Fabio Capello has insisted a break is necessary if the national side are to prosper.
Richard Scudamore: "We are open-minded to it but I don't see where the impetus is going to come from for it.
"Mr Capello might want one but I can't see where the momentum is going to come to reduce our league from 20 to 18 clubs.
"It would be daft to do that when you have a global property of our strength. We have 380 games and you're not going to go down to 306 - why are you going to do that when people like UEFA are increasing the number of dates of their competitions.
"Why would we put our hands up and say we are the ones that are going to play fewer games?
"It's hard to see how practically it's going to happen.
"There are so many things about English football that people don't want to give up.
"We have just had a strategic review where the clubs fully backed a resurgent Carling Cup.
"It has gone from being a worthless cup 12 years ago to now having a decent position in the football calendar, and the last thing we are going to do is say how about scrapping FA Cup replays to create space."