Injuries are usually bad for players because most of them don't recover after sustaining and been out for a long time while some can still bounce back in good shape. Injuries are consider a big barrier for players. You talking about African players faking injuries for the purpose to stay safe and prepare themselves for major tournaments, reasoning from your perspectives, its quite understandable but not all of them can be able to catch up the high competition stamina. Manchester United goalkeeper, André Onana is injured and will be out for few weeks because it's considered to be a minor injury.
There are many players who are also injured. Aside from onana, son from totenham has been also injuredy during the international break. The international break sometimes gave really bad impact to the club.
The club will be facing the crucial time caused by we are entering the middle of season. Some clubs need also to keep up their stamina as preparation to face the most important match.
Manchester united is still having very important match especially the match against galatasaray. Missing the main goal keeper is bad news for united. Galatasaray has beaten united at old trafford. Manchester united needs to steal three points from galatasaray.
I doubt if the backup goal keeper can do the job to protect the goal net from galatasaray properly.
The international break was really giving bad impact on the club. The club may also lose the players for longterm depending on how serious the injury that happened to the club.
I do not know if it is just me or not, but I feel like lately that has been more and more common, maybe it's just me but I think I feel like there are way too many players that end up getting injured a bit more commonly and that results with international break getting a lot more hate.
It used to mean you would be representing your nation, but if these injuries there keep getting more and more common, we may start to see clubs pushing players to just reject playing, and not like players would need a big reason, they could just say they got injured and reject to go, and sure they can play during summer probably and yes you can get a big injury that will go on maybe for a whole year, but at least if it's small thing then you will be ready, whereas if it's during winter, like when season is going on, you are missing the most important games. That's not really all that reasonable, and club fans are starting to hate international break because their players are getting injured there all the time.