comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 5 hours, 36 minutes ago
Perhaps something like 60 games - 50 club and 10 international - would be doable.
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I get where you are coming from but can see carnage! Imagine getting to the CL final and missing half your squad because they played 50 games because you had an injury crisis. Or a nation like Morocco doing better than expected in the World Cup, reaching the final but you have to leave out your core because you didn't expect to get this far and they played 4 massive games in qualifying just to get you there.
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Not fully thought through, obviously, but teams would just have to make the most of their options, hedge their bets and decide where to take more risks. A lot of top clubs already do that now, deciding how to spread games and minutes ahead of important fixtures; this would perhaps add a layer of complexity, but it would do so in order to protect player welfare, which is what is being demanded.

Also, it's not like the limit would suddenly fall on them out of the blue; they'd know at all times how many games each footballer's played and how many they'd still be eligible for. As for injury crises, teams have them even now and find it hard to cope at times.

Not saying it would as simple as an outright/absolute limit, but something along the lines couldbeworkable.

Change the format of the league cup to remove PL teams, make it a true Football League Cup. Teams outside the PL don’t have the same level of players playing international fixtures so it’s less burdensome for them.

Get rid of FA Cup replays, and revert the CL / EL etc to go back to 6 games rather than 8.

Then make the PL 18 teams by relegating 4 teams for the next two seasons.

Reduces the number of games quite substantially.

If you want to reduce to 18, it's probably better to get it over and done with in one season. 2 up 4 down, or 1 up 3 down.

League Cup without PL teams would appeal to no-one.

comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 38 seconds ago
If you want to reduce to 18, it's probably better to get it over and done with in one season. 2 up 4 down, or 1 up 3 down.
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We want that 19 team season!

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 13 minutes ago
League Cup without PL teams would appeal to no-one.

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Isn't that already the Johnstone Paint Trophy or something like that

EFL Trophy that they put U21 PL teams in to jazz it up.

comment by Fabián Caballero (U1734)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 38 seconds ago
If you want to reduce to 18, it's probably better to get it over and done with in one season. 2 up 4 down, or 1 up 3 down.
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We want that 19 team season!
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Be great if one of the big sides was drawn to complete its fixtures first and had to sit out the final weekend waiting on other results to see if they won the title.

I don't watch international football outside of the Euros and WC. Just have zero interest

Needs to be stopped. Completely.

Pointless, disjointed, boring and like all matches between 'invitational' teams not actually very 'team-like'.