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Players playing too many games - Maresca
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20/09/2024
Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca admitted that players are playing too many games and something needs to be done ahead of their Premier League clash with West Ham
Cobham, London, UK
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00:00
The idea of how many matches the players play, do you think they're playing too many games?
00:07
Yes, no doubt.
00:09
So what solution would you come up with?
00:13
Because players are paying enormous amounts of money to play football matches and entertain everybody,
00:18
yet we're being told the more they play, the less likely they are to be able to perform properly and entertain.
00:23
So where is the happy balance?
00:25
No, I think in terms of games it's too much.
00:31
I don't think we protect players, but the only ones that can do something are the players.
00:38
Because we can say what we think, but for me it's completely wrong with the amount of games that we have.
00:45
But the only ones that can do something are the players and we can help them.
00:52
I think in the last week, in the last two weeks, some of the players tried to explain or to say what they think
00:57
and I think it's a good starting point.
01:00
What about going on strike?
01:03
Some of them said that. It could be an idea for them.
01:08
If I was one of your players and I said, listen, I'm playing too many games, can you leave me out of the League Cup or the FA Cup,
01:14
how would you view that?
01:16
This is not going to happen.
01:18
It's not going to happen. Not here, not them.
01:20
Because at the end, since they were very young, they trained and they worked and the dream was to be a football player.
01:28
They are not going to say, no, I don't want to play.
01:31
This is not going to happen, never.
01:33
It can happen something different, but all the players at the end, they want to play the games.
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