Coronavirus: Football Discussion Thread

[kaz7]

The NBA are trying to get their season finished,wrestling with the same issues ,tests,money,economics,staff,they are not going to wait for a vaccine apparantly,no contact like baseball might come back first

 

[Mike N]

If it comes back this year it’ll be like that Walking Football, which is excellent for older less-fit guys, but not for the best players in the world.

 

[lancs blue]

There will be a seismic change in the transfer system in the next couple of years , so Txiki had better be "on it".

Hopefully we'll be looking to play the long game and hoover up the best young prospects rather than haggling for over-priced established players.

 

[BillCarlisle]

Christ, even Brighton are going against their paymasters.

I reckon what Barber said is spot-on, whatever his motives. The so-called "integrity of the league" starts with all clubs playing each other home & away. If you don't have that then the league is compromised straight away. That's before we even get started on the current safety & moral issues etc etc.
It does appear that the PL are trying to redefine the word "integrity" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Maybe to something like "the act of making sure the dippers win the title & bollocks to everyone else".

 

[Dubai Blue]

Was a good watch yes, i see Keys got his dig in right at the end for the sports minister to look into the Newcastle takeover. Who'd of thought him on BEIN sports was going to do that :)

Has a point though, doesn't he?

 

[Briggs1969]

There is no way they will have 22 teams in the premier league.

Do you really think premier league owners will want tv money distributed between 22 clubs instead of 20? That will mean less income from tv deals per club.
Plus the championship is two teams down, does that mean just promoting 2 from league one instead of 3? You can't just promote teams to the premier league, you have to do it all down the pyramid.

Null and void all leagues and start again next season.

Simon Jordan alluded to it on a vid posted on here, all this talk of what to do with the leagues is just fantasy, it's purely to keep football in the news and keep people interested, keep the momentum going.

He also said utd are losing money hand over fist, over 500m in debt and paying 30m a season to service it, this covid could see them lose over 200m in income and they have a monthly wage bill of 20 odd million AND players wages due to increase next season.

Clubs are in deep shit.

And in the market for every single player going apparently!

 

[lancs blue]

And in the market for every single player going apparently!

It's the United way.

 

[Briggs1969]

PLOPP's back garden, DIVER 1's driveway, DIVER 2's bedroom, POGBAD'S hairdressers, talkSHITE'S car park and SLY sports studio.

Editing for accuracy.

 

[BlueAnorak]

Do they honestly think that the fucktards, and we all know which team they follow, won’t congregate outside/near the ‘neutral ground’ when they’re going to win the PL for the first time. Are the PL etc that FCUKING stupid?!?!?

Yes is the answer to that question.

 

[City Man]

Think you've left the kids glue pot lid off too long. China have some serious questions to answer, as does the initial handling of this pandemic by WHO. Whatever you feel about Trump , his initial reaction to close borders was correct and decisive. An action that he was lambasted for and generally derided as further proof of being a racist. His critics now say he didn't act soon enough and have changed their tune. The US economy has done well under Trump, it's fairly cler that this virus has fucked the WORLD economies not just the US. Our economy has collapsed . Many countries are up shit creek . There's some pretty clear evidence that China covered up the outbreak for some weeks before admitting to it on a world stage. Its likely that the virus came from one of their labs due to poor practices and spred through their wet markets ( markets that they had previously said were shut down). China sealed off Wuhan province form rest of China yet allowed people to travel abroad, thereby spreading it to rest of world. Countries damaging others usually suffer some form of reparations.