LakotaDakota Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 (edited) National league now suspended until at least April 3rd too, NPL suspended indefnitely. Will be a few small clubs go tits up over this Edited March 16, 2020 by LakotaDakota Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighavfc Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 (edited) Sky sports pumping out their absolute bullsh*t transfer centre articles as per usual... "Kane prefers United over City" yada yada Edited March 16, 2020 by leighavfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, LakotaDakota said: National league now suspended until at least April 3rd too, NPL suspended indefnitely. Will be a few small clubs go tits up over this Surely football is rich enough to help out the smaller clubs in such times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 My son (9) will be absolutely gutted, his team cancelled all training and matches for the foreseeable future on FA guidance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighavfc Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 4 minutes ago, PaulC said: Surely football is rich enough to help out the smaller clubs in such times I was listening to the price of football pod with Kieran Maguire earlier. He was saying that most clubs in league 1, and 2 will need something like a 300 k loan to get through until we can get football back on again. Some clubs like southend and Mansfield (maybe macclesfield?) Cant pay wages now so will probably be deep in it by the time football resumes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted March 16, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted March 16, 2020 13 minutes ago, leighavfc said: I was listening to the price of football pod with Kieran Maguire earlier. He was saying that most clubs in league 1, and 2 will need something like a 300 k loan to get through until we can get football back on again. Some clubs like southend and Mansfield (maybe macclesfield?) Cant pay wages now so will probably be deep in it by the time football resumes. 300k until april 3rd or if they write off the rest of the season?? If so I think a premier league player could adopt a club for a few months that would be a nice gesture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 (edited) UEFA to make a decision on the EURO's tomorrow but if you want a hint of what it will be they have apparently cancelled all their bookings of all the hotels they had booked in Copenhagen Denmark for this summer. RIP EURO's, obviously the correct call. In other news Valencia who were forced to go to Bergamo and play Atalanta in the CL have now had 9 players or 35% of their squad test positive for the Corona virus. Edit: Game was moved to Milan but same region Lombardy Edited March 17, 2020 by sne 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighavfc Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 (edited) 45 minutes ago, S-Platt said: 300k until april 3rd or if they write off the rest of the season?? If so I think a premier league player could adopt a club for a few months that would be a nice gesture. I think if they were to cancel the season. And rules mean this cant happen, it would have to come from the FA, or EFL I think. See when Bill Kenwright tried to give Bury 1.5 million to help them last year. The EFL dont have that money, and the FA have loads of money tied up in euro 2020. He also said clubs that are up for charges for example Southend, wouldnt be allowed any help either due to financial problems/issues already. Will probably have to a special off situation as a lot of these clubs are definitely going to need help during this period of time! He was pretty adamant that more clubs will go under unless something is done. Edited March 16, 2020 by leighavfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 2 hours ago, sne said: In other news Valencia who were forced to go to Bergamo and play Atalanta in the CL have now had 9 players or 35% of their squad test positive for the Corona virus. Ouch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 2 hours ago, sne said: UEFA to make a decision on the EURO's tomorrow but if you want a hint of what it will be they have apparently cancelled all their bookings of all the hotels they had booked in Copenhagen Denmark for this summer. RIP EURO's, obviously the correct call. In other news Valencia who were forced to go to Bergamo and play Atalanta in the CL have now had 9 players or 35% of their squad test positive for the Corona virus. Was played in San Siro but take your point, have any of the Atalanta players tested positive yet? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) There will be 2 meetings today. First UEFA and the national associations and the second with the clubs. It was being reported this morning that UEFA will be asking for £275m from the associations and clubs to defer the Euro's. Edited March 17, 2020 by Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mic09 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Does anyone know what time the meetings are happening and when we can expect to hear anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Utd have cancelled training That's another nail in the coffin for this season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 Guardian did an article about what teams are doing. We were one of the few still with full training Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 You'd have thought we would have cancelled it followed by the idea of the games being played in June met with us saying we need pre season first pushing it back until July making it impossible Could back fire on us though I spose, mcginn especially we need to get fit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 (edited) Chelsea owner has lost 1/5 of his fortune since the outbreak started, 2.5 billion. Bo-ho serves them right you might say but this will go for most club owners, ours included. Abramovich is still filthy rich and the stock market will recover some day but how many of these guys will drop their interest in football, at least for a while to get their house in order? We are pretty much 100% dependent on our owners bailing us out, time and time again. And so are a lot of other clubs. Will our owners still be interested? Edited March 17, 2020 by sne Typo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Chinese league looking like it will be started on April 18th. Sill a lot that can happen before then but as I mentioned in another thread I think this one will be up and running long before any European league is restarted. If nothing else this will let us put all this Rafa Benitez nonsense behind us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 I would imagine players and fans would dread an away game vs Wuhan like a trip to the sty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 As expected the EURO's moved to next summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 Womens Euros next summer plus World Club Cup with top 8 teams from Europe. Interesting where UEFA schedule this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts