The Premier League is threatening to boycott the Club World Cup due to concerns over player welfare. But they don't really care. Does anyone?
If Phil Foden plays every game in the European Championships this summer, all of England’s Nations League fixtures and World Cup qualifiers over the next year and is a stalwart in a Manchester City quintuple, including the Club World Cup next summer, he will have played 87 games of football in a little over a year. Including supposed holidays and ignoring pre-season games, that’s roughly a game of football every four-and-a-half days. It might be a bit much.
Masters and Tebas are currently sitting down with FIFPRO and the PFA at a workload conference in London, in which they will discuss a Club World Cup coup with the aim of forcing FIFA into a rethink. Neither the Premier League nor La Liga are about to create a new money-spinning summer competition like FIFA. What could they do? Have the same teams play a knockout competition? Guys, you’ve already got those. A five-a-side tournament?
We would love to be back up on our high horse throwing shade at FIFA and Infantino – it’s a comfortable place to be – but in doubting whether Masters and Tebas truly care about the wellbeing of footballers, we’re now wondering whether anyone other than the players’ unions care a jot.The Premier League has joined forces with football’s top leagues to threaten FIFA with a boycott of their illegal Club World Cup.
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