Premier League club asking for relegation exemption

Premier League club asking for relegation exemption

The majority of clubs in the lower half of the Premier League want to relegate to the 2019-2020 season.

At least six clubs, including Brighton, West Ham, Watford, Bournemouth, Aston Villa and Norwich, disagree over the proposal to return to play by playing on a neutral pitch closed to the audience. According to them, such matches are completely different from the previous period and make the tournament unfair. They want the 2019-2020 season to be relegated.

Meanwhile, according to the Organizing Committee, the relocation will make the remaining period become less attractive. This can seriously affect the value of television contracts. Even being relegated will cause the club to suffer bigger financial losses than having to be relegated.

First-class president Rick Parry also opposed the idea of ​​relegation. He threatened to sue if there is no team to the Premier League next season. Premier League teams are still discussing ways to play again during the season. To be approved, the plan needs the support of at least 14 out of 20 teams.

In addition to playing on the neutral ground closed to the audience, the tournament also concerns the risk of players refusing to play for safety reasons. Some players may also refuse to play at the end of their contracts in June. The issues discussed include giving each team five alternatives to each match, leaving VAR.

On 11/5, the United Kingdom recorded 3,877 new cases of Covid-19. This made many players expressed doubts about the ability to play again, including Sergio Aguero and Antonio Rudiger.

The Premier League star is angry that the tournament is about to return

Defender Danny Rose expressed his views on plans to organize the rest of the Premier League in the 2019/20 season in early June.

Richard Masters, managing director of the Premier League, said the organizers are working hard to finish the season in the safest way possible, and hope the Premier League can resume from June 12. next.

The British government is very interested in this plan and sees football as a measure to promote national solidarity after the period of social separation.

Among the top 5 leagues in Europe, only the Bundesliga has set a return date on May 16. The top German clubs will play the game even though before that, information about players in the country positive for corona virus still appears.

The organizer of Premier League is asking the government to consider the proposal to hold the remaining matches of the season in neutral ground. Many teams do not agree with this plan. They say that not playing at home makes them lose a lot of advantages in important matches.

Many Premier League clubs are at a loss due to Covid-19

Many Premier League clubs are at a loss due to Covid-19

12 Premier League clubs have been plagued by a patch of bears and their pre-Covid-19 pandemic, with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.

According to the Athletic website, in the 2017-2018 season, 12 clubs lost money. Everton heaviest losses, about 133 million. Chelsea ranked second with 126 million USD. Arsenal, known as a frugal spending club, also lost $ 29 million.

Of the eight profitable clubs, Tottenham topped the list with a profit of $ 108.5 million. Followed by Liverpool with 52 million USD, and Man Utd with 35 million USD.

Also according to Athletic, the Premier League’s financial situation will be even worse when it falls in the Covid-19 pandemic. The chief executive of this tournament, Richard Masters recently admitted that clubs could lose more than a billion dollars. In particular, the heaviest television rights, which are the factors that make up the Premier League. Revenue from ticket sales, trade and sponsorship also plummeted, even when the teams returned.

Forecast shows that Man Utd will see the heaviest loss at 144.5 million USD. Followed by Man City (135.6 million USD) and Liverpool (127.3 million USD). Burnley president Mike Garlick even thinks his team will go bankrupt in August if the Premier League does not return soon.

While the clubs have difficulties, the team of players has not yet reduced their salaries. A recent meeting between the Premier League organizers and the Player Association (PFA) did not come to an agreement on a 30% pay cut.

Man Utd suffered the most because of Covid-19

Man Utd lost $ 142.6 million because of the pandemic, the most in the Premier League teams, according to Sport Mail.

Man Utd’s losses ranked first in ticket sales and commerce, respectively, 21.6 million USD and 62.3 million USD. The revenue of television rights of the Old Trafford club also dropped $ 58.9 million, just after four top 4 teams (Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea and Leicester).

The rate of damage of Man Utd to revenue last season reached 18.5%. They could incur gross and net losses of 81.5 million and 119.6 million respectively. But, the Glazer team has 377.3 million USD in cash.

After Man Utd, the three teams with heavy losses were Man City (134 million), Liverpool (125.7 million) and Chelsea (111.5 million), respectively. The least losing team was Norwich, with 23.9 million.

Most teams in the Premier League suffered the most damage on television rights, except for Man Utd.

Premier League can isolated 20 teams to play the remain rounds

Premier League can isolated 20 teams to play the remain rounds

The Premier League organization is discussing a plan to gather teams in a safe location to play the remaining nine rounds of the 2019-2020 season.

The plan is called “World Cup-style”, and it is likely that the area focusing on competition is central England and London. The remaining 92 matches will take place in June and July, in non-spectator fields.

All matches will be broadcast live like the World Cup

This option is getting more and more support, according to Independent. It helps solve three problems, including regular medical checks against Covid-19, reducing the risk of infection from outside agents, and completing the entire season.

The British government also leaned on this option because it would bring entertaining moments to the people during the home isolation by Covid-19.

To complete this plan, all members of the teams, TV stations and journalists will be isolated and under strict medical examination, before entering the venue. The last nine rounds of the Premier League will take place continuously, over a period of six to eight weeks, with a density of no more than five matches a day.

Logistics is the biggest challenge in this plan. In addition to the entire tournament service system that must live separately, the problems that arise when the tournament takes place also do not have satisfactory answers.

 Political factors are part of the reason this World Cup-style show is easy to come true, according to Independent. If Covid-19 was controlled, England needed a push to make life return to normal. In the land of fog, nothing is more meaningful now than the return of the number one football tournament.

On the player side, their mood was stable. Almost assured complete the entire season, and play the ball in the field without the audience. They also predetermined that they may have to play in training grounds, instead of stadiums, for ease of management.

The idea of ​​”World Cup style” scheduling was started in early March when the Premier League announced the postponement of the tournament for the first time. However, it is especially noticeable these days when this tournament needs absolute safety, amid the high number of nCoV infections in the UK.

Postponed UAE match against Malaysia in World Cup qualifier 2022 by Covid-19

Postponed UAE match against Malaysia in World Cup qualifier 2022 by Covid-19

The match between the host of UAE welcoming Malaysia in Dubai on March 26 under Group G of the second qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup will certainly be postponed due to the outbreak of Covid-19, according to the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM).

The information has been confirmed by Malaysia team manager Yusoff Mahadi in Metro Daily. The official said that Malaysia will train at Bukit Jalil to be ready to face Vietnam in the next round of Group G qualifying for the second round of the 2022 World Cup on March 31.

“Games that are not severely affected by Covid-19 still have obstacles, but only countries with restricted travel can be postponed. Without national travel restrictions like Vietnam and Malaysia, it looks like the match between the two teams will continue as usual. Unless the Covid-19 epidemic becomes more serious in our country, the government will probably make decisions”, Datuk Yusoff told Metro Daily. The official added that, so far, FAM has remained Haven’t received any information from the government about travel restrictions.

According to Datuk Yusoff, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) will meet on March 2 to give notice of the postponement of the Malaysia-UAE match and some other matches from teams from West Asia in the second round of World Cup 2022 and the Asian Cup 2023 final.

Earlier, Bahrain – a country in West Asia, sent an apology to FAM for canceling a friendly match at home to Malaysia on March 21 for fear of disease. In addition to the above matches, the outbreak of Covid-19 has affected many Asian teams in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers such as Japan, Korea, China … In particular, AFC’s March 2 day meeting in Malaysia will Discuss the schedule before making a decision to postpone some matches to prevent the risk of Covid-19 infection.

Currently, in the second qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup Malaysia (9 points) is second in Group G after Vietnam (11 points) but ahead of Thailand (8 points), UAE (6 points, playing less than 1 match), Indonesia (0 points).