many months after the defender suffered a knee injury while training with England earlier this week.
Lovren took to Twitter to complain about the way games have been stacked up, believing injuries were inevitable due to the amount of matches being played.
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He wrote: “People wondering why there is so many injuries, it’s simple.
“Too many games, impossible to recover, when you know that this year is a weird one (Covid). No proper time off, (personally I had only 8 days off) no proper pre-season and then the crazy schedule.
“@ToniKroos is right and many other managers said the same thing over and over again but nobody listens.
“People who write and decide the schedule of matches should think about this topic.”
Germany midfielder Kroos had earlier complained that FIFA and UEFA were ‘sucking’ everything out of the players.
“With the invention of all these new things we seem to be just the puppets of FIFA and UEFA,” he said on the Einfach mal Luppen podcast.
“These competitions are created to suck everything out of every single player physically and to suck out as much money as possible.”
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