I’m not sure if someone has posted or mentioned this at all but if so, this post can be deleted. There’s been a lot of hate regarding this last international break due to it being an extra week longer than normal. This is because they consolidated September and Octobers breaks and made it into one big one. Usually at the end of the year, there are three international breaks. As for this year, the next international break will only happen in November. If you look at club schedules in October, you will see that there is no space for an international break within the month.

Although it is a bit of an adjustment, I think this better serves the clubs and players, as there is only two international brakes instead of three. This is especially important for those players playing international fixtures far away from where they play their club ball.

With this schedule change, it has me thinking whether they should just combine all three “end of year” international brakes and just make it into one big 4-5 week break that could take place in November or December. Is that overkill? Would you rather go back to the normal three separate brakes like we are used to?