Four Spurs players facing 10-day hotel quarantine after international break

[freeeki]

Nobody should be stating with any authority who is to blame as nobody can possibly know.

True, but fair to assume Winks had something to do with it

 

[panoma]

Willian could return to Brazil without spending 14 days in a hotel, but the argentine players get evicted. Got it.

(A point made by the Argentina camp)

 

[rabbikeane]

Don't agree that we can't say who is to blame, the issue is more finding who isn't to blame.
Bunch of amateurs all over. This should have been solved long before the players even flew over.

 

[thebenjamin]

Neither of them are playing for us til Easter anyway.

 

[cwy21]

Marcotti says Infantino is at the Swiss/Italy game. Bet his phone has blown up this last hour.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

It's Levy. It's always Levy!

He probably tipped off the Brazilian authorities when it became clear Scaloni was going to play our players in all three matches, all under the pseudonym Daniauro Levistuta.

 

[guiltyparty]

Spurs and Villa also at fault. The PL agreed to not release players for this, but they still did.

Even Wolves held back Jimenez despite threats from Mexico.

The clubs should stand together on these kind of things. This was always going to be a mess when the brazilians stayed back in England while Argentina had their players there.

We absolutely shouldn’t have released them

 

[rob1984]

Seem Argentina knew the situation and maybe tried to lie their way around it, and Brazil have pulled off a PR stunt that might get them handed a win by default rather than dealing with it beforehand.

Give zero points to both.

 

[thebenjamin]

Hopefully this means we can pull them out of future internationals.

 

[chrissivad]

Spurs and Villa also at fault. The PL agreed to not release players for this, but they still did.

Even Wolves held back Jimenez despite threats from Mexico.

The clubs should stand together on these kind of things. This was always going to be a mess when the brazilians stayed back in England while Argentina had their players there.

Did the PL back this, or just the teams decide not to release them?

 

[gio747]

We absolutely shouldn’t have released them

I’m not sure we’d have had a choice. Argentina and Brazil are different kettle of fish to other South American nations. Players like Lo Celso would likely never play for them again if they refuse a call up .

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Remember that time we let Son play on the Asia games despite it not being a FIFA recognised tournament? And then after he won it let him off from military service which would’ve all but ruined his career in his prime? And then this summer, when Kane wanted to leave and we had no manager and everyone was like ‘oooh our club is so shit’ Son signed a new contract that would basically keep him with us until he was past his best?

Perhaps supporting our players, to our own detriment, with their wishes with regard to representing the nations isn’t a stick with which you beat us.

 

[tototoner]

This is all gonna repeat in a month unless something sorted out

 

[Russ1201]

True, but fair to assume Winks had something to do with it

Could we replaced Romero and Lo Celso with Winks, should of flew him over instead ??joke btw winks fans.

 

[haslemereyid]

Remember that time we let Son play on the Asia games despite it not being a FIFA recognised tournament? And then after he won it let him off from military service which would’ve all but ruined his career in his prime? And then this summer, when Kane wanted to leave and we had no manager and everyone was like ‘oooh our club is so shit’ Son signed a new contract that would basically keep him with us until he was past his best?

Perhaps supporting our players, to our own detriment, with their wishes with regard to representing the nations isn’t a stick with which you beat us.

 

[Erm33]

Just get them back now please.

Fifa needs to move all qualifiers to countries without quarantine issues. They can be played anywhere.

 

[thebenjamin]

Looking at Argentina'a schedule one does wonder why we put all that time and effort into signing Romero this summer.

 

[easley91]

Did the PL back this, or just the teams decide not to release them?

This was the statement regarding red list countries:

Statement regarding September FIFA international break

Premier League clubs unanimously decide not to release players for international matches in red-list countries next month

www.premierleague.com

 

[thekneaf]

I'm assuming the players weren't the ones doing their entry to Brazil paper work. Is that a reasonable assumption?

 

[Marty]

Did the PL back this, or just the teams decide not to release them?

The PL organisation deals with selling rights, media, growing the commercial brand, things like that. But the power in the PL lies with the 20 clubs that compete in it in any particular season, the league can't force any sort of footballing decision upon the clubs.