This isn't going to start flattening out until the end of May at the earliest. Then it's going to need 4 weeks for the players to get back to full fitness. So the end of June is absolutely the most optimistic opportunity to restart the season. I'd say there's a 75-80% chance the season is over.
Discovered something earlier. The company that owns AS Roma is American and one of the main people in that company is called Thomas DiBenedetto. He's a partner in FSG, Liverpool's owner, and was chairman at Roma for a while after the takeover in 2011. The current chairman at Roma is Italian-American James Pallotta. He has no overt connection to FSG but he is a Bostonian and is friendly with the FSG people. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/fsg-viewing-liverpools-champions-league-14538417
The other two owners are Michael Ruane, another Bostonian who is big in real estate and Richard D'Amore, from - you guessed it - Boston.
Liverpool beat Roma in a high-scoring CL Semi Final in 2017/18. They also got Salah from there. Interesting.
This isn't going to start flattening out until the end of May at the earliest. Then it's going to need 4 weeks for the players to get back to full fitness. So the end of June is absolutely the most optimistic opportunity to restart the season. I'd say there's a 75-80% chance the season is over.
I'm actually going to defend the dippers on this point and blame uefa/TV. The dips were leggy as fuck and had been for a couple of weeks as klopps kick and rush long ball tactics were finally starting to take their toll on his miraculously fit squad. I think they would have gladly accepted postponement of this fixture.
They were presumably awaiting guidance from the Government at that point. I think it’s a bit shitty to put this on Liverpool. Not the time for petty point-scoring.but once it wasn't postponed, both them and Atletico had an option to make it at least a game without fans, but they both wanted fans. Guess Liverpool wanted it much more, you know the famous european nights. They deliberately caused a huge risk to public health for a possible gain of winning the football match.
They were presumably awaiting guidance from the Government at that point. I think it’s a bit shitty to put this on Liverpool. Not the time for petty point-scoring.
Yeh can't see it myselfThis isn't going to start flattening out until the end of May at the earliest. Then it's going to need 4 weeks for the players to get back to full fitness. So the end of June is absolutely the most optimistic opportunity to restart the season. I'd say there's a 75-80% chance the season is over.
De Laurentiis also questioned the fee Liverpool paid for Alisson, claiming he was worth far more and there was no way he would have sold him for the amount paid.Both Salah and Allison. Napoli's president brought that question up when they sold Allison to Liverpool as he wanted to buy Allison too. He then said it might be that both clubs have same owners.
There’s a really good article in, I think, the Athletic, on this relationship with the implication that the Americans were working against Roma’s interests and in Liverpool’s. They cited both Salah and Allison being sold at well below their market values the Liverpool much to, I think, Roma’s chairman’s annoyance.Discovered something earlier. The company that owns AS Roma is American and one of the main people in that company is called Thomas DiBenedetto. He's a partner in FSG, Liverpool's owner, and was chairman at Roma for a while after the takeover in 2011. The current chairman at Roma is Italian-American James Pallotta. He has no overt connection to FSG but he is a Bostonian and is friendly with the FSG people. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/fsg-viewing-liverpools-champions-league-14538417
The other two owners are Michael Ruane, another Bostonian who is big in real estate and Richard D'Amore, from - you guessed it - Boston.
Liverpool beat Roma in a high-scoring CL Semi Final in 2017/18. They also got Salah from there. Interesting.
The Roma chairman is a mate of John Henry's. He supposedly "complained" about the Salah price when they had lunch together.There’s a really good article in, I think, the Athletic, on this relationship with the implication that the Americans were working against Roma’s interests and in Liverpool’s. They cited both Salah and Allison being sold at well below their market values the Liverpool much to, I think, Roma’s chairman’s annoyance.
That's why they've locked it.They've locked their "Premier League suspended until 30th April" thread on RAWK.
It was getting a bit fraught in there, and credit where it's due, the consensus, with notable exceptions, was this thing is bigger than football.
Blimey! Sanity Breaks Out in Merseyside! As incongruous a headline as Tevez in Morecambe.
De Laurentiis also questioned the fee Liverpool paid for Alisson, claiming he was worth far more and there was no way he would have sold him for the amount paid.