catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Like transfer deadline day, they can only make a decision with hours left. Thats where we are heading too.
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Like transfer deadline day, they can only make a decision with hours left. Thats where we are heading too.
We're talking about not playing 90 minute games now? Come on, someones got to realize this is all madness.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
You can't change the rules half way through and not expect major litigation though. People are legitimately going to say, on PPG what weightings have you given to home and away fixtures, a teams ability to finish a season well, difficulty of sides faced etc.
I think the season will get finished so it won't matter.
These games will get finished behind closed doors. Players and backroom staffs safety will get thrown out of the window to get the season finished.
Jamiednm
Player Valuation: £40m
Doubt it. We're currently locked down in our own homes. It is a massive road to recovery to even think about opening borders to anything other than essential travel, let alone playing international competitions. And even if just one major footballing country in Europe suffers a second peak, it will throw the entirety of pan-European competition in to disarray.
Anyway, even if there were some level of European football, the idea of placing teams based on their UEFA coefficient has already been suggested.
Jamiednm
Player Valuation: £40m
No chance. Not when agents realise their prized assets are being thrown to the wolves for the benefit of the leagues. They're not going to sit back and watch their players contract career-ending lung problems. Not to mention insurance.
Archie Knox
Player Valuation: £20m
I mean, the method they select doesn't matter to me but I haven't read anywhere yet that they don't plan to have no European competition next season, as much sense as it would make like.
I'm sure they will eventually find a way for teams to play next season without fans, though.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Well I've re-read the post and see only one "might", "maybe" and "probably". However in fairness unless you're a top accountant or Daniel Levy it's not really appropriate for me to state things without a caveat that it could be the case. I don't know for certain, I just look at the numbers and take a view on it.
Spurs did have a 1 billion borrowing exercise, but as you have said have paid an enormous amount back as a big instalment (although I din't know how much of this payment would have been either a secondary loan, or part of an overdraft facility).
You are quite right to say though, the figure now owed is around the £650m mark.
The wider point remains though, owing such a figure, in a potentially deflationary market (particularly football) is a weakness. I don't know the finer terms of the loan, but it has been reported that it was relatively complex etc. Such loans can have certain milestones attached to ensure you keep the low interest rate. It could be many things, cash reserves, ST money, not showing a loss of x value etc but I do wonder if the stories about wanting to move Harry Kane on emerged coincidentally at that point?
I had a look at Spurs accounts and actually Spurs are probably a bit better placed than I put last night. Certainly 2018/19 accounts were strong, but I do think the wage bill has taken a rise since that point? Is that your understanding? I mean I initially argued against Spurs being the problem club on here when it first was broached.
Without getting too complex though, there are repayments due on a loan and at present the avenue to want to do that isn't there. In some businesses such a short term shock to the system can cause wider issues. Even with a strong set of accounts, net cash flow was quite low. You also have to factor in, no massive CL run this season, likely no European football next season, what impacts may this have?
The wider elephant in the room here, is that you've been a team on the slide for 18 months. From 2019 onwards your performances has really been indicative of a lower mid table team. While there was some hope Mourinho could turn it around quickly (as he tends too) there has been little evidence of this. He will have presumably been given some spending promises that may not be able to be met. What impact might that have?
Jamiednm
Player Valuation: £40m
Well they're not dictating this, the virus is.
Insurance will be sorted out this week.
The agents will be concerned when their assets are asked to take a pay cut if they don't play.
The chairman of the premier league will vote for the season to restart. Too much money is involved.
I don't agree with it but cash is king.
Archie Knox
Player Valuation: £20m
Let's see. It would clearly make sense not to run European football, but we can see that currently actually money is dictating a fair bit, hence why our league hasn't been pulled yet. They will surely investigate every angle possible to maintain as normal a schedule as allows.
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
May as well just play tennis to decide the outcome when you don't play home and away in your own stadium with supporters to help you. Then you are allowed 5 substitutes per match, you play in face masks and you don't even play 90 minutes. All it does is play into the hands of the big clubs who are used to playing every few days, have larger squads to cope with this with more quality players to rotate.
Teams screwed over where they had to play rivals earlier in the season away and maybe lost and were looking forward to getting them back on their own patch. It just is a load of crap, like shoehorning an elephant into a mini just for the sake of it and realising afterwards it was never possible.
Shevin Keedy
Player Valuation: £35m
Well cash was king but that was before Covid 19. No amount of money can save anyone from a global pandemic. Now the virus decides what happens and we should be careful not to anger it.
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