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

[VinnieChase84]

Managers and players have already had it. It WILL happen again. Then what? Leagues a joke, we all know they only care about ££. Health should be before wealth.
If you a mid table side playing for ‘nothing’ , would those players want to put themselves at risk just to see the season out?

[john2710]

Haven't Sky said they're not looking to recoup the money from PL clubs?

Wouldn't the likelihood that much of next seasons games will played behind closed doors mean that Sky would get more revenue / advertising from showing more games?

[Steve67]

Yes it is - many tens of thousands of businesses around the world will go bust as a direct result of this pandemic yet you persist in believing that football is a special case. Most clubs are living a financial lie and sadly this crisis might finally cause some of them to fold.

Most businesses will probably be allowed to be up and running again in May, let alone June, July or August.  Yet you persist in believing that football is a special case and should not be even allowed to discuss a potential future.

To put it bluntly deaths have approximately halved in the last 7 to 10 days.  Say, hypothetically, we are down to no deaths by mid June and the lockdown has largely ended.  Would it still be wrong to look at behind closed doors games take place in August?  If not this season ending then next season starting.  Or do you believe next season should be written off too, probably with the result of dozens of long established clubs going to the wall?

If we are down to no deaths and lockdown has largely ended, why not allow the fans back in?  Hypothetically.

[ChicagoLion]

Haven't Sky said they're not looking to recoup the money from PL clubs?

Wouldn't the likelihood that much of next seasons games will played behind closed doors mean that Sky would get more revenue / advertising from showing more games?

Will Sky be able to charge the same amount to punters and advertisers following and probably during the worst recession ever and unemployment at levels never seen before?
I don’t think they have thought about the economic impact and what it is going to do to their business model.

[paul_e]

Are we even sure deaths have halved? I think a lot of this depends upon how you determine the numbers.

There is a chart that showing European excess deaths so far above their “normal" levels for the time of yr. In other countries excess mortality is falling. In England it's still rising.

I don't want to misquote figures, I was just basing it on the reported hospital deaths although we all know wider deaths will be much higher.

All I was trying to say is that for me, I'm really hoping this virus will be under control come late summer.  In those circumstances I can see sports seasons starting behind closed doors in August or September.  Following that rationale, I was just querying if that does become the case, is it that much of a stretch for the PL to just discuss the possibility that the first games will be the conclusion of the current season?  I appreciate for some it is distateful for the PL to even discuss it, but given the potential financial impact on some clubs, I think it would be negligent for them not to at least explore it.

But hopefully the French announcement will put pressure on them and this will all be put to bed shortly. 

In this hypothetical version where the league finishes in August:
How are European places awarded seeing as the first games would be scheduled before our season finishes?
Is there a pre-season break after it concludes to allow for transfers, etc? - if promotion and relegation are retained there's need to be something to address that.
How does this impact the 20/21 season? - remember that season can't run long because of the rescheduled Euros so everything has to finish by late May.
There is still the problem of player and sponsor contracts to resolve if things run past the end of June, any thoughts on that?
No prize money can be given out until the season is void or complete so clubs that are expecting a big chunk of cash next month would have to wait until August. Is that not just as big a risk of seeing clubs fold as many are already running up huge debts?

There's a lot more issues than that but those alone should be enough to show that, as I've been saying all along, if football can be played come august/september then they need to end this season and focus on getting things ready for that.

You can answer if you like, or you can sulk again, either works.

[walsall villain]

Haven't Sky said they're not looking to recoup the money from PL clubs?

Wouldn't the likelihood that much of next seasons games will played behind closed doors mean that Sky would get more revenue / advertising from showing more games?

I wonder what the demand would be for watching behind closed doors football week in week out? Uncharted territory.

[David_Nab]

Haven't Sky said they're not looking to recoup the money from PL clubs?

Wouldn't the likelihood that much of next seasons games will played behind closed doors mean that Sky would get more revenue / advertising from showing more games?

It's not a one way street there is a reason Sky and BT pay so much for football , they could call the cash in and short term it would hit the clubs but long term is likely to see the PL look to run their own broadcasts ..Amazon would like more of the action and DAZN are looking to get into the UK market

[Legion]

Wouldn't be interested in the slightest, to be honest.

[VinnieChase84]

The other thing about all this BCD and games every 3/4 days all shown on tv. We might all be back at work by then. So this country moral boost of showing sport will be totally missed when they show villa place on a Tuesday at 3pm kick off

[john2710]

Haven't Sky said they're not looking to recoup the money from PL clubs?

Wouldn't the likelihood that much of next seasons games will played behind closed doors mean that Sky would get more revenue / advertising from showing more games?

I wonder what the demand would be for watching behind closed doors football week in week out? Uncharted territory.

Whatever the outcome it'll mean football moving even further towards a TV audience.

[Ads]

Does it take a player, coach or official to die before they'll see the absurdity of their plans?

[AV82EC]

Does it take a player, coach or official to die before they'll see the absurdity of their plans?

With these money grubbing bastards? Probably....

[Richard E]

Does it take a player, coach or official to die before they'll see the absurdity of their plans?

With these money grubbing bastards? Probably....

Yes. I think it does.

[walsall villain]

Wouldn't be interested in the slightest, to be honest.

Me neither. It’s always been about being there for me, don’t like watching televised villa games much and ‘no atmosphere’ tv would be crap

[aldridgeboy]

Haven't Sky said they're not looking to recoup the money from PL clubs?

Wouldn't the likelihood that much of next seasons games will played behind closed doors mean that Sky would get more revenue / advertising from showing more games?

I wonder what the demand would be for watching behind closed doors football week in week out? Uncharted territory.

Whatever the outcome it'll mean football moving even further towards a TV audience.

Before the virus came along, I was wondering how IPTV was going to affect sky. It really seems to be on the rise, which can only be bad for Sky ( and BT). I see lots more people paying £40 a year for all the channels, which I think is probably cheaper than a single month ?

That, plus the recession that’s likely to come, surely mean a bed few years for Sky coming up?