The Domestic competitions must be protected, it is the lifeblood of the lower league Clubs and they all hope for a good run but their prize is a Club in the premiership away from home or a home tie full to the Gunnells with fans.
If UEFA or FIFA who are not out to promote football, let us not be fooled about this as the fat cats within both organisations have lined their own pockets for decades and these World Club games could be well played at the end of season and not in regular season, hence the reason we do not know what will happen when the World Cup goes to Qatar in the midst of winter and the busiest part of our own season because the vote was rigged for money.
There are more International games every season taking weeks out of the calendar and too many games to play to fulfil all the fixtures.
One of the solutions in my opinion, not popular but is increasingly becoming obvious, is to reduce the size of the Premier League by two teams thereby taking 4 games out of the list, it would mean a major restructure of the leagues.
Another solution is to reduce the number of Internationals, this too would free up a great number of weeks and reduce the number of injuries players receive on these matches, but I think this suggestion would be cut off at the knees by these money-grabbing bastards who sit at the top table. Have you ever noticed at games like Wembley where the best seats are saved for the Corporate bodies and empty at HT so they can get to the free bar paid and bought by the fans and usually takes 10 minutes into the second half before they resume their seats at a match they literally have no interest in.