Chelsea's head coach comments on potential player strike over the schedule
Chelsea's head coach Enzo Maresca comments on the increase in the number of matches.
“In terms of games, it’s too much. I don’t think we protect players. But the only ones that can do something are the players. Because we can say what we think, for me it’s completely wrong the amount of games that we have, but the only ones that can do something are the players and we can help them. I think in the last week, some of the players they’ve tried to explain or to say what they think and I think it’s a good starting point.”
Despite those comments, he doesn’t expect any of his players to request to be left out of a match if they feel as if they’re playing too much. “It’s not going to happen,” he said. “Since they were very young, they train and they work and the dream was to be football players, they are not going to say ‘I don’t want to play’.” This is not going to happen. Can happen, something different. But all the players they want to play the games,” told Maresca The Guardian.
Previously, players from English Premier League (EPL) clubs, specifically Rodri from Manchester City and Alisson from Liverpool, expressed dissatisfaction with the congested schedule. It was mentioned that, as a result, players might consider going on strike.
