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League executives did not consider switching back to five
substitutes at recent meeting.

Despite growing calls to allow teams to use five substitutions
per match, Premier League executives chose
to not even bring up the topic for discussion
when
representatives from each club met on Thursday. This is just the
latest and most disappointing failure of club and league executives
to look out for player welfare.

For months, Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola have led a growing
number of managers in calling for the Premier League to reinstate
this rule to help them navigate an absurdly packed schedule of
matches. Despite one very outspoken opponent who has managed his
team to exactly 1 point thus far, most managers have either shown
some level of support or simply kept quiet.

At a November meeting of Premier League managers, as many as 14
or 15 of the 20 managers expressed a desire for the league to go
back to the five substitution rule adopted during Project Restart.
This led to much speculation and hope that the tides may be turning
in this debate.

Even though the clubs have twice voted down proposals to return
to five subs, there was some belief that another vote would be
successful after so many managers expressed support.

For a rule change to pass in the Premier League, 14 of the 20
clubs have to vote in favor of it. That means if the clubs of the
managers who supported this change would vote for it, the league
would finally join the rest of European football in allowing five
substitutions per match.

Unfortunately, club executives are the ones with voting power,
not club managers. Managers and their clubs are clearly not on the
same page on this subject as the executives did not vote to return
to five substitutes. Not one of them even brought up the topic for
discussion. That includes Liverpool and Manchester
City
, the employers of the two managers who have been banging
on this drum for months.

The anger I felt when reading this news is hard to describe. I’m
tired of writing about this. I’m tired of talking about this. I’m
tired of thinking about this. So many people see this as an obvious
(if maybe underwhelming) solution to relieve some of the burden of
playing so many matches over such a short period of time. That the
executives would not even talk about it at their meeting is
infuriating.


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It is possible, maybe even likely, that the club executives have
a pretty good idea of how the vote would turn out. Maybe those who
support it know the votes simply aren’t there, so they decided not
to commit time to another doomed vote. But that’s not a good enough
reason to not even discuss it.

Non-contact muscle injuries have increased by nearly a third
compared to this point in the 2019-20 season. That is extremely
worrying when we are only a quarter of the way through this
campaign. In all likelihood that number will only go up as players
rack up more and more minutes.

For the clubs to not at least discuss this topic when it is
front and center of nearly all Premier League discourse at the
moment is absurd. Even if the votes aren’t there, it needs to be
talked about. Something must be done to help these players and
managers cope with this season.

I have so many more thoughts that I had intended to include when
I was drafting this piece in my mind, but I simply do not have the
energy or desire to flesh them all out. I’m so tired of this
debate, and I don’t want to keep ranting about it. I’m just so
incredibly disappointed that the clubs had another chance to at
least try and make this right, and they couldn’t even be bothered
to give it a go. The players, the managers, the physios, and the
fans all deserve better.

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