Jota plays on Tuesday could be back in training Thursday? It will he interesting to see what slot.does. A) use home league game to use squad thus prioritising cl start B) used cl start to rotate thus prioritising league C) plays the same first 11 all the time D).follows medical advise prioritising player health. Slot has a hold of chiesa jones nunez for 2 weeks now. He has ample time to try work on their understanding of the systems
Again... If internationals had defined long blocks (instead of lots of short blocks) they would care more about player injuries. If you only use someone for one game you might not care if you injure them. 6 weeks... You're going to try to keep them healthy.
If Nunez does start he has to do well! Can't afford to lose a good chance to make himself part of the first team.
I for one would.never accept regular.interuptions to seasons for internationals. The blood cup was shambolic.and ruined seasons. The acon is disruptive enough.
Condensed it all into a 6-8 week window at the end of the season. That way you Int managers get them for huge period of time where can work on tactics. You don’t have scenarios where you’re calling up players now after a 3 game calendar who are in form, then dropping them next squad as out of form then calling up again etc. instead you’d have a whole season to judge players and pick players. Regular Season can finish earlier with less breaks and everyone still gets a good holiday.
It'd be the same mess. Too many games all condensed to play 2 a week so some pointless games get played over 6 weeks.
I've said for years that I think all nations should just have to get their teams together a few weeks before a major tournament and sort it out from there. I know it's not ideal for them, but from my point of view the constant interruptions to the domestic season are far worse. It's just crazy that we get three games into a season, momentum is just building, and it all grinds to a halt.
For the nations league I can understand south america having real qualifiers but if it's fir no reason at all then it's just pointless.
How would it be the same mess? It would be like a euros tournament. 6/8 weeks of training and playing matches. 2 games a week get it all done rather then atm where they leave clubs get 2 days training with team play a couple games in space of 5 days and then go back to club teams.
Because to make this 6.weeks you must take the already compressed schedules and just mash them all up so instead of 3x 2 week periods (where a few players might actually get a rest btw) you end up.with trying to play a 9month season in 7.5 months and then roll players right into another 6 weeks of football. Your internationals will be shagged out then have to play the full time at full intensity Your non internationals will be stressed for 7.5 months with no rests then end up with a huge long break that just ends up meaning even more work to get back up to speed Like James milner, he gets himself a summer off then goes and works to be as fit as possible.but can at least have these 3 breaks during the season to recover in. These guys won't cope with a compressed season. Then you wonder what about the championship? Well there's quite a few internationals plying their trade there do you try compress the 46 game into 7 months too? But then league 1 you don't so you get some leagues in.england being compressed massively and others not.
Nah, if international managers had to keep their players fit for 6 weeks, they would take doing so more seriously. There would be less flipping back and forth between camps... less time spent travelling to and front distant continents. As much as we'd like them to, international fixtures aren't going away. It would make far more sense (and make a better spectacle) if they weren't sporadically spaced with only seeing each other for a week randomly through the year, with having all those weeks compressed to one (or two) windows... and international managers could work better on tactics.... players might actually learn something from internationals instead of just getting injured.
Good news so far is robbo survived the first game and thst joys was again only a late sub on so no energy needed.
Jota..sorry. Probably some autocorrect thing. At least he is rested watching Ronaldo creak about the place. Jota should retire before ronaldo
You’d have more time. Between our last game and the next game you could have played 3 more games if going wed-sat-wed. Even if dont have midweek games, still 2 games can slot in. Do that across the whole calendar and you can easily then fit in a proper mid season break of a couple of weeks to then allow a small period of rest. Yourr saying you compress a 9 month season into 7, but that’s how it works now anyway. It’s just the season goes on hold for 6 week period for internationals but you’re still playing same amount of games anyway. This way you just play all your league football. Then play all your international football. The amount of games and amount of rest doesn’t change.
Also you'd cut out all that ridiculous long-haul flying many players have to do. Having to acclimatise to a 5 or 6 hour time-shift twice can't be good for people.
I have said this for years drives me crazy The reason I always used to get given was all the. Leagues all over the world do not run at the same time But as far as I can see we have sorted it for the Qatar WC so it is easy to sort
