| The impetus for a prem league return 11:03 - Apr 25 with 1522 views | sparks |
behind closed doors... According to the radio this morning, part of the pressure is to get the season done, so the transfer window can open and money can therefore flow down to the lower league clubs in need.
As if that is going to happen. The big money clubs will be like vultures picking at the bones of desperate smaller clubs. Even in this time, they are still thinking of how the gap can be increased and their own nests can be feathered- I have no doubt about that whatsoever. |  |
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| The impetus for a prem league return on 11:06 - Apr 25 with 1490 views | brazil1982 |
With the exception of Burnley, PL money doesn't flow down, it flows overseas. |  | | |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 11:09 - Apr 25 with 1478 views | vapour_trail |
The only sensible approach is to abandon the season and settle back in our collective comfy places to watch the scousers explode. |  |
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| The impetus for a prem league return on 11:35 - Apr 25 with 1405 views | BlueBadger |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 11:06 - Apr 25 by brazil1982 |
With the exception of Burnley, PL money doesn't flow down, it flows overseas. |
A bit like James Dyson's 'Brexit Dividend'. |  |
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| The impetus for a prem league return on 15:45 - Apr 25 with 1274 views | Schmoke |
I'd not even considered this but it's now obvious that I think about it.
Clubs will go bust/get desperate for money and sell anything they have to in order to keep afloat. Therefore anyone with any semblance of talent will just move 'up' the leagues. Kids looking for clubs will then just get hoovered up by the nearest 'big' club academy leaving nothing of any real value to 'smaller' clubs.
All the remaining clubs will then fight even harder then before for the scraps off the table and 'rising stars', pilfered from their own academies, and be expected to be even more grateful then they were previously because the 'big' clubs will have 'saved' them with some form of bullsh*t 'solidarity' payments that will just about afford them the pot they're having to p*as in.
F*cking hell â˜¹ï¸ |  | | |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 15:52 - Apr 25 with 1259 views | jas0999 |
One way or another we need to get the season done. It’s not going to be interesting or attract much attention, but the impact for all clubs is huge. |  | | |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 20:47 - Apr 25 with 1152 views | WD19 |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 11:09 - Apr 25 by vapour_trail |
The only sensible approach is to abandon the season and settle back in our collective comfy places to watch the scousers explode. |
The premier league will contrive some guff whereby the season is void enough for Norwich to stay up but not quite void enough that Liverpool can’t still win it. I think I will combust. |  | | |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 09:22 - Apr 26 with 1038 views | Leaky |
Also if the prem. league is not completed. Clubs will need to repay the tv money. |  | | |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 09:29 - Apr 26 with 1031 views | itfcjoe |
Yep, if the window opens it will be for the big clubs to rape and pillage their way through clubs that need the money.
I do think it needs to finish and we should be following the Bundesliga in what they are doing.
But it all boils down to testing - if we can hit the 100k target and increase from there so we are testing 1million people a week then 3-4k tests a week to footballers is relatively palatable.....if we are still at 25k a day then it is in no way palatable |  |
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| The impetus for a prem league return on 10:30 - Apr 26 with 964 views | Pinewoodblue |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 09:22 - Apr 26 by Leaky |
Also if the prem. league is not completed. Clubs will need to repay the tv money. |
Presumably no prize money based on where clubs finish in the league either. |  |
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| The impetus for a prem league return on 10:39 - Apr 26 with 946 views | Leaky |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 10:30 - Apr 26 by Pinewoodblue |
Presumably no prize money based on where clubs finish in the league either. |
I read somewhere that it would cost Burnley £50m seems a bit high. I don't know how the tv money is paid, I presume its monthly. If that was the case tv companies would just stop payments, unless its monthly in advance. Also whether there would contractual issues involved. | | | |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 10:44 - Apr 26 with 936 views | mikeybloo88 |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 09:29 - Apr 26 by itfcjoe |
Yep, if the window opens it will be for the big clubs to rape and pillage their way through clubs that need the money.
I do think it needs to finish and we should be following the Bundesliga in what they are doing.
But it all boils down to testing - if we can hit the 100k target and increase from there so we are testing 1million people a week then 3-4k tests a week to footballers is relatively palatable.....if we are still at 25k a day then it is in no way palatable |
It is unlikely that a million people a day will ever need testing to see if they have the virus. Personally I even doubt if 100k a day will get tested and there will be a big surplus of testing capacity which should remove any moral qualms about some tests being diverted to get football done. It is the antibody tests we need to see how many had it when testing wasn't available to Joe Public... |  | | |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 11:24 - Apr 26 with 908 views | Bent_double |
| The impetus for a prem league return on 11:09 - Apr 25 by vapour_trail |
The only sensible approach is to abandon the season and settle back in our collective comfy places to watch the scousers explode. |
No it's not, as that approach results in the budgies staying up - a far, far worse outcome than Liverpool winning the league.
Whatever happens, no doubt we can look forward to Downes and Woolfy being sold for a combined £1m whilst being told it's the best offer they could get in the current circumstances. |  |
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