Coronovirus
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Good to hear from you YONMON and VALAIRIAN.
Really missing football and all our friends at Stanley.
Look after yourselves everyone.
KEEP THE FAITH.
the way football is financed then lower down the leagues you go then more these clubs actually need fans to turn up at the gate. the thing that may happen is that the new contracts offered by teams in div.1 and 2 will be lower but those at the top will still have the i,m all right jack approach to football finance.
Even Premiership clubs could go to the wall with this the way they have all scrambled for the prize of being in their among the "elite," all their income going on players wages can't be sustainable, when crowds are allowed back people will have lost jobs income or worst still a family member, they might just not rush back like football thinks they will.
Or you’ll have the opposite and people will flock to pump money back into clubs.
Hope you’ve all bought the 50/50 tickets for this saturdays game from the supporters trust?!?!
Nicola Palios of Tranmere, Andy Holt, among others saying this morning that the EFL needs to get it's act together and come up with a viable plan moving forward, they have mucked about now for nearly 4 weeks April,s pay cheques coming up, Andy Holt has said he has heard a few clubs already missed wages, Palios warns of a catastrophe ahead if something isn't collectively decided soon, he say,s pay cuts have to be one way forward up to 50% because some clubs are that close to financial ruin. Plus he adds that owners who usually bail out clubs will be reluctant to do so at present as their own business,s are under immense pressure and they might in some cases just throw in the towel.
Personally, I think that's probably the greatest threat - a lot of clubs from League 1 downwards are reliant on owners who have done well for themselves out of quite small businesses and taken on their local clubs for a variety of philanthropic reasons, with no intention of making any money out of it, indeed expecting to have pour money into the bottomless pit. In times like this, for folks in this position, it's not a choice between continuing support for the club and the business - if the business goes, the club goes anyway.
Fingers crossed ……..
I wouldn't say either Mr., Pilley or our very own Mr.Holt are numpties Cashy they are astute buisness men planning financial affairs going forward including their football interests I suggest the numpties are the owners who jumped on the pay unaffordable player wages bandwagon and people with their heads buried in the sand, this is an unknown for us all but if you think a switch will magically bring things back to normal overnight I,m afraid for once unfortunately you could be wrong.
its pretty obvious to me with common sense the medical people many say different things its guesswork,I think I agree with Cashy on this one - everybody’s guessing, from the Government downwards (or should that be upwards?)
I think I agree with Cashy on this one - everybody’s guessing, from the Government downwards (or should that be upwards?
I'm hoping Andy Holt isn't guessing with his business projections, but the EFL need to work on a par for once with owners or the game that was already in trouble will head down a leaderless alley, Andy already predicted with Stanley's loss of crowd income from this season's lost home games will have a probable 25% loss on the next playing budget whenever that maybe. I am not a doom monger quite the opposite a positive so and so this thread I started is hopefully keeping readers/fans without access to other social media abreast of what is happening however depressing it might come across for that I can only apologise for trying to make sense of a scenario non of us would have imagined just 4 weeks ago.
The EFL has suggested a 25% paycut on players wages in leagues 1 and 2 but already a lot of club chairman saying it isn't enough players not taking kindly to it one league 1 chairman even suggesting he might tear up all players contracts and risk courtroom trails if it means saving the club. Scottish football yesterday ending their season's below the premiership positions standing, right or wrong they have had the balls to make a decision. These are EFL,s September,s published average wages for players:- league 1 £4753.00 a week, league 2 £2191.00 a week.
I wonder when will we be free of this coronavirus. I can't wait to be outside again doing what I want to do.
Premiership meeting today to discuss a deadline of June 30th as to call it a day on this season mainly due to contractual agreements coming to an end etc,etc being a legal minefield. Given current government guidelines it seems at this present time difficult to see this season,s completion. Difficult decisions about promotion and relegation among other things will be discussed.