Whiney interviews won’t change anything. But imagine all teams collectively boycotting an entire matchday. They just refuse to play. This would do huge damage to the leagues, UEFA, FIFA etc. And the clubs or associations can’t just punish everyone. They rely on the players. Don’t the players even have a union? So why is nothing like that happening? The only reason I can think of is that the pain isn’t strong enough yet to actually act.
I would have played match every day a week and twice on sunday for that money
I seem to remember Sir Alex refusing to register Manchester United in the FA Cup because there were too many matches. I don’t remember how it was resolved.
There weren’t too many matches as such, it was that they wouldn’t adjust the schedule when we were in the FIFA Club World Cup/Championship on the opposite side of the planet. So we didn’t enter the FA Cup that year.
If you really think they’re going to protest, you’re a bit delusional on that end.
Players and coaches will happily complain until their money gets affected. Them complaining means nothing since majority of them will never put their money where their mouth is.
They paid very well.
I don’t see the issue at all for fans. Don’t watch the lesser games if it bothers you. Teams can have a bigger squad to compensate for more games. Also players have longer careers with more matches than ever before.
Brother this people make millions of euros per year. A middle class person works at least 8 hours for 5 days and gets paid much less. So they shouldn’t be pissed about it, and do their job.
IMO UEFA, FIFA etc. aren’t even the problem.
The clubs are. They’re the ones that pick the players in those matches. They could easily use more of their U21 players and rotate more (would probably be better for youth development for them to get more time in first team games too!) but they don’t. They only use them when first team players are out injured and then whinge about it.
They are all under contract. If the leagues suffer monetary damages, they can sue all the players/clubs/managers responsible for said damages.
So if anyone were to take a stand against this, it would have to be the clubs (which they won’t cause that would mean less money).
I mean… it is the fans who are watching and attending those matches.
More matches more time to experiment with additional squad players and rest key players against lesser known teams, release them on loans and make MONEY save on wages.
Repeat.
Emi Martinez was a loan player most of his life and just had enough loan spells.
The issue is that the managers and players only mention it as a problem when it affects THEM, and then when they don’t get in trouble over it, they join the counter-choire of “it’s not a problem for us, so they should just man up and kick on”. Then the lack of memory beyond the last 3 months, and oh yeah MONEY. Also, the effect these excessive matches have on different clubs is very uneven. A club that goes all the way in cups will suffer greatly, where as a club that does not will usually just have a match a week and not give a damn…
Money. Lots and lots of money. They all bath in it.
It’s never happening
money.
just look at the crazy amount of added time being added to each half. they only care about money.
do footballers have unions in different leagues?
While I agree in general that there is a lot of money-grabbing going around, I’m curious why you think added time is a sympton of this? The reason given that it’s trying to more accurately reflect time the ball is out of play and therefore give us more actual game time
I’m not saying you’re wrong I just can’t think of the connection
As a fan, I don’t think there are too many matches. It’s kind of like being a manual laborer and complaining that working HARD 35 days per year is too much because of the other 150 days of light (ie practice) work you do on top of that.
At least footballers get paid an amount of money to make the effort worth it.
This is a massive understatement of the physical toll 90+ minute matches take on the body. Not to mention the take on ‘light work’ outside of that.