Too many games are damaging players

Gone for a Burton said:
City are clearly and correctly prepared to be increasingly flexible regarding team selection for certain categories of games.....irrespective of injuries.

Additionally they are prepared to deploy a 'prevention not cure' policy to increasingly protect players from risk.

KdB is clearly being given as much time and rest as necessary to return to full physical and mental fitness and condition? even though this may be at the short term cost of team performances.

International withdrawals and retirements may increase as players begin to appreciate where their bread is buttered.

A tipping point is approaching.
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We're more sensible about it than a lot of clubs. You can see after international tournament summers, we give everyone an extended break and don't rush them back. It's no coincidence that while we usually start a little slowly because of this, when everyone is fit and ready we're strong during the run in when other teams start to burn out.

You're right though, something has to give. I guess the difficulty in the Prem is that we probably play around 50% more matches than the bottom half of the division, and they don't quite see the issue. Those teams are probably wishing for Europe and the extra games and money. Maybe makes it more difficult to get a unified approach to the issue.
 
Football is probably the only sport where the team barely rotate. Imo it’s also the clubs fault for not going for anyone. We needed 3 players and txiki didn’t deliver.
 
TinFoilHat said:
PL down to 18 would be a good start.

However too many US owners will make sure that never happens and the ones knocking on the door from the EFL will want it up to 24 with no relegation when they get in.
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They'd take that if they could relegate ourselves and Newcastle...
 
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TinFoilHat said:
PL down to 18 would be a good start.

However too many US owners will make sure that never happens and the ones knocking on the door from the EFL will want it up to 24 with no relegation when they get in.
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And the top 6 not being in the League cup
 
TinFoilHat said:
PL down to 18 would be a good start.

However too many US owners will make sure that never happens and the ones knocking on the door from the EFL will want it up to 24 with no relegation when they get in.
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I'd prefer the chumps league down to 32 and have a knockout and then cap internationals at 8 games per season.
 
Lowtower said:
Or just be straight knock out like in the black and white days.

No 3rd or 4th place losers allowed to qualify either
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That'll be the ticket and then we can go back to being normal instead of UEFA and FIFA swapping and changing the formats to rinse every last penny out of the sport.
 
Yes, there are too many games and travelling all around the world for players to recover, Recovery time is more important than fitness and being healthy, What football clubs need is to protect their players, the Premier League should control the amount of games they are allowed to play both in the League and International games,

I said it a long time ago, Make Clubs play the youth and EDS players in 5 or more games a season, Bring in the EDS to the Premier League and make all clubs play their EDS and Youth players against each other for the points,

5 games over a season when International games are played, so let's say City have to play Forest, Both clubs have to field a team with EDS players and can only pick 2 first team players that are not available for their country or have retired for international duty,

You could also make it like a cup round with a draw to see who you play in the games, Use a seeded system so the bigger games are protected from playing each other
 
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