This beefed up schedule comes as the game has never been faster. With the pandemic, it was how much was unknown that made it the challenge – we didn’t know how long we’d not be playing or if we’d come back at all.” “It’s challenging but at least it’s written down and you know about it.
“There is a 15-week season and a 24-week season with a five week break in the middle. “It’s almost going to be two seasons in one,” Harley says. Clubs are also putting plans in place to cope with players returning demoralised after being knocked out of the World Cup but who are expected to “go again” within days.
For those in Qatar, the demands of travel and playing in a hot country are going to add further stresses when they return. The five-week World Cup break is a complex issue for clubs: for those left behind, they will need to keep ticking along to prevent them becoming deconditioned. The season kicks off in August, runs for 15 weeks before the World Cup and then restarts on Boxing Day when league, Cup and Champions League games will need to be squeezed in before a May finish. Harley worked with Rafa Benitez at Goodison Park last year so knows that clubs have been preparing for the unique demands of this season for months. “It’s hard to predict how next season is going to go but it’s going to be a very challenging season for players and clubs.” “There’s just been no rest for the players since Project Restart,” Jamie Harley, the former head of science at Everton and Newcastle United, says of a gruelling schedule in which Premier League players have competed almost non-stop since June 2020. Inside football, clubs are bracing themselves for burnout and more injuries to the game’s top stars.
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