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.
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.
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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.
I think the idea is the media equivalent of cancer considering the understatement that the English value their heritage.
Let the smaller teams dream a little, and also make a bit of money
fully agree, it’s a dumb competition nobody cares about until the final, just schedule congestion.
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.
Even though I am for smaller clubs unfortunately it will probably cease to exist soon. They already stopped playing the league cup in France.
Tell me you support a Premier League club without telling me you support a Premier League club.
I like the cup but think it would be interesting if it was for the championship and leagues below that. Guarantee a not PL winner (coming from a PL fan).
Let me guess, foreign fan with no real attachment to their club?
Bro supports prolly Liverpool cuz the beatles are from There and played as them in fifa career mode guarentee
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?
Disagree, it’s a competition English clubs use to play younger academy players. English clubs a more reluctant to play them in the league because of the finances on offer. League Cup allows young british players the chance to impress in senior football. Without it you’d only really have the FA CUP but teams tend to play more first teamers in it depending on the draw as its more prestigious. Plus it’s good for lower league teams to get extra revenue in.
I think they should make it to include teams from other british leagues
Maybe have some grouped league cups. Grouped in the sense of England + Scotland, Spain + Portugal, France + Netherlands etx