Totally agree.
I wouldn't mind if they actually made it realistic, ie had a proper international week and not have your players coming back knackered every time. I have a feeling that if you had 23 England internationals in your team and they all went off for international duty, they'd all come back knackered.
I like it that they've added a proper calendar to ML..... but then they go and put an international game on the thursday before the start of the season :facepalm:
I actually don't think it's realistic at all, that ONE national game can f**k the players stamina up like we see in pes. I mean, how many times haven't wee seen players play national games on wednesday or thursdag night and still appear on the club squad starting line up saturday/sunday? This happens all the time - The thing is that when i play europa league matches in ML my players can easily appear in the next league schedule but ONE national match suck out all their energy.
And my players can't play 90 mins every time they get called up for their national squad - i know this because i have a lot of players from the same countries, so it' simply impossible. That's why i think it's completely shite.
Do we see Messi miss out a la liga match in the weekend because he played for argentina wednesday/thursday? NO