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Originally Posted by GirlySports
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Yeah, that would be stupid.
He thinks it would 'speed up the game' presumably because children have the attention span of gnats. We should be working to fix that rather than pander to it, but thats a whole other argument.
It would essentially turn every ball into touch into a free-kick, and thats not going to speed the game up, its going to slow it way, way down because now if the ball goes into touch near the corner flag, its essentially a corner.
Dumb, dumb idea. And I'm really not sold on the 5 subs change either. I know why some clubs want it, and I know exactly why Klopp wants it.
It would be a huge advantage for teams like City and Liverpool to be able to completely change/rest their entire attack when a game is won and still have a couple subs left, or completely re-do a midfield and still have subs.
But that would kill the smaller teams and just make the gap wider.
I further understand the appeal of the 5 subs, I get that you have to rest/rotate/protect players, but the answer to that isnt more subs, its fewer matches. How many matches did Elite players play last season?
How many matches did Mo Salah play between going to the end of every domestic and European competition and AFCON?
Scrap this bogus Nation's League buffoonery and all of these side-tournaments, they are over-saturating international matches.