SPORTS: Arsenal's Arsene Wenger and West Ham's Slaven Bilic at odds over FA Cup rule changes
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger and West Ham manager Slaven Bilic disagree over reported plans to scrap FA Cup replays.
It has been suggested that the rules of the famous competition should be tinkered with in order to ease fixture congestion, and ideas mooted include moving matches to midweek and/or ditching replays.
But Wenger, whose Arsenal team host Hull City in the fifth round on Saturday, does not think such adjustments are necessary.
"I am now vaccinated by the FA rules after such a long time, so I have become very conservatively English!" said Wenger. "And I am quite a bit nervous about changing the rules, because I like them now.
"I believe as well it looks like we get always more money and we want to play less games. That is a little bit of a contradiction.
"Next season, you have even more money coming in. That means in every single club you will have 25 top level players and I am convinced that all the clubs can compete, with the number of games we have to play, and that there is no real need, for me, to change the rules.
"This is the most traditional competition in England. Let's respect it and keep it as it is."
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