New statement from PL; games postponed till 30 April

[Paris]

The government does not believe that the tide will start to turn for at least another 12 weeks. That takes us to the second week of June - absolutely no chance that this season resumes.

It's over. Done. Finished. Kaput. Fini. Terminado. 終わった. 完了. เสร็จ. បញ្ចប់

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

Reckon we will finish this season then next season the FA cup and League cup will be binned.

I don't see it personally.

After the trauma this virus situation causes both physically and mentally to employees of clubs, they will just want to start from new. Players need pre season and contracts sorting. No one other than 1, possibly 3 maximum, have any real reason to be disappointed with this scenario.

Rip it up and start again once things have hopefully stabilised.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Oh and UEFA cannot enforce national leagues to when they finish. They can stop them from entering their UEFA competitions but the PL will determine when they finish. English football authorities have always been the sort to go by their own accord. A product as big as the PL isn't going to be directed by UEFA.

They know how big of a story it would be to see Liverpool end their 30 year wait. The PL product will only benefit from that, and they will want to see that come to fruition.

Money talks.

This is abject nonsense.

UEFA will ultimately call what happens. As they will decide if their current CL / EL competitions complete or are voided. If they decide that once June 30th has passed it makes it too problematic to finish them, and that they’ll start afresh next season. Then that ends any idea of us completing the domestic season here.

 

[Groucho]

@MattEFC89 @havrey0123 stay pressed lol

Scum

What’s all this please?

 

[catcherintherye]

Sir, in the face of this pandemic I think you will find that, in football terms, money will not be“talking” it will be whispering.

All the money in the world will get football back one minute before it is safe to do so.

And the RS “ending their 30 years wait” is no “big story” in the football world at large.

It is only so in the minds of their own deluded fans and the embedded Kopites on Sky and BT.

This is a useful way to look at this. In the abstract Liverpool winning the league is a good story for the EPL/UEFA and wirth a few quid. It's why some questionable decisions go there way.

The stakes at hand are now far beyond just Liverpool winning the league. There is going to be massive holes to pay back. Trying to prevent a massive shock, turning into a contagion within the eco structure of football will be the priority. This is going to be done, alongside the biggest shock to the world in peacetime since the Great Depression.

We are 2 weeks behind Italy. They have 4000 dead and hundreds dying each day. Thats with full lockdown.

The situation is already moving, and it's only going one way in terms of whats being said.

They won't announce cancellation and voiding until the situation is dire. Bury the the bad news on a day with much bigger news. Essentially do it when LFC would look really petty and churlish to complain and will be turned on for doing so. In 4 weeks time, unless nothing changes we have that moment.

 

[BlueShark]

The government does not believe that the tide will start to turn for at least another 12 weeks. That takes us to the second week of June - absolutely no chance that this season resumes.

It's over. Done. Finished. Kaput. Fini. Terminado. 終わった. 完了. เสร็จ. បញ្ចប់

Exactly. To try and pick up a season from there would be ridiculous, it wouldn't even feel like the current season at that point.

 

[RomanReigns]

It looks like the big issue is that there is 700+mil of money outstanding for TV games. If the season is declared null and void the premier league would have to presumably repay that money back to the tv companies.

this is probably why they keep postponing it

would the government bail them out if it was null and void. I presume first and foremost the clubs would have to repay about 35 mil each

now the top clubs might be able to do that but Sheffield United, villa, Norwich etc most certainly wouldn’t be able to. Would the government bail these clubs out?

 

[Khalekan]

It looks like the big issue is that there is 700+mil of money outstanding for TV games. If the season is declared null and void the premier league would have to presumably repay that money back to the tv companies.

this is probably why they keep postponing it

would the government bail them out if it was null and void. I presume first and foremost the clubs would have to repay about 35 mil each

now the top clubs might be able to do that but Sheffield United, villa, Norwich etc most certainly wouldn’t be able to. Would the government bail these clubs out?

They probably wouldn’t need to pay it back as such.

Just extend the current deal long enough to cover the outstanding money.

So I don’t see the £700 million being an insurmountable problem.

 

[Saint Domingo]

The PL should be funneling money down to the lower leagues to keep them afloat not just thinking of their own gravy train as always. That league is awash with decades of tv money so none of them should be complaining about lost revenue.

 

[RomanReigns]

They probably wouldn’t need to pay it back as such.

Just extend the current deal long enough to cover the outstanding money.

So I don’t see the £700 million being an insurmountable problem.

i think its a contractual issue and extending the current deal would be a breach of it

 

[Khalekan]

i think its a contractual issue and extending the current deal would be a breach of it

In normal circumstance, yes.

But all bets are off in this strange new paradigm.

Some people are already referring to an era known as BC (Before Corona) to describe those “innocent” days before the virus struck.

Creative thinking will be required by both parties if and when the virus abates and the world tries to pick up the pieces.

And being stubbornly hogtied to a deal negotiated in another era will benefit no one.

 

[Khalekan]

The PL should be funneling money down to the lower leagues to keep them afloat not just thinking of their own gravy train as always. That league is awash with decades of tv money so none of them should be complaining about lost revenue.

Sadly the players and agents have siphoned off most of that decades worth of dough, Dom.

 

[Seathestars]

Juventus player found positive

 

[catcherintherye]

Juventus player found positive

Thats likely to be Serie A ended. Mind you hasn't Hudson Odoi got it?

 

[Seathestars]

Thats likely to be Serie A ended. Mind you hasn't Hudson Odoi got it?

Yes he has, so did Arteta.