England manager Gareth Southgate has expressed reservations about Arsene Wenger's proposed reforms of the international calendar, fearing an injured player could be frozen out of their national team for a whole year.
Wenger, the former Arsenal boss who is now FIFA's Chief of Global Football Development, wants to see a biennial World Cup but also mid-season internationals to be compartmentalised into just one or two windows rather than the current five.
Under one of the draft proposals from Wenger shown to FIFA's member associations, the season would pause for a month in October for tournament qualifiers to be completed.