With news Joe Gomez is to miss the majority of the remainder to the 2020/21 season with a knee tendon injury picked on international duty, The Agenda returns to react. Guy Clarke is joined by Dan Kay to discuss the impact on Liverpool with Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold having also sustained injuries in recent weeks. With the calendar full with club football and international football, too, is it time to scrap international football for the time being, or how does football reduce the risk of injury to players? Plus, at a time when Jurgen Klopp is advocating a return of the five substitutions rule, that is brought into the debate.

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The Agenda: Time to scrap international football for now amid creaking fixture list ? | Joe Gomez injury reaction