How much will Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact Aston Villa's season?

[nick harper]

The suggestion the season can’t go beyond 30 June seems to be gaining momentum given the contractual complications which almost certainly means it can’t be ended.

The Times has looked at the different approaches to determining the final table including points per game, using the first 19 games of the season only, and even predicting the final fixtures using home and away form. Every one has us relegated, Norwich and either Bournemouth or Watford.

The champions league places would also be the same apart from Sheffield United getting a place in one of the scenarios.

It would need at least 6 clubs to vote against if any of these solutions were proposed.

[chrisw1]

You'd think the only clubs who would vote against would be the bottom 3 and maybe teams in 6&7th?

[aev]

Once they decide to cancel the season id be stunned if they relegated anyone with so many games left.

[sid1964]

Read that Tour de France is going ahead in August - could it be that the new season may start in September?

[ROBBO]

The league would be well aware that the Villa owners have the clout to drag them through the courts spending millions of dollars they don't have, interesting days ahead.

[Mister E]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/15/premier-league-clubs-ending-season-30-june

A commitment to completing the season before the start of July is among the options being considered by Premier League clubs, the Guardian understands.
The clubs are due to meet on Friday in the latest attempt to pick a way through the Covid-19 crisis. A resolution to consign the 2019-20 campaign to history by 30 June, whether or not the entire schedule of games has been completed, will be among the proposals put to the league.
According to some reports, one of the most significant factors driving the idea to finish by that point – favoured by a large number of the league’s members – is the expiry of numerous player and staff contracts by the end of June. One executive from a leading club told the Guardian he was relatively relaxed, with Fifa having issued guidelines last week stating contracts can be extended until such time as the season ends. But he admitted the subject was on the table, with other clubs worried that English contractual law would render the governing body’s stipulations irrelevant. That would lead to hundreds of potentially unresolved situations should fixtures be honoured into July. In theory, an out-of-contract player could then stand himself down from action even if still relied upon by his club for its remaining games.
If the proposal to settle the season by 30 June is put to a vote, the Premier League would require a 14-club majority to approve any decision. Should it go through, the chances of completing a 38-game schedule would appear distinctly remote. Most teams have nine games left to play while four – Manchester City, Sheffield United, Arsenal and Aston Villa – must play 10. While clubs in Germany have returned to training, that scenario is still some way off in England. Then there would be the issue of getting players match-fit ahead of what, even if the league was cleared to resume behind closed doors at the start of June, would be an intense schedule.
Curtailing the campaign along the proposed lines would not equate to voiding it if some fixtures remain unplayed, although it is unclear what efforts would be required to land upon a final league table that broadly satisfied everyone. Redoubling efforts to draw a line under 2019-20 would, the clubs believe, mean planning for 2020-21 could take place under less of a cloud and reduce the extent to which two seasons are hampered by the crisis.

I think this is highly likely. The only issue will how they resolve the outstanding issues.As I said in an earlier post, the focus has to be on creating a fresh start for next season - everyone should look forward rather than try to square the unsquarable circle that is the 2019-20 season.

[aj2k77]

There's 10 games to play. A huge part of the season. Mathematical solutions don't work. Football isn't played on paper.

[frank black]

At some point (mass testing)we will all carry cards confirming that we have had the Virus, that will allow access to events such as premier league games.

[simboy]

if the season is extended to July or August, contracts agreed on a week by week basis but a player is going to Inter Milan, all signed sealed and delivered, but is injured in July and out for eight months, who will pick up the tab?   

[exigo]

At some point (mass testing)we will all carry cards confirming that we have had the Virus, that will allow access to events such as premier league games.

There are already people reportedly catching it a second time.

[Villan82]

I highly doubt they’ll relegate anyone from the PL if the season cannot continue but it also just pisses me of even more to think how insipid performances at Southampton, Bournemouth and Leicester have put us even in that discussion. What a time to offer up shite like we did.

We should have had 2 points from that, minimum. Why couldn't he make us hard to beat? Across the season we must have dropped 5-6 points.

Anyway, the game in hand could have taken us out of the bottom three. If they were to relegate us I think I would pack it in.

[Ads]

Thats not true. The issuing is with testing.

[aev]

This doesn’t sound too good either

 “ A total of 141 people who had apparently recovered from Covid-19 have tested positive again, South Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) says”.

[phantom limb]

This doesn’t sound too good either

 “ A total of 141 people who had apparently recovered from Covid-19 have tested positive again, South Korea's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) says”.

I watched an interview with one of the main doctors there yesterday and he confirmed some of the patients they’d discharged have tested positive again, but they don’t know if that means the tests were inaccurate, whether they’ve caught the virus again, or whether the virus just went dormant in their system and then came back. Whatever the reason, it’s not good news and would certainly affect the return to normality for all of us, especially with regard to large gatherings.

[frank black]

At some point (mass testing)we will all carry cards confirming that we have had the Virus, that will allow access to events such as premier league games.

There are already people reportedly catching it a second time.

I think these are cases maybe when it never fully left them. They suspect you can only get it once but are still not 100% sure yet. Still testing/researching