per the Athletic:

Clause 6.1.1 of a standard Premier League contract relates to employer obligations and dictates the club should not do anything that stops a player featuring for his country. It also states that clubs shall observe the rules, which are defined as “the statutes and regulations of FIFA and UEFA and the FA Rules and League Rules”, meaning in theory any club leaving those competitions would be in breach of contract.

One Premier League player was happy to be quoted anonymously.

“It’s a shambles,” he told The Athletic. “It’s the rich getting richer. I can understand why the clubs are doing it – if you can’t beat them, join them. But for the rest of the Premier League, the implications of that will be serious and long-lasting and it’s not going to be what we know it as now.

“We’ve been talking about it. Someone said Rangers and Celtic could come in and four teams will come in from the Championship (to make it 20 clubs again). But the Sky deals, and the stuff like that, they’re only doing that because of the big teams. People don’t realise the implications. There’s not a chance that Sky would carry on paying that money. It’s not just about the top six leaving, it impacts on the rest of the division and the lower divisions as well.

“Those clubs (the top six) are laughing, they’ll make more money than they’ve ever made before. The best thing is you play Brighton one week and Barcelona at the Nou Camp the next. But the novelty of that, playing Barcelona, will wear off if that becomes the norm.”

The player believes voicing these concerns publicly will be very difficult, however.

“So hard. If you’re at one of those clubs, getting paid by them, it’s nigh on impossible to come out and say anything. It’s like the managers. I heard (Chelsea boss) Thomas Tuchel saying, ‘I trust my club’. They can’t say anything. If you do, you’ll get fired and they’ll get someone else in who will do that job. It’s the same for the players. Unless you have 90 per cent of the dressing room willing to do it, there’s not a chance anything happens.”

Another player insisted strike action would not work.

“I don’t think they will. They may voice their opinions, but ultimately the clubs hold their registration.”

The original Premier League player speculated as to the type of player who would take such dramatic action. He said: “Maybe only the players who are coming towards the end of their career and have made so much money that they have nothing to lose, and they care that much about the game. But that’s very minimal.”

A Premier League without the six clubs involved would lose significant appeal, he added: “As a player, you work your whole life to play at Old Trafford and Anfield, and you’ve completely lost that. For me, it just wouldn’t be the same. I’ve spoken to boys here and at higher clubs and they’ve said the same – they’re not supporting it, but they can’t do anything about it. They feel powerless.

“Last night, I thought it was just threats and bargaining tactics. Then I woke up this morning and thought, ‘There’s not a chance that they would go through this, the damage that it has caused, to go back now to the normal’.

“I think they’re genuinely serious about it.”

Mid week? How the hell is that gonna work with teams in different countries? That's too much flying I'm assuming

I don‘t want to defend Perez but he might be true with that. The Agreement is from the 17th April and it says „as soon as practicable after the date of this Agreement ... to offer each of three following clubs the possibility to ... become a Founding club.“

Basically means they‘re planning to invite them and probably not did that yet.

This just makes players and coaches look like complete pawns or robots.

Pérez just clapped UEFA in primetime tv

If thats true then they aint interested in the sport at all

Let's make the game shorter

they should invite Redbull Leipzig too

they do it for the cl n el too lol thats not a problem

if i was a player id justify this by saying that i am very competitive and i want to play the best players and teams in the world as many times as possible so im all for it

meanwhile id be in the back like

im hyped for schalke to be in the 2nd league

Whys this being blamed on americacs?

Perez with another interview tonight

If americans are doing it to have basketball take over id be all for it ngl

My club is ran by charlatans

Fulham staying up at this rate

The irony of TK denouncing it when if we were 6th rn we would have joined

Lmao

I don't follow football anymore but I remember talks about this years ago, why is it suddenly happening now?

Some American owned teams are the ones doing it, creating an MLS-type league

This whole s*** caught UEFA off guard lmfao

will never happen. football popularity on another level

Mfs gon buy fc barcelona stock after messi scores a goal n s***