Conte admits Premier League meeting was ‘waste of time’

[mawspurs]

Tottenham boss Antonio Conte felt that Thursday's meeting between the Premier League and managers was like talking to a wall.

Source: Eurosport

 

[CanadaSpurs]

What was the meeting about?

 

[carmeldevil]

What was the meeting about?

how to run productive meetings

 

[TheTanguy]

What was the meeting about?

Coronavirus: Premier League managers and players to meet to discuss welfare and fixture congestion

Two meetings to take place - one with Premier League coaches, the other with captains and senior players; player welfare and fixture list on the agenda, along with five substitutes; Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel confirms Romelu Lukaku, Ben Chilwell and Callum Hudson-Odoi negative Covid tests

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[JCRD]

I do find it utterly strange that you couldnt just play the second set of games on the Wednesday rather than on the Tuesday - that way there is a 72 hour window and teams would be used to that. 48 hrs is pretty ridiculous. I know why theyre doing it - its for the TV and particularly Amazon as its a bank holiday and more people would watch it but people would still watch the games on the wednesday evening

 

[Col_M]

The rights of these games are sold months in advance. Lots of £ at stake. They have to protect the product.

 

[slartibartfast]

As soon as they invited senior players there was never going to be anything worth while come from it.

 

[newbie]

The rights of these games are sold months in advance. Lots of £ at stake. They have to protect the product.

I agree it’s about the money but….
They couldn’t come up with a schedule to stop this hmmm it honestly can’t be that hard you play a group of the non playing in Europe teams together in one bracket and use them for Tuesday games they can skip the akward 48 hour games by taking out the odd game and play later in the year midweek