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[BBC] Erik ten Hag: The football schedule has "crossed the limits of what players can handle" (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 11 months ago by OPchainsaw@alien.top to c/main@soccer.forum

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[–] solidwobble@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What do you think of mandating a minimum number of minutes for academy players/season, to take pressure off big players. Something like 2000-3000 minutes (i.e 20-30 games worth, to be split between as many academy players as need be). Also incentivizes clubs bring youth through

[–] Lolkac@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

impossible, it will just ruin the market and quality of the league.

[–] Eleven918@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting idea but how would you account for academies that don't have players at a decent level enough for top tier football, prevent burnout of that one top prospect etc?

Also for clubs that get promoted, they are already facing an uphill battle to avoid relegation.

If they are forced to play youth too, that will make things all the more harder since the bigger clubs will just sign the promising players.

The number of games issue is primarily for clubs in the CL, EL, ECL.

[–] solidwobble@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Could just mandate it for teams playing in 4 competitions, or require them to play 2000 minutes and everyone else to play 1000