Women's World Sevens Will Be 'carnage And Fun'

Manchester United head Marc Skinner says nan inaugural Women's World Sevens tourney will beryllium "utter carnage and fun".

United are 1 of 8 teams taking portion successful nan new seven-aside competition which takes spot successful Estoril, Portugal, from 21-23 May.

They are joined successful nan tourney - which has a prize money excavation of $5m (£3.76m) - by Manchester City, Ajax, Benfica, Roma, Paris St-Germain, Rosengard and Bayern Munich.

Skinner said: "It's tactically going to beryllium crazy, which I deliberation is what we want - we want carnage. It will make everyone laughter and it is entertaining.

"My players want to play successful it. We'll person to study nan format arsenic we go. The first 1 will conscionable beryllium utter carnage and fun.

"We listened to our players connected this. If they didn't want to go, we genuinely wouldn't put our sanction successful it.

"The ones that don't want to - there's 3 aliases 4 players who person pulled retired for their ain individual reasons - will still get immoderate prize money if we win."

Matches will person 15-minute halves, pinch other clip deciding tie-breakers, and an infinite number of substitutions are allowed throughout.

Skinner says United are successful a cookware pinch Benfica, Roma and PSG and nan apical 2 teams of that group will advancement to nan semi-finals.

Should they triumph nan tournament, nan prize money will beryllium partially distributed among players successful nan squad, arsenic good arsenic being utilized by nan nine to enlistee caller signings.

It is importantly much than nan 1.4m euros (£1.2m) this year's Women's Champions League winners could gain connected 24 May.

"It's a logic why we entered," added Skinner. "For our team, wherever we don't person Chelsea, Arsenal aliases Manchester City's budget, it's immense if we're going to beryllium successful.

"If we tin return that money, it would beryllium a monolithic cookware for america to enlistee with. We person lofty ambitions to triumph nan WSL title successful 2028... but it's besides each for fun."

Skinner says United person not received immoderate backlash from nationalist squad coaches who are preparing squads for Euro 2025.

The World Sevens takes spot six weeks earlier nan commencement of nan Euros, which originates connected 2 July, but world players are apt to beryllium involved.

Asked if she wanted to play, England defender Maya Le Tissier said: "If nan gaffer picks me, I will. I would emotion to play successful it! It's conscionable a spot of fun."

Norway striker Elisabeth Terland told BBC Sport: "It each fitted successful perfectly aft nan play and aft nan FA Cup final.

"As a group, we emotion spending clip together. That's nan biggest logic arsenic to why we wanted to do it. Having a fewer days adjacent Lisbon, playing immoderate football, will beryllium cool."

England head Sarina Wiegman said successful March it would "not beryllium excessively bad" arsenic it could thief players stay crisp astatine nan extremity of nan season.

"Well if you spot now successful nan almanac for this summer, location is simply a spread - a spread pinch nary shot wherever players tin person a small spot of rest," she added.

"At nan aforesaid time, players request to support going because you want to beryllium astatine your champion for nan Euros. There is simply a spread of nary competitory games for a month.

"Of people I'm a spot worried astir that because for players coming backmost from injuries, they want to support going and get a rhythm."