Arteta suggests rule change to help fixture congestion
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has suggested that the Premier League up the substitutes to 10
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00:00 "Well, if we have more games, more competitiveness and physically the standards are high, we're
00:06 going to play more minutes, we have to do that or we have to, instead of five subs we
00:10 can have ten. Now the five subs is something normal. It was a big fight to go from three
00:15 to five. So I cannot imagine now a game in the conditions that we are in today after
00:20 the last year and the World Cup that we didn't have the five subs. It would be so difficult.
00:25 So we would have to think, if the calendar extends for sure we have to think about ways
00:29 of not dropping the quality. The only way to do it is players have to have certain availability
00:35 and you need players to pick."
00:37 "We will need more players. It's no secret that players have a certain amount of energy
00:43 and the battery lasts so long. Even though we burn them. We will need more players if
00:48 that's the case and we have to adapt."