Pep Guardiola claims the Premier League have refused to simply accept Manchester Metropolis’s request to begin subsequent season late as a consequence of their involvement within the FIFA Membership World Cup.
Guardiola stated Metropolis had requested the Premier League to postpone their first matches of the 2025-26 marketing campaign to permit further time to relaxation after the Membership World Cup in the US.
Having already misplaced influential Spain midfielder Rodri for the remainder of this season following his knee harm in opposition to Arsenal, Guardiola fears his gamers will probably be burnt out and prone to harm due to the elevated workload.
The Premier League champions’ season may run till July 13 in the event that they attain the ultimate of the expanded 32-team Membership World Cup.
That would depart them only a four-week hole to squeeze in participant holidays and preparations in time for the anticipated begin of the subsequent Premier League season on August 9 or 16.
There may very well be an excellent shorter break if Metropolis are concerned within the Group Defend, as they’ve been for six of the final seven season.
However Guardiola stated Metropolis’s plea for an extended restoration interval had thus far fallen on deaf ears and he doesn’t anticipate that to vary.
Metropolis have already got a strained relationship with the Premier League as they struggle 115 prices of alleged monetary breaches, together with a failure to co-operate with an investigation.
“The Premier League has not allowed us to postpone – and Chelsea, I feel, all of the groups that may go to the World Cup – the primary two video games to have extra restoration. Thanks a lot! They don’t postpone these video games,” Guardiola stated.
“I feel the membership requested the Premier League, for the primary or second sport, to postpone it one or two, three weeks, in the midst of the week, to have yet one more week or two extra weeks’ holidays after the World Cup.”
Requested to make clear if a request had not been allowed, Guardiola stated: “Completely not. The Premier League say sure to us? No. Completely not. It’s not going to occur.”
The Premier League has not commented however it’s believed preliminary discussions have been held over the potential of suspending fixtures.
While there was no outright refusal, Metropolis haven’t been given the impression any such software would succeed.