| Sounds like France are about to..... 14:29 - Apr 28 with 5206 views | Bloots |
….cancel the current football season entirely.
Assume they will declare it null and void. |  |
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| Sounds like France are about to..... on 18:45 - Apr 28 with 807 views | hype313 |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 15:09 - Apr 28 by monytowbray |
Closed doors because Sky need the money. And the PL need the money.
But they only need the money because it was a greed fest to begin with.
I hope big business really thinks about investment back into themselves for security and not just profit or to suck it into an off shore bank account of a bloated salary after this is all done. A lesson learned, but also quite obvious it should have never gone that far to begin with.
It's the PL and C'ship clubs I'm more worried about than L1 and L2.
Although the lower clubs are in more danger as things stand, a little could go a long way to protect them with lower wage bills, league support, owners chipping in, furloughed wages, wage deferral and other means.
But many of the top two league clubs are pretty much going to fall down quite fast unless somehow MILLJONS is pumped in a month to each of them, and as Joe said likely for a prolonged period of time. And it ain't gonna happen because there would (rightly) be national outrage if Football was put above supporting the public and health system. I can see a handful of PL and C'ship teams being very close to the wall by the Summer.
So where's the support going to come from if the PL isn't bringing in TV revenue? Closed door games is the only chance, and because the top 6 PL clubs have held all the power since 1992 it's probably what we'll get.
It will be dross but if everyone is pitching in a tenner a game across the game as fans to watch from home, and that money is spent fairly across the board based on club size, it might work. But again it won't. Do you think Liverpool will give up a few thousand each game to help out the likes of Accrington and Fleetwood? Doubtful.
Part of me is enjoying watching this more than I have the game for the last year. Call me a sadist but modern football has been a sh1tshow for too long. They made deadline day for the sake of a biannual reality TV circus where Sky could get their views up without any games on. Well have this for a circus then you greedy f*cking pr1cks. What you reap is what you sow. [Post edited 28 Apr 2020 15:12]
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I'd argue PL clubs are in less danger than L1 and L2 as they essentially don't need the crowds as they get so much money from TV rights, its the lower leagues that rely on gate receipts for income, so if it is going to be behind closed doors for the foreseeable then a whole host of clubs are going to go under. |  |
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| Sounds like France are about to..... on 18:48 - Apr 28 with 807 views | factual_blue |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 18:26 - Apr 28 by yesjohn99 |
Surely he signed a five year deal, not a five season deal? |
Manager's deals run like players deals (I think), ie from 1 July to 30 June. So five seasons. |  |
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| Sounds like France are about to..... on 19:00 - Apr 28 with 790 views | yesjohn99 |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 18:48 - Apr 28 by factual_blue |
Manager's deals run like players deals (I think), ie from 1 July to 30 June. So five seasons. |
So they’ll be no out of contract players come 30th June then? That solves one issue then. |  | | |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 19:26 - Apr 28 with 779 views | The_Last_Baron |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 17:06 - Apr 28 by vapour_trail |
You were doing well until the final para. |
Next season behind closed doors will curtail the finances. Players will either have to accept much smaller wages or clubs will be liquidated and contracts cancelled. Never again will chairman and owners be handing out big contracts to average Premier League players. [Post edited 28 Apr 2020 19:33]
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| Sounds like France are about to..... on 19:49 - Apr 28 with 758 views | monytowbray |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 18:45 - Apr 28 by hype313 |
I'd argue PL clubs are in less danger than L1 and L2 as they essentially don't need the crowds as they get so much money from TV rights, its the lower leagues that rely on gate receipts for income, so if it is going to be behind closed doors for the foreseeable then a whole host of clubs are going to go under. |
I should have added, as things stand they'd be in trouble. If games go on behind closed doors that's them sorted. I imagine the rest of us will be left to rot. |  |
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| Sounds like France are about to..... on 21:00 - Apr 28 with 730 views | hype313 |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 19:49 - Apr 28 by monytowbray |
I should have added, as things stand they'd be in trouble. If games go on behind closed doors that's them sorted. I imagine the rest of us will be left to rot. |
No worries kinda felt ypu were alluding that, going to be scary times for everyone methinks.
Just on your Norwich point, I was of the understanding that if you get relegated in the first season you only get 1yr of parachute, not sure if that's true or not? | |
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| Sounds like France are about to..... on 21:33 - Apr 28 with 715 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 21:00 - Apr 28 by hype313 |
No worries kinda felt ypu were alluding that, going to be scary times for everyone methinks.
Just on your Norwich point, I was of the understanding that if you get relegated in the first season you only get 1yr of parachute, not sure if that's true or not? |
If you go straight back down first season you get parachute payment for two years, otherwise it is 3 years.
Presumably if the season were deemed to be completed and to avoid the Villa problem they decided no relegation then when Norwich get relegated in 12 months time they would presumably be entitled to parachute payments for three years. |  |
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| Sounds like France are about to..... on 21:53 - Apr 28 with 708 views | monytowbray |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 21:00 - Apr 28 by hype313 |
No worries kinda felt ypu were alluding that, going to be scary times for everyone methinks.
Just on your Norwich point, I was of the understanding that if you get relegated in the first season you only get 1yr of parachute, not sure if that's true or not? |
I think you may get more if you’re a yoyo club, or it could be less.
The club is pretty much making money from being good in the Championship (because they have said money) but sh1t in the PL. It’s madness. | |
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| Sounds like France are about to..... on 22:25 - Apr 28 with 685 views | J2BLUE |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 17:43 - Apr 28 by ElderGrizzly |
Not really. I've got a wife with cancer, so i'd prefer it would f*ck off...
It's just i'm living it every day with work, so i tend to feel rather passionately about it and that we should be doing everything we can to minimise the risk. Which restarting the PL, in the time-frame discussed or opening department stores next month isn't doing
Thanks for your predictable mocking though. Bravo. |
I've got mildly annoyed with Dolly on another thread for just making a blanket statement without any consideration for the context behind the decisions people are making.
Hands held up, i've done the same here. Perhaps you just need to be prepared and looking at the worst case scenario is your way of doing that. My mate's girlfriend has cancer and he's terrified.
I apologise and hope your wife and family get through it safely. |  |
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| Sounds like France are about to..... on 09:29 - Apr 29 with 610 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
| Sounds like France are about to..... on 17:43 - Apr 28 by ElderGrizzly |
Not really. I've got a wife with cancer, so i'd prefer it would f*ck off...
It's just i'm living it every day with work, so i tend to feel rather passionately about it and that we should be doing everything we can to minimise the risk. Which restarting the PL, in the time-frame discussed or opening department stores next month isn't doing
Thanks for your predictable mocking though. Bravo. |
That’s awful, sorry to hear |  |
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