Injuries can beset a football club with severe and rapidly mounting issues within the team. An outfit's treatment staff and physios are a vastly underrated and clearly integral element of any sports side. Though Leicester City have had their fair share (and seemingly others' shares) of fitness problems in the past, the department appears to be handling the workload now.
Yet a roster can also be affected and decimated by other aspects of life and work. For example, we often learn that crucial, and lesser valued, athletes are unavailable for various personal reasons. Typically, the only situation that will definitely keep male footballers away from competitive matches is something as important as their wives giving birth. But other scenarios exist.
The factors which Foxes fans are concerned with at the moment are the international commitments of their favourite and most prominent players. Obviously only the best ballers in a squad will get the nod to represent their National Teams. So that doesn't help either. Louis Page is one young Fox we have apparently got to worry about now, due to his England Under-17 (or U18) role.
Though an even more impressive youth, Jeremy Monga, may miss five very important City games as well. That's if he's called up for action for around a month and LCFC allow the starlet a hiatus from vital domestic football. What's the score?
Jeremy Monga could end up missing many significant Leicester City fixtures while he's out of Foxes action for around a month
It's actually the Men's Under-18s who'll represent the Three Lions in Qatar: they were previously the U17s upon qualification last season. And Monga recently joined teammate Page among the land's standout prospects.
"Both [Page and Monga] have key roles to play in the Championship campaign but could be away from the side in November should they be called up to England U17s World Cup squad."EFL Analysis
Should LCFC permit it, the duo may be away from November 3–27. That means they will potentially miss the Middlesbrough, Southampton, Sheffield United, Norwich City and Stoke City clashes.