Whelan: Not convinced

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Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has called on the Premier League to provide more information about the plan to play games abroad.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore last week announced that all 20 clubs in England's top-flight had agreed to further examine a radical plan that would see each team playing an extra match a season overseas.

Whelan can see the positives in the proposal but has also admitted that he has a number of concerns.

"I am sitting on the fence. I m not condemning it but neither am I condoning it and I know quite a few chairmen feel the same way," he told the Daily Express.

"We want more answers to an awful lot of questions. We want to hear what the Premier League have to say about our questions and we want to look long and hard at the answers when we get them back."

Is it worth it?

Whelan is not convinced that teams should be asked to fit one more match into an already packed schedule, while he also has doubts about the Premier League's financial promises.

He explained: "We have been told that we can expect £4million per club - maybe £4.5million. But we all know that money is going to go straight to players - and their agents - demanding ever more the more money clubs make.

"We have to discover, for a start whether the money we have been told about can be acquired or not.

"You hear managers say they don't want another game and you also hear them saying they can do without international games, such as friendlies, so we have to ask ourselves, is it really worth it?"