Right so is that 92 games in 40 days followed by no pre-season straight into next season starting September??????
Cancelling this season's Premier League
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N.S.N.O.
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I agree.... I think the idea is, once the Virus has cleared, things can slowly go back to normal....on a staggered basis certain things can start up again, people can go back to work, but anything with big crowds will still be banned until 2021...so football can return, but not infront on fans...
Right now football behind closed doors still isn't safe.... And it still won't be safe in May... I assume the Premier league are hoping it is safer to do so in July or August...if it is, this season will be completed..
The whole point of quarantine isn't necessarily to wait for the Virus to die away, it was to stop too many people getting it in the first couple of months and overwhelming the Health service to the point thousands of people couldn't even be treated and would have had to be allowed to die (thats sadly what has happened in Italy)...
clubs with nothing to play for will use it as a pre season as such so that they are ready to go in September which again just makes a mockery of the whole thing. For example let’s say Aston Villa are playing Man City but Pep decides to play the youth team because his 1st team played 3days ago then the other relegation candidates will be screaming blue murder that it’s not fair.
sorry but any scenario other than null and void is just ridiculous.
I’d rather cancel next season too if that’s the case.
N.S.N.O.
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Would imagine they have to allow time for a transfer window...
The mad thing is, Liverpool will be one of the few clubs who could treat the remainder of this season as a preseason to prepare for next season.....
Liverpool are also the only Premier League club, who definitely know they have Champions league football next season, so they can be in transfer talks right now with players.... Other clubs (either because of European qualification or Relegation) don't know their Transfer budget right now..
When the League does restart, with any players who have already privately agreed moves in principle to a new club for next season, are they gonna be arsed playing in a dead season for fear of getting injured and missing out on their transfer?...
Chris O'Connor
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I think all this talk of European football and qualification for next seasons European competitions will prove pretty moot as I just can't see there being any, despite the cash cow that they undoubtedly represent.
Last week, Germany imposed a quarantine of at least 14 days for anyone arriving into the country (some limited exemptions for cross border commuters, goods vehicles etc). This is probably a foretaste and a measure to be widely introduced everywhere - as each country will want to have some form of control and monitoring to protect their people and health service.
So European and international competitions will be in the bin if that happens with second and third waves of infection - although hopefully less severe, inevitable until a vaccine is produced. With mutations this virus is something we'll be living with for a long time - even a vaccine won't protect against possible and probable future new strains.
This really is a crisis of such monumental proportions for football, the implications of which aren't even beginning to be understood.
Beneath the top flight so many clubs are now under threat (as many as 50 could fold in some scenarios) and in all the leagues hugely drawn out and ludicrously expensive legal minefields abound whichever decision(s) are made..
Top clubs stand to have their whole financial foundations so badly shaken that any budgeting transfers and planning are in the bin, no crowds (at best) until possibly 2021 means a vastly inferior product which in turn means no season ticket sales, vastly reduced TV rights income from Sky, BT and worldwide tv. No certainty on dates, contracts, new season start times or length and likely transfer windows.
So uncertain vastly reduced income for a massively devalued product that might start some time in the future with an uncertain number of clubs who may or may not have the same or different players.
Different countries will have different second and third peaks at different times with border restrictions enforced. - in fact with so much domestic disruption to the next domestic calendar even next season's European competitions should be shelved.
Money and TV rights are driving this aspiration for the impossible.
Do the only sensible thing and finish right now, no matter the mess it leaves, in the context of the crisis sport is totally unimportant
How can a competitive league restart after what will be a least a 7 week, but more likely longer hiatus ? - its beyond ridiculous now. Football authorities doing a fine impression of king Canute as the tide of inevitably is washing around them.
Transfer windows have previously ran concurrent to a season in-play so don't see that part as an issue.
Blueclouds
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Would be interesting to see if Everton play better without the fans as I've read numerous times our fanbase is the cause for bad performances.
They're saying that footballers and club staff do not need to conform to social distancing with the only caveat that they'll be tested thus making them exempt.
What message does that set? Do the public not need to follow the guidelines too? Why are footballers being prioritised for testing over other people?
That's before talking about all the resources needed to run the league, so unless there's major changes in govt. guidelines I think that it's absolutely mad.
I suspect they will be getting some support for the idea because it'll bring around some form of normality for the population, but in reality it's money talking.
If the league does start again in June, there's no way it isn't going to have a detrimental impact on next season (congestion etc.) so why bother.
It would be like watching those tiresome pre season friendlies against Scottish opposition where nobody seems to give a shizz.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
They are just keeping to the status quo (start as early as it's 'declared safe to do so' and finish the season) as they haven't a clue on the best move.
Carragher was pretty brutal saying the time to make decisions can't just be put off forever, seems as if they know all too well the pitfalls of choosing any option and are frightened to make any move at all.
Rather like being in a chess game were every possible move will result in a losing position and inevitable check mate.
Carragher was pretty brutal saying the time to make decisions can't just be put off forever, seems as if they know all too well the pitfalls of choosing any option and are frightened to make any move at all.
Rather like being in a chess game were every possible move will result in a losing position and inevitable check mate.
Players are starting to get edgy now too. Willian has now spoken out about being scared to play incase one of his teammates or one of the opposition carries the virus and he then takes it home to his family. This is the reality, playing behind closed doors and isolation of players etc is all pie in the sky stuff. Players won’t play if it’s not 100% safe to do so.
Image the implications regarding players insurance too. If they try to fast track this over the line can't see any insurance company touching any of them with a pre disinfected barge pole in that situation.
mccole
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How are the PFA going to convince all these players to just ignore the legal and insurance implementation to play in a league which lets face it is done?
Not to mention, talk of them taking a paycut too plus UEFA will want their tournaments completed after pulling the Euros for clubs to finish, if leagues get in the way or prevent this, then they will risk missing out on next season's European competition.
Clubs will have been given a number of scenarios but as each day passes and more deaths will continue, the inevitable will happen.
Not to mention, talk of them taking a paycut too plus UEFA will want their tournaments completed after pulling the Euros for clubs to finish, if leagues get in the way or prevent this, then they will risk missing out on next season's European competition.
Clubs will have been given a number of scenarios but as each day passes and more deaths will continue, the inevitable will happen.
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