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England manager Gareth Southgate has encouraged collaborations between FAs and clubs regarding player fitness.

England boss Gareth Southgate admits the Football Association has yet to persuade all Premier League clubs about the benefits of data sharing around player fitness.

The FA has been working on a more collaborative process surrounding the mass of statistics generated by elite players for a long time and is keen to have a completely transparent model where clubs have full access to data from international breaks and vice-versa.

The aim is to fine-tune training plans, build a more complete profile of individual conditioning and better identify those in danger of injury.

But Southgate, speaking at St George's Park on Tuesday, conceded some sides harboured concerns about releasing such information, while it is also understood the different collection and recording methods at various clubs make a 'like for like' database all but impossible.

"To clarify, we share our data. We don't always receive data,'' Southgate said. "That's where we would like to head towards, because it helps more around working out a training schedule when they first come into camp. But we can't enforce it. That's got to be an agreement, sharing, and at the moment some clubs are more comfortable with it than others.

"We've not got it from every club at the moment. One of the dangers, I guess, is the perception of it being leaked. I guess it's just a case of building up trust.''

Southgate was eager to point out that his footballing instincts were augmented by the numbers, rather than led by them.

"It's very rare data throws something up that as a coach you haven't clocked but it does back up your thinking,'' he said. "There has to be context around data.

"If you have a team who presses high compared to one that counter-attacks it has a big bearing on distances covered and high intensity distances. It can't just be about numbers. I need my coaching eye and understanding of how clubs play to back that up.

"I never want to send players back injured. A couple of players were injured last time, but relationships are as good as they can be. They have these relationships in other countries too but in terms of data, there aren't many countries that send the data back. We are open on that. Relations are as healthy as you could expect.''

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