How to handle players returning fatigued from internationals during preseason

[Siven]

How do you handle players returning fatigued from internationals during preseason, I try to give them a week or 2 holidays as recommended by the physio, but then they miss most of the preseason training and then during the season always get fatigued quicker than others.

 

[AurioDK]

Yeah, I had 8 players returning from internationals in midseason with the jaded status after 1 domestic game, it was practically my entire first team. I sent them on two weeks holiday and suffered the consequences. They were fine after that.

I have tried to take them off pitch/gym work for two weeks but that doesn´t help nor did it do anything to rest them for two games, most of them will also get grumpy if they don´t play. Since I play a match every 3rd day there is little time to rest for longer periods of time even with the "talk about resting" option. Lots of real life players playing almost every single game, I can´t get them to do that in FM.

On the plus side I am not the only team with those problems, I can see the AI rotating their players a lot, often 7-8 players after a single game in a busy midweek schedule. So, it´s equal for everyone.