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underpants

(182,274 posts)
Tue Dec 21, 2021, 05:43 PM Dec 2021

Pep lays it out. Imagine managing a team with players traveling all over for games

The leagues are by country but the players come from all over. Returning home. Playing in national team games all over the globe.


Liverpool's Pep Lijnders questions 'absurd' Premier League decision to continue festive fixtures


https://www.espn.com/soccer/liverpool-engliverpool/story/4553885/liverpools-pep-lijnders-questions-absurd-premier-league-decision-to-continue-festive-fixtures

Lijnders also urged the Premier League to listen to the medical and scientific experts on how to proceed with matches during the pandemic.

"For me, the experts are not the managers," he added. "The experts are the scientists and the doctors. We should follow their guidelines and the Premier League should ask them, not the CEOs or the managers but them.

"Health always comes above everything. The guys who are sick and driving out to the hospitals only have one thing in their mind and it's to get better so I pray for them.


"We are in this job to protect our players, staff and also the family members. That's why we have all these good measures in place and we have to follow the protocols and guidelines of the doctors and the scientists.

"If there's one common behaviour in this pandemic over the last years is that we've always acted too late and that's we went from one health crisis to another."

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Pep lays it out. Imagine managing a team with players traveling all over for games (Original Post) underpants Dec 2021 OP
"Health always comes above everything." Well, maybe not. JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2021 #1
He's right awesomerwb1 Dec 2021 #2
Incredible run over the last few years underpants Dec 2021 #3
A little more than that awesomerwb1 Dec 2021 #4

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,283 posts)
1. "Health always comes above everything." Well, maybe not.
Tue Dec 21, 2021, 05:53 PM
Dec 2021

Money comes above everything. Money from television, from ticket sales, from beer sales.

Players are not in it for their health alone. The financial aspect of their contracts may matter as well.

underpants

(182,274 posts)
3. Incredible run over the last few years
Tue Dec 21, 2021, 06:06 PM
Dec 2021

I’d have to look it up but I don’t think they’ve lost 10 games in all the competitions since 2019.

awesomerwb1

(4,256 posts)
4. A little more than that
Tue Dec 21, 2021, 07:06 PM
Dec 2021

I think it's closer to 13ish in the Prem alone. Remember they lost 6 in a row at Anfield when half the team was injured 20-21.

Great run. Long may it last.

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