[Suggestion] Post Major Tournament Breaks

[TheInvisibleMan]

One thing that has bugged me a lot in the past is when players return from tournaments. When there's been a major tournament in the summer, it will usually end around the same time your players are due to report back for pre-season training (depending on what country you're in or when your pre-season starts). The players then come back from the tournament and are straight into pre-season training. These players are then also often the fittest in terms of their match sharpness, which makes sense, but theoretically means you could not give them any break and let them play on into the new season.

It would be much better if you could, either before the tournament or when they are knocked out, assign them a certain holiday or break before they return the training - like what happens in real life. I know you have the extended leave option currently but that is only available for players that are tired and need a rest.

We have seen in real life players like Alexis Sanchez and Claudio Bravo report back to their clubs a week before the season starts because they made it to the final of the Confederations Cup. It would be good to replicate this so the further players go in a tournament, the more of pre-season they would miss. It'd give you an extra challenge as to building up their match fitness slowly and integrating them into the team if they have missed all of your friendly games.

At the moment it just feels like the players that go to major tournaments are not treated any differently to the rest of the squad unless they are super-tired. When in real life this is not the case and the international players are given their holidays at different times to the rest of the squad.

[Neil Brock]

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