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The Premier League is considering playing halves of less than 45 minutes when soccer returns from the coronavirus pandemic, according to Executive Director of the Association of Professional Soccer Players, Gordon Taylor.
After a video conference involving all 20 Premier League clubs last week, the determination to complete the season, which has been suspended since March 13, was restated by the league.
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Sources told ESPN that the season will end behind closed doors in neutral locations and Taylor suggested that league games could be shortened.
“I am talking about the protocol that is emerging, I am talking about the future,” he told BBC Radio 4. “We do not know the future, what we do know is what proposals have been put forward and ideas.”
“More substitutes, games may not be complete 45 minutes each way, neutral stages, there are many things presented.”
“We are trying to wait to see what the proposals are and to have the courtesy of allowing managers, coaches and players to assimilate all of that and come to a considered point of view.”
English Football League President Rick Parry also told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee: “I don’t think we should rule out any creative ideas at the moment, given all the challenges we face … perhaps what is going on. he thinks he would. ” relieve tiredness. “
The League is another league in which changes to the game are being considered, and ESPN sources say they want to include conversations between players, coaches and referees during games, picked up by field microphones.
Sources also told ESPN that a growing number of Premier League players do not want to play soccer during the global pandemic.
