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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPep 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."
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,283 posts)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.
awesomerwb1
(4,256 posts)Go Reds!
underpants
(182,274 posts)Id have to look it up but I dont think theyve lost 10 games in all the competitions since 2019.
awesomerwb1
(4,256 posts)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.