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

[Steve67]

German football resuming May 15th.

Even with 10 of them testing positive today?

[PaulWinch again]

That’s bloody stupid as well, 10 positive tests already.

[Legion]

Madness.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep, does football need to be played? No it doesn’t. If I were a player, member of staff etc I wouldn’t feel safe at all.

[Steve67]

It's absolutely nothing to do with having to pay Sky/BT £760million in compo. Honest guv!

[aev]

It's absolutely nothing to do with having to pay Sky/BT £760million in compo. Honest guv!

The crazy thing is 38m will so quickly be spaffed up the wall on a couple of average new players.

[David_Nab]

I don't know what is so difficult to grasp with many Journo's that neutral venues are not equal because it takes away away both home and away advantage , conveniently forgetting the rest of the season wasn't played with these rules

I have zero doubt that us at home with a full house against Shef United in our game in hand would have been played with a loud home crowd driving the team on is now taken away and make's it a harder game for us and easier for them.

If we are going to say it doesn't matter then why don't we just play every season going forward with games at random stadiums

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11979873/which-premier-league-clubs-benefit-from-games-behind-closed-doors

71% of our points are home games

[Lastfootstamper]

German football resuming May 15th.

I still can't see anything definite about that. But there is this, Salomon Kalou breaks social distancing rules as 10 test positive, just in case you needed reminding what a prat footballer looks like.

Edit: although it does give the impression that his club aren't taking it that seriously either.

[Steve67]

Absolutely crazy in agreeing to play at neutral venues and completely do away with any home advantage at all.  I hope we are already engaged with solicitors.  If I have any faith in us battling our way to safety, I probably wouldn't feel as strongly about it to be fair, but surely to God we'd want to take any advantage we possibly could. 

[ChicagoLion]

It's absolutely nothing to do with having to pay Sky/BT £760million in compo. Honest guv!

What else could it be?

[Villan82]

Totally disillusioned. I don't even know where to start? It's a joke and very unfair on us.

[David_Nab]

Which of us would go to VP in September - reduced capacity or otherwise - for a game if there wasn’t a vaccine in place? I’ll start, not me.

I would

I’d be there

I think I would, but it will depend on what the situation is like at the time.  If it's still rife, then maybe not, if it's just handfuls of cases then yes probably.

Re player X - I stil think it sounds like Deeny.

That wouldn't surprise me.

Deeney's a good shout but I'm pretty sure it's Delph, if you read it and imagine it in his voice it fits perfectly and then you have the talk of Man City contracts and the hints towards being liverpool based. He's about the right age and profile, both in terms of family and his place in the game. I also think (and I'm sure there's been posts on here backing this up) that the biggest problem when he left us was talking before he stopped to think, which fits well with someone willing to have a conversation like this.

Yeah I think Delph is a good call.

Who ever it is is dead on about how shit it will be and players not being up for it.

[Seb_AVFC]

Hungarian football season will restart on May 23 behind closed doors.

[adrenachrome]

It's absolutely nothing to do with having to pay Sky/BT £760million in compo. Honest guv!

The crazy thing is 38m will so quickly be spaffed up the wall on a couple of average new players.

Good point.

But the money has to flow. Turn of the spigot and the whole system grinds to a halt.

[Footy-Vill]

Chelsea players who had been spending the lockdown back in their home countries rather than in London or the UK have all returned. That's players coming in somehow from Brazil , Spain , USA , Italy.

How is that even allowed and does that mean they are getting ready for the next game which is V is at the Villa?
Or in Ilse of Wight or something?

Football madness.