Will they be selling it to all those people who will become unemployed as we burn the economy waiting for a cure?
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Will they be selling it to all those people who will become unemployed as we burn the economy waiting for a cure?
Nobody can ask for a total refund, there's been over half a season of value and audiences and brand association.
Sky and BT may well be talking about what they paid too, and also negotiating downwards, depending on when it returns, because they've lost subs, advertising and audience.
The way they would see it is that If you are unemployed you need something to entertain you...Besides; don't you know...? All the unemployed have Sky, Flat screen tv, and cars paid for by the tax payers and those in work 😉
Contracts that have been breached will no doubt lead to lawsuits.
Clubs reliant on end of season central payments will bicker about where they might have finished.
Many clubs currently in limbo won't have time or resources to wait out the current delay and then wait while football associations and commercial partners wrangle about finance.
There are many other aspects, not limited to: player contracts, agent remuneration, phased payments etc
I don't think 'refunds' will enter into the conversations between sponsors and clubs they'll be subject to those famous T's&C's.
So not the sponsors then.
Commercial partners = sponsors.
Players, agents, and clubs are not sponsors.
In these trying times, we need a place that we can trust and rely on.
It looks like FIFA knows the seasons will be completed.
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Current contracts for players and coaches should be extended until the end of the delayed domestic football seasons, according to an internal Fifa document presented to its Coronavirus Working Group.
The confidential document, seen by Reuters, also recommends allowing transfer windows to be changed in accordance with new season dates and urges clubs and players to work together to find solutions to salary payments during stoppages.
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Current contracts for players and coaches should be extended until the end of the delayed domestic football seasons, according to an internal Fifa document presented to its Coronavirus Working Group.
The confidential document, seen by Reuters, also recommends allowing transfer windows to be changed in accordance with new season dates and urges clubs and players to work together to find solutions to salary payments during stoppages.
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What are steps 3 and 6? League one and below?
I think it’s national league level. So I’m guessing that’s below semi pro.
Let's face it, it makes perfect sense.
Unless you have rich clubs & leagues with lucrative tv deals & potentially massive relegation & promotion issues that would lead to legal battles.
So when you do, you have to finish it. Then you can deal with timing issues & schedule problems for the next season before it starts, which means they'll have no legal or unknown financial implications because it's agreed before the season starts.
Unless you have rich clubs & leagues with lucrative tv deals & potentially massive relegation & promotion issues that would lead to legal battles.
So when you do, you have to finish it. Then you can deal with timing issues & schedule problems for the next season before it starts, which means they'll have no legal or unknown financial implications because it's agreed before the season starts.
This is the first... it's getting voided.
You're all thinking about it too logically.
We don't win the league for decades, we come close and our greatest ever player slips and falls and we lose the race.
We go the entire season losing one game, get 97 points, come second.
We finally look to win the league after 30 years. We walk it, 22 points clear, then a global pandemic halts football.
Follow the trend. We're cursed. It's getting voided.
You're all thinking about it too logically.
We don't win the league for decades, we come close and our greatest ever player slips and falls and we lose the race.
We go the entire season losing one game, get 97 points, come second.
We finally look to win the league after 30 years. We walk it, 22 points clear, then a global pandemic halts football.
Follow the trend. We're cursed. It's getting voided.
He's a bad cunt, that Oliver Kay.
But yeah, they're gonna void it.
Best case scenario we can hope for is for them to award us the league out of pity.
But yeah, they're gonna void it.
Best case scenario we can hope for is for them to award us the league out of pity.
He's just quoting some club executive from the article. He didn't even write the article.
Anyway, I've always thought the likelihood was that the season won't get finished, even though it should.
I think on balance in that case we'd probably be declared champions, but obviously the nightmare void scenario is definitely a possibility.
I always thought he was a Liverpool fan, can't recall why
Kay is definitely positive to Liverpool.
Although I didn’t think it would happen, it looks like the season is going to be voided, as
there is momentum building.
on the flip side we don’t have the euros so the league could finish for may / June, if the lock down restrictions are relaxed. This would need to happen in April
Although I didn’t think it would happen, it looks like the season is going to be voided, as
there is momentum building.
on the flip side we don’t have the euros so the league could finish for may / June, if the lock down restrictions are relaxed. This would need to happen in April
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What if they can't play again this year?
It will be voided.
Stop dismissing the gods and the curse
If they can't play again this year that strengthens the case to finish this year's doesn't it?
Because there'll be no imperative to start the next one.
Because there'll be no imperative to start the next one.
Seriously, all season I trundled along providing balance to the world, appeasing the Gods, telling all you dopey cunts we won't win the league. It was fine, we soared ahead, we took an unassailable lead.
In my weakness, I started to believe. I may have kept up some sort of lazy pretence, but I definitely let slip occasionally that I thought we'd win it now.
Then BAM! Global pandemic stops all sport.
Click on, you rose-tinted idiots. It's getting voided.
In my weakness, I started to believe. I may have kept up some sort of lazy pretence, but I definitely let slip occasionally that I thought we'd win it now.
Then BAM! Global pandemic stops all sport.
Click on, you rose-tinted idiots. It's getting voided.
How long does it stay suspended? What about player contracts? What about transfers? They'd scrap it if the wait is too long.
Those are pretty minor issues in the scheme of things.
The point is if football stays suspended well into next season then it makes more sense just to finish the current one, as there wouldn't be time to play a whole new one anyway.
The issue is more complicated if we can restart in say September or October. Then there's a real scheduling problem.
The point is if football stays suspended well into next season then it makes more sense just to finish the current one, as there wouldn't be time to play a whole new one anyway.
The issue is more complicated if we can restart in say September or October. Then there's a real scheduling problem.
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