Next season will provide a challenge that no club manager has any experience of navigating and at the moment the question is just how big an impact a winter World Cup will have on the 2022/23 campaign.
In a standard World Cup year, the tournament would get underway this Friday, but the vote to hand the tournament to Qatar has left us with the unpalatable and ludicrous prospect of a tournament that will begin on November 21, with the final taking place a week before Christmas.
It's impossible for the tournament not to have an impact on the outcome of domestic football's biggest prizes, given it has condensed the schedule either side of November and December, while clubs who lose most of their squad will have a balancing act to consider when it comes to fatigue this season.
