With the World Cup strangely falling slap bang in the middle of the Premier League season for the upcoming campaign, certain clubs are set to gain a significant advantage with some player’s national teams failing to qualify. From a player’s perspective, missing out on one of few chances they’ll get to participate in a World Cup is a total nightmare.
However, you can guarantee that whilst they won’t openly admit it, some Premier League clubs will be secretly rubbing their hands together at the prospect of their stars getting a nice winter break whilst their rivals’ risk injury and tired legs overseas.
The reason we say ‘some clubs’ is because there are a few Premier League sides that have gotten off rather lightly when it comes to their players making the trip to Qatar.
Naturally, the further you look down the traditional Premier League food chain towards the bottom end of the league with the smaller wage bills, the less international representatives those teams have – so that could be an interesting dynamic over the winter break.