Do International breaks Have a big impact on the form and fitness of premiership players and teams ! The begining of this season seems to be very stop start ? Discuss --
Hmmm.. With champions league and UEFA group stages coming up the players will HAVE to get alot more match fit, it also give em a change to play in 'shoddy' countries and poss adapt to playing conditions. i honestly do think we are gonna struggle qualifying
so wouldnt it have made more sense to have 15 games behind them in the premiership before sening them off for important qualifying games ? eh ?
imo yes! It would give players time to settle back into a routine. Look at Rooney, without a doubt one of our best players if not thee best but he's only played 3 - 4 games in prem and he looks bog standard, but i bet in a month or two he's shit hot again I don't think we can blame our past few performances on tired legs or not enough games tho...we have simply not been good enough. We were shit in the world cup, since then we have beaten and few SHIT teams.
but the premiership games suffer for it as well , as the teams cant get any rythm going . I think we should look at the way we organise internationals , and also yes the national team has been poo over the past year !
I can see them eventually doing what the cricket and rugby teams do and still play club football during the internationals and this may bring on new english players more as well . Its a difficult situation but i think changes need to be made asap !
I disagree, it's the same with all country's, in fact some nations have it worse, for example Italy's domestic season doesn't start untill September meaning that in the first international break of the season (september 7th) very few players have played any sort of first team action. All the top teams, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal all have players playing in Champions League football as well.
