Why the fuck are they tiptoeing around it?
It’s been like fourth interview about it.
A - YOU ARE SAYIN SOMETHING ABOUT IT
B - Footballers show how they are really not the brightest.
They really are privileged type of a worker, which has both time and money to organize biblical proportions of a union, but they don’t for some reason.
Any real threat of a strike from such union and players, clubs and football organizations would shit their pants.
But they are just plain stupid with really weak ass union and just do PR stuff about it.
It’s like that Mendy/Vini/Mephis case, when they are rather sniff their own farts and pat themselves on their back and do nothing about it.
imagine a player’s strike
I know!!
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How many more?
Cos it doesn’t seem like there is in general.
The CL adds games next year and the Euros might have added a game too. I guess the CWC but that’s not gonna be many games (would have been 2 in a year and now it will be every 4) and for a limited number of teams.
Where are you getting extra games from?
International players union!
WC is adding one more game only
If clubs and leagues wont do anything about it I think the next step is players will start putting a 50 game limit into contract negotiations
Multinational player’s union perhaps?
“If they die, they die” - FIFA
Legitimately curious, is there a footballers union? Do they have any actual recourse into forcing leagues and/or FA’s to lessen the games being forced upon them?
England has the PFA but I would imagine other leagues have similar players unions. How well they all operate and how effective they are is a different matter
They should but they also want more and more money. And to generate the income there are more and more matches. You can’t get both
I mean, youre a player dog. Do and say something.
I believe so and I know they’ve done things to benefit players in the past but this particular problem hasn’t been addressed iirc.
UEFA and FIFA only care about money, but they are completely devaluing their product. Euros or WC meant something more special 20 years ago and brands paid accordingly. Now you have basically a summer tournament every year. 60 plus games between teams and NT and you are looking a squad rotation that makes some games be like NBA games in January where players are coasting. Don’t see how this is a good business model other than for a quick profit for those in charge.
Lots of these lads won’t have a career by the time they are 30, not only the modern game is much more demanding but the amount of matches is absurd. Good luck going against it tho, money speaks.