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The 20/21 football season needs to be over before the euros and copa America. The euros and copa America need to be over before the Olympics.
That means the next club season needs to be over by no later than early June.
The Olympics wont just delay indefinitely. They will be on the dates chosen last week. Football isn't going to dictate the Olympics.
Come on man. I love your dedication to the most bizarre and ridiculous arguments, but the idea football will dictate to the Olympics is just a bit bonkers really.
Westend Blue
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The Olympics is worth something like 40Bn and Ueros 20Bn as rich as the top flight competitions are they pale in comparison to these two events
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I think we have to accept that payment has gone. If football thinks logically, gets rid of FFP it can survive it.
What we can't afford though, is to lose next seasons money (in it's entirety) trying to save the £750m this season. That really would bankrupt teams. We cannot afford, to prioritise this season, over being able to complete a whole season.
As a final aside, if that came in, my proposal would be, every team gets the minimum amount of money available for 1 season if the league is voided. We all share the pain together. Any left over money, donate it to the EFL.
GIVE IT UP
catcherintherye
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My position on this is quite simple. It would mean that games could really only be played behind closed doors.
To me this would not be acceptable to implement part way through a season. That is a none starter. It might be possible, if agreement was gained to begin a competition on that basis. So if thats the guidance, we would need to immediately cancel the existing season, and enter into a dialogue with clubs to see if they wanted to start the new season on that basis. Hopefully you can gain consent.
There's no way it's fair though to implement, after the event, behind closed doors into the season. It's used as a punishment measure, so clubs who have more home games lose out. It would turn the season into a circus.
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So the absence of evidence, is in fact overwhelming evidence?
Come on, mate.
Good, then we totally agree on that point.
I have repeatedly said that resuming is the lesser of two evils and acknowledge that there are problems with it. I'm not sure why you keep suggesting that I've said there are no consequences at all with resuming, that's patently not the case. I just believe the consequences of resuming are fewer in number and less complex than the consequences of voiding.
Foot Long Hot Dog
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They’ve already set the new dates for both the Euros and the Olympics and when announcing both, the contractual obligations to avoid any clash was clearly referenced. So it’s a done deal, finito.
They’re not going to move either again merely to facilitate the domestic football calendar, it’s not going to happen, so you’re living on cloud cuckoo if you seriously think that next season can run into the summer months. It simply can’t.
*Caveat - it could probably change again tomorrow
The 20/21 season as agreed yesterday will NOT finish before the Euros...
- If, as intended (agreed yesterday), they complete leagues new season will not start til at least early September, given they need to fit extra internationals pre Euros as well there is at least 5 weeks lost
- If unsafe, there will be no football in August.
Either way - as it stands today the 20/21 season is changed significantly & it is hard to see a scenario where it gets completed pre Euros, without major restructuring (binning cups etc)
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
The evidence is that
1) All of the leagues who operate on that schedule are the best watched, those on the alternate schedule are poorly watched.
2) The broadcasters have paid a fortune for a league that exists on that schedule, not leagues on a different schedule.
3) Nobody to my knowledge has ever issued a single complaint ever stating they wanted it moved to further improve the league.
4) The one proposed move, has been highly divisive, unpopular and people haven't liked it.
This is all evidence. I'm not sure what more you want? I'd also say, the old "if it aint broke don't fix it" rule works, so can we find any evidence to say moving the season would be a good thing?
It would be like me saying to you "show me the evidence that cancelling a season is a bad thing".
Give what up???? We are talking about next season. Nothing to do with voiding or continuing this one. You are a strange strange fella
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That's not my idea, nor my argument.
Why do the Euro's and the Copa America need to be over before the Olympics start?
Why is that fundamentally necessary and why do you believe broadcasters wouldn't forego that aspect of it?
Loads of sporting events run at the same time, Wimbledon, Tour De France and the World Cup are almost always on at the same time.
I'm not saying the Olympics will delay indefinitely, I'm saying the Olympics can start when they want, but if broadcasters are absolutely adamant that certain things need to be finished for them to start (which I can't see, personally) then they'll shift the Olympics back a few weeks, assuming they have that power.
What they definitely do not have the power to do is to void Football seasons 18 months prior to the Olympics, to ensure the Olympics runs on time.
Completely agree on the Olympics, it is certainly not going to move to accommodate football.
Difference with the Euros is, I can see a scenario where UEFA propose a collective solution for all of European football, in their statement regard 2021, they refer to "As it stands" with regards to both venues and Dates, implying the door is a jar (more so for venues I would imagine)
What I am not trying to say is the Euro's is definitely going to move; just that there is a small small chance it might as far as I can read the situation, which like everyone else is just guesswork
so you still want this one to NOT get voided tho?
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It won't be voided.
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