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Author Topic: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?  (Read 746524 times)

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1635 on: April 03, 2020, 02:25:40 PM »
It looks like they may accept the inevitable tomorrow.


I think they will drag it out for a bit longer yet.

Really astonishing the FA haven't taken a very pragmatic view on this, for all kinds of reasons the season has to now end, one for absolute closure, its done, forget it, two, you have to consider the season stopped at a time when players where totally focused, at the very pinnacle of there powers and season, in order to best achieve certain targets, overnight that vanished and for a long time now they have been languishing around home, bit of lite training, then because the FA says so they have to start right back up at where they left of with so much is at stake,  some players will manage that, most certainly won't, its completely unfair on teams that could expect to finish in the top 6, get relegated and other such targets that that now won't happen, or will in the case of relegation,  we all know what most teams and players look like at the start of the season and how teams and players look, come March/April/May time, chalk and cheese.

If I was Dean Smith I would insist the squad gets a full pre-season, that's how crazy this is and how crucial.   

Premier league isn't going to be void anytime soon while there is (wildly optimistic talk) of restarting seasons in Germany and Italy within next 8 weeks.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1636 on: April 03, 2020, 02:36:24 PM »
From the Beeb's website:
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All 20 Premier League clubs will meet via video and it is accepted by all that there is no hope of professional games being played immediately after the current 30 April deadline.
The Premier League could shift the date back into May or opt to follow Spain and France, who have shut down their leagues for an indefinite period.
Italy have talked of Serie A returning in late May, but that seems optimistic.
European governing body Uefa has written a joint letter with the European Clubs' Association and the European Leagues urging domestic bodies not to abandon their competitions.
Leagues across Europe have been told that ending competitions early could result in them forfeiting Champions League and Europa League places.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1637 on: April 03, 2020, 02:43:48 PM »
That last line stinks!

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1638 on: April 03, 2020, 02:52:46 PM »
I wonder what impact all this will have upon transfer fees in the summer? Holding onto you best players for one more season, in the hope things get better or sell because you’ve really go to I guess. If financially sound (whatever that is) coming out out of this, you’re going to have a big advantage.
One way of dealing with the premature ending of this season may  be to suspend the transfer window in  the summer, to try and maintain the same competitive dynamic that existed pre-virus.

Not a chance of that happening.

Interesting.  I guess each player would have to accept a year extension to their current contracts too.
I quite like the idea although that is mainly because I hate the circus that is the transfer window.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1639 on: April 03, 2020, 02:52:51 PM »
There will be likely no european competitions next season unless it's just straight knock out mini one at the end of the season.

It could very easily just be this season's competition finishing off.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1640 on: April 03, 2020, 03:04:14 PM »
Just an observation on the players taking a pay cut thing. If they did that, the owners would be the ones making money. The owners of clubs are the real rich ones. Which is why Spurs and others Furloughing staff is such a fucking disgrace.

Footballers do earn too much but this isn't their issue. We've seen from our own Tyrone Mings that footballers do good things with their money (as well as many idiots too of course).

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1641 on: April 03, 2020, 03:12:08 PM »
The financial issues of the pandemic are so huge that what happens to football clubs and football players is only a spit in the ocean.  Any deal cobbled together while the disease rages will fall apart within days if not hours.
Indeed. The so called £750M is nothing really as well. At worst it's £35M loss for every PL club  and at best will be negotiated down and deducted from future payments.

If they did kill it off, and promote Albion and Leeds, it would also make it easy for them to sweeten Sky by giving them more matches for their money next season.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1642 on: April 03, 2020, 03:20:09 PM »
A bit like the cooks on the Titanic wondering if they should only serve a continental breakfast, it may not matter.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1643 on: April 03, 2020, 03:41:28 PM »
What, do you think this is it for humanity?

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1644 on: April 03, 2020, 03:42:36 PM »
A bit like the cooks on the Titanic wondering if they should only serve a continental breakfast, it may not matter.

If true that is amazing. There is never a correct time to serve a continental breakfast.


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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1645 on: April 03, 2020, 03:56:42 PM »
The financial issues of the pandemic are so huge that what happens to football clubs and football players is only a spit in the ocean.  Any deal cobbled together while the disease rages will fall apart within days if not hours.
Indeed. The so called £750M is nothing really as well. At worst it's £35M loss for every PL club  and at best will be negotiated down and deducted from future payments.

If they did kill it off, and promote Albion and Leeds, it would also make it easy for them to sweeten Sky by giving them more matches for their money next season.

Yeah, but unfortunately for Sky those more matches will involve Albion and Leeds.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1646 on: April 03, 2020, 04:02:12 PM »
It would be quite unfair to tell players whose contracts expire that they are not allowed to sign for another club. Perhaps a decent compromise between the PFA and the league would that players accept a 25% cut, but clubs carry on paying those whose contracts have expired until normality resumes.

Would clubs actually sign players if they know they weren't playing for months on end? See it all the time with players you could easily sign in May but clubs don't bother until late July so they can save a few months wages and that's knowing a season will start in 2-3 weeks.

Generally you can't sign anyone till 1st July, players are contracted to their previous club until 30th June. So they're not delaying signing players to save money, they're not allowed to get them any earlier.

In this case though, yes, clubs generally won't want to sign players when there is no immediate prospect of any games. That's why, if I was Gordon Taylor, I'd be trying to get some confirmation that out of contract players would still be looked after.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1647 on: April 03, 2020, 04:02:29 PM »
That last line stinks!

Yeah, if they're not on it UEFA really need to go on the c**t list.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1648 on: April 03, 2020, 04:04:13 PM »
The financial issues of the pandemic are so huge that what happens to football clubs and football players is only a spit in the ocean.  Any deal cobbled together while the disease rages will fall apart within days if not hours.
Indeed. The so called £750M is nothing really as well. At worst it's £35M loss for every PL club  and at best will be negotiated down and deducted from future payments.

If they did kill it off, and promote Albion and Leeds, it would also make it easy for them to sweeten Sky by giving them more matches for their money next season.

Yeah, but unfortunately for Sky those more matches will involve Albion and Leeds.

Leeds could easily take 200,000 fans to each away game so I'm guessing they must have at least fourteen billion supporters worldwide. Bound to shift a few satellite dishes. All four West Brom fans will be rushing out to buy them, too. Just as soon as the Black Country gets electricity.

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Re: How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?
« Reply #1649 on: April 03, 2020, 04:05:23 PM »
They'll want all the Albion games shown just in case one of their fans shits themselves on live TV again.

 


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