Zatman Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Problem in Serie A is that an even larger amount of players end loans or are out of contract on June 30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Fresh off the press from the mother in law... No football crowds allowed in Germany until 1st September!! (also no concerts etc) Bundesliga going back to the government asking for "ghost" games behind closed doors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) Scotland have pretty much agreed to end the season now in the lower leagues though Hearts are looking for the league to be expanded Edited April 15, 2020 by Zatman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Long read but interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 1 hour ago, sne said: Long read but interesting. In a way this is good for football. The amount of stupid money going kn in this sport it needs a reality check. Hopefully the daya of paying 20m for a standard player go back to half that figure or less Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 16 hours ago, Demitri_C said: In a way this is good for football. The amount of stupid money going kn in this sport it needs a reality check. Hopefully the daya of paying 20m for a standard player go back to half that figure or less a 50% reduction in wages too for the top earners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Hopefully it resets a few things. The difference in TV money from the Championship to the Premier League is mind boggling. Its roughly £100m difference You get teams like Bournemouth spending a huge % of their turnover purely on wages. Something has to give Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Xela said: Hopefully it resets a few things. The difference in TV money from the Championship to the Premier League is mind boggling. Its roughly £100m difference You get teams like Bournemouth spending a huge % of their turnover purely on wages. Something has to give Teams are going to go undoubtedly if nothing changes. I think they might relax FFP for a year or two. Lucky for us if our owners are happy to put money in again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 Spanish FA have proposed season ends with all the European positions taken by the top 7 teams. No title awarded but no mention of relegation. The big 3 havent came out aginst this idea yet, only Getafe and Valencia so far oppose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Getafe out of the CL places thanks to the head to head im not surprised they don't like it! would mean no Valencia or Atletico in the CL, its really tight for 4th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardiffGreens Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Zatman said: No title awarded but no mention of relegation. According to this article on EPSN (https://www.espn.com/soccer/spanish-primera-division/story/4085956/coronavirus-fa-propose-no-la-liga-champions-barca-real-madrid-in-ucl-sources it's a quirk of the Spanish football governance. It's the RFEF who have proposed this solution of awarding European competition places to the current top 7 in the league standings (if the league cannot be completed) Quote The RFEF, though, do have the last word on which Spanish teams qualify for Europe, while La Liga will have the final say on deciding the league title and relegation from Spain's top flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted April 19, 2020 Moderator Share Posted April 19, 2020 Internationally UEFA/FIFA are currently proposing the following: Euro 2021 qualification playoffs - to be played later this summer UEFA Nations League 2020 - six match days to be played between September and November of this year. Euro 2021 - to be played between 11th June and 11th July 2021 World Cup 2022 qualifying - twelve match days to be played between March 2021 and March 2022 UEFA Nations League 2022 - 2nd June - 27th September 2022 World Cup 2022 - 21st November 2022 to 18th December 2022 Plus you can throw in the national tournaments of the other federations, the AFCON, the CONCACAF tournament etc and there will be the usual friendlies and the Olympic tournament in 2021 - it's a potentially horrendously packed schedule all on its own - without fitting in two full seasons and two part seasons of domestic football in that time too! A European international player could end up playing 50 games over that two and a bit years - something will have to give. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 19, 2020 Author Share Posted April 19, 2020 Irish health minister seems to think no live sports will go ahead in Ireland until 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Roma players and coaching staff waiving their salaries for the rest of the season (or 4 months) so that the club can pay their other staff and they are also helping out by chipping in with the extra money to cover what's left. Nice! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 20, 2020 Author Share Posted April 20, 2020 lower league clubs in England are threatening to boycott games if its played behind closed doors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Remarkable how this was ever allowed to go ahead: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 3 hours ago, Zatman said: lower league clubs in England are threatening to boycott games if its played behind closed doors I’m not surprised. Football behind closed doors only benefits clubs that don’t need fans in the U.K. to survive. FWIW, I think the whole of next season is being planned to be played behind closed doors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 20, 2020 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2020 2 hours ago, The_Steve said: Remarkable how this was ever allowed to go ahead: Love it in these press conferences when the doctors and scientists don't play along with the Tory "Everything is perfect we did nothing wrong" bullshit. Rishi's answer to the same question was "we've made the right decisions at the right time" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Sturgeon prohibiting SPL to return even BCD. Seems a bit early to make that call, and it doesn't bode well for other leagues, and concerts, etc. Cruise industry is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 9 hours ago, Delphinho123 said: FWIW, I think the whole of next season is being planned to be played behind closed doors. Has anyone watched a full 90 mins of this ? I have managed a few minutes but it is garbage IMO. You could maybe get away with 1 game televised behind closed doors in extreme circumstances maybe as a last resort, but the thought of 80 games like this and the sheer madness of it as even a concept in a brainstorm is mind boggling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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