Following steps worked for me
things to know before

your flavour of linux
uname -r
for me it was
6.5.0-15-generic

vmplayer –version
for me it was
VMware Player 17.0.2 build-21581411

as on

https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tags


using comand

wget https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/archive/workstation-17.0.2.tar.gz

tar -zxf workstation-17.0.2.tar.gz

cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-17.0.2/

tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
sudo cp -v vmmon.tar vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/

then do

make

sudo make install