Football and the Coronavirus

adam cool dude said:
My company has furloughed staff as well and they had a net income of 50 million last year. It is not just football teams. Problem is it is us the tax payer that will be picking up the bill.
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Kinda what im getting at. Everyones furloughing people all over the place billionaire owners or not so asking the players to take a small percentage out isnt an issue imo especially if that means not furloughing the other lower paid members of staff.
 
adam cool dude said:
My company has furloughed staff as well and they had a net income of 50 million last year. It is not just football teams. Problem is it is us the tax payer that will be picking up the bill.
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Companies will not accept a loss. The furlough system is not in place to stop companies going bust as said above, it is designed to stop companies laying staff off. The idea being once this is over they can quickly get back up to capacity.
 
200sols said:
Companies will not accept a loss. The furlough system is not in place to stop companies going bust as said above, it is designed to stop companies laying staff off. The idea being once this is over they can quickly get back up to capacity.
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These are all people on decent contracts. They would have to pay a lot of money to simply lay off staff. The point is the company can afford to pay them quite easily.
 
They havent been on holiday though in fairness. They will all have being doing routines at home s whilst they wont be match sharp...theyll still be in good nick. I imagine whatever happens they'll get a few weeks to prepare.
 
Yea, it's fairly standard practice for clubs to continue paying sacked managers rather than one off pay-offs these days.

The PL issued a statement following their meeting today but nothing really new in there. They just discussed modelling for potential ways to finish the season, with that remaining the main objective. There's been some leaks from the EFL that are more interesting though with details of a letter that Rick Parry sent all EFL clubs - they're targetting returning to training in mid May, advising clubs to be prepared to resume at short notice and confirmation that they're looking to stream all remaining games. The Telegraph are also reporting that the EFL are also looking into the possibility of staging all remaining EFL games (all 3 Leagues) at just 10-15 Championship venues with the potential for multiple games being played on the same pitch each day.
 
Surely they've got to give them some kind of preseason? If they're going to go in cold after 1/2 months out there is going to be a lot of injuries.
 
There will be some sort of pre-season before the games are played. If the mid May target for returning to training is achievable then that will give sides at least 3 weeks training, with the current suggestions being that there will be no games until after the first week of June. I think when the EFL mention the possibility of resuming at short notice, they're referring to the time between the point they know they can start playing games and when the first game is - for example, they may only get the green light to start playing a week before the 1st game kicks-off, however teams will have already been in training for a number of weeks prior to that.
 
Don't understand why they can't just test all the players/staff, make sure they are all negative, then play all the games behind closed doors and finish the season.
 
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