Rosell wants the Premier League cut by 4 teams

Barcelona president Sandro Rosell says the Premier League needs to be cut by four teams to help the Champions League.
Rosell, who is also vice president of the European Club Association (ECA), wants to play European games at weekends and to cut down on international fixtures.
"We have to convince the Premier League to reduce to 16 [teams]," he said.

"We could perhaps play Barcelona versus Manchester United on Saturdays."
Rosell says such scheduling cannot happen while the leagues in England, Spain and Italy continue to have 20 clubs.
"It's something all of them (the domestic leagues) would have to agree to," he said.

"The objective of reducing from 20 to 16 teams is to give more space to our players.
"Then, once the dates are liberated, these dates are not for the (national) federations.
"The dates are for the clubs to organise friendly games or to increase the European competitions."
Speaking at conference in Doha, Qatar, Rosell warned Uefa the ECA may not extend their agreement when it expires in 2014.

He remains hopeful of working alongside the European governing body, but warned a split could happen if an agreement is not reached.
"We want to have the Champions League under the Uefa umbrella but we want them to hear our demands," Rosell said.
"If Uefa and the ECA reach an agreement then that's good for both parties.
"If not, with or without the Uefa umbrella, the ECA is entitled to organise their own champions' competition by themselves of course.
"We are not trying to eliminate dates for national teams - but the number of days our players are used by the national associations is huge."

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the_gooner wrote:LOL WTF.

No one from any league, especially La Liga should be giving advice to the best league in the world.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:He wants all leagues to cut down to 16, not just EPL....

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:Rosell is an idiot

St_Nick09_of_Goal wrote:Pep realizes that his magic minions can use more rest time to press and punish people?

H2G stock is running out?

lol

VibeTribe wrote:I think that it's essentially a good concept.

Schedules have gotten pretty ridiculous over the years and the amount of matches some players play over a season is outrageous.It would mean less injuries,less fatigue and more preparation.Rosell has a good point IMO.Sometimes less is more...

alexjanosik wrote:Ofcourse Rossell is an idiot.
He is the Barca president so naturally whatever he says must be foolish.
Nevermind the fact that he is talking perfect sense.
I mean CL matches on weekends and not on freaking weekdays.
Less stupid international friendlies.

but hey.I am sure the bunch of Barca hating muppets on here would much rather enjoy watching Spain taking on Chad or Uganda on a Sunday evening than a Barca vs United cracker.

dnmac4 wrote:

alexjanosik wrote:Ofcourse Rossell is an idiot.
He is the Barca president so naturally whatever he says must be foolish.
Nevermind the fact that he is talking perfect sense.
I mean CL matches on weekends and not on freaking weekdays.
Less stupid international friendlies.

but hey.I am sure the bunch of Barca hating muppets on here would much rather enjoy watching Spain taking on Chad or Uganda on a Sunday evening than a Barca vs United cracker.

Barca vs United cracker??? Chad would have a better chance beating Spain then United vs Barca, we've read that book before we know how it ends.

Just kidding!!!!!

alexjanosik wrote:Ofcourse Rossell is an idiot.
He is the Barca president so naturally whatever he says must be foolish.
Nevermind the fact that he is talking perfect sense.
I mean CL matches on weekends and not on freaking weekdays.
Less stupid international friendlies.

but hey.I am sure the bunch of Barca hating muppets on here would much rather enjoy watching Spain taking on Chad or Uganda on a Sunday evening than a Barca vs United cracker.