The FA Cup is fine on its own. We don’t need the EFL Cup too. Most clubs priorities the FA Cup way more, it’s a more prestigious prize and the tournament has way more fixtures. Clubs also prioritise league matches over the EFL Cup anyway, so the EFL just adds to the fixture congestion of a lot of teams. Players are getting injured across every team anyway.
During a busy fixture schedule, clubs have to put together a team to play in the EFL cup midweek whilst trying to save their best players for the important league match 3 days later, but also trying not to get humiliated too badly in a Cup game that most teams don’t really care too much about.
Absolute nonsense.
No. It’s an extra chance of a trophy and frankly any team not named City should be aiming to get any trophy they can get their hands on.
Horrible Opinion
Tell me you support a Premier League club without telling me you support a Premier League club.
José Mourinho: “It’s not the premiership, it’s not the FA cup, it’s not the champions league but its still a cup and we must respect it — it’s the first winnable trophy every year [with the final in February], and provides the confidence to the boys that they are champions.”
Karma-farming opinion.
There is no guarantee that removing the League Cup will give players more rest days. The FA and TV companies will shoe-horn ways to include more fixtures.
if there weren’t too many games already i’d love to replace the carabao cup with an all-UK tournament. Would be cool to see Rangers and Celtics compete with Prem teams
Or make it a leagues cup, pit English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish teams against one another. Would increase interest in the contest.
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It’s another way for smaller trams to generate revenue by getting a potential away day at a big team or even better generate support by going on a successful cup run.
fully agree, it’s a dumb competition nobody cares about until the final, just schedule congestion.
Let the smaller teams dream a little, and also make a bit of money
It would be really cool if the EFL cup turned into a youth only type tournament. Like you could only have 3-4 players over the age of 23 or something. Would be so much more worthwhile and fun for the fans to watch and great development.
So like the u21s league we currently have?
On the basis Premier League clubs hate it, it should be maintained. Far too much reform is solely for the benefit of the wealthiest.
I would rather they scrapped nonsensical pre season tours to the other side of the world.