One could have a 2 birds 1 stone approach by setting up a Minutes/Matches per 12 months Limit for players (NOT the clubs, who could play 200 matches a season if they want) and mandate that wages be per/Match (or per minutes, hour, etc. Can include availability in club training premises and so on).
The over-exertion thing is mitigated, the wages thing is addressed without destroying clubs & players ability to negotiate for themselves.
Clubs are happy since they get to play same number of fixtures (even more with Squad limits also increasing to say 30 or so).
Lowly teams will have higher odds over the season to create upsets since bigger teams won’t be playing best 11 every single fixture.
The only ones who’ll whine the most about these changes are the Fantasy League users.
I missed Last Spurs match and I closed the stream on this one at 89th minute.
Seen a lot of PL this season so far but Yet to see a single goal scored on Spurs.
I am missing out on the drama.