NATIONS - Nagelsmann on World Cup every 2 years: I’m no friend of that

In his job as FIFA's head of global football development, the former Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger is promoting a vision that has alarmed the coach of one of the world's finest clubs.

If the frequency is doubled, Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann is concerned about the impact on FIFA's marquee events.

“I’m no friend of that,” Nagelsmann said. “On the one hand, it affects the overload on players and there’s a devaluation of the World Cup. If it takes place more often, it doesn’t have the same significance.”

“There’s the flood of scheduling, which is getting more and more and is sometimes hard to control," Nagelsmann said. "We all have to, most of all in Germany and at FC Bayern, try to stay within sensible financial boundaries. If we have more and more games, whether it’s national or international games, then the squad just has to get bigger and bigger and you have a cost explosion. That all has to be capped and it’s not that simple.”