Pressure builds on CEOs and Chairman to speak on the record

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The Premier League is facing a player REVOLT with regards to PROJECT RESTART.

The talent on the pitch doesn’t like the idea of risking their health. Can you blame them?

This from The Mirror, quoting Dutch agent Rob Jaansen.

“I tell you what is going to be the most interesting question: can clubs force their players to play football under these circumstances?

“The pressure because of financial situations is getting bigger and bigger – and England is a major example.

“Cut-backs in wages are varying between 20 to 30 percent.

“I know one English club where they insist that the players take a cut of 70 percent.

“There is a promise that they will compensate the players at a later date.”

It’s a messy situation and I wholeheartedly agree with the fear of the players. These people depend on their health more than most. They are being asked to risk it all in a ‘never been done before’ experiment. Patients who get the virus can suffer lung scarring after, you’ve only got to look at Boris J to see the impact it’s had on him, and he’s fairly young. This is from the John Hopkins website.

“Recovery from lung damage takes time,”

“There’s the initial injury to the lungs, followed by scarring. Over time, the tissue heals, but it can take three months to a year or more for a person’s lung function to return to pre-COVID-19 levels.”

I’m sure lung damage is lesser in young people. But here’s the rub… do you want to be the one player where it hits really hard? Probably not. Why chance a career over a self-imposed deadline? Will there be compensation available if something terrible happens? Are clubs willing to go on the record and lay out the plan with all eventualities?

What’s the alternative though? Bankrupt the clubs, then the players have no living. It’s a very difficult position for the players and the clubs. The situation has been made worse with 3 staff testing positive for the disease in Cologne. How long have they been back, a week? The Premier League’s plan of isolation hotels, mega testing and secret locations for games seems naive… mainly because all it’ll take is ONE case, and the whole thing collapses in on itself.

The clubs know they are up against it as well, Gary Neville has been calling our CEOs for their lack of bottle.

“The PL are having a CV nightmare. They keep spouting health first but then brief constantly ‘We have to restart’. I’d respect them more if they said, ‘We accept the increase in health risk but it’s one we are willing to take.’ They won’t as they are frightened to death!”

“That’s why we haven’t heard one single prominent CEO/chairman/owner or executive open his mouth to back the restart! Brief, brief, brief ! Scared to death of the liability and blame.”

I personally struggle to see how they’ll bring the game back any time soon. I think you’ll need to see a drastic reduction in cases, which hopefully the summer will bring. If they do go ahead, expect players to strike and say they won’t play. Outside health, a lot of these stars live with older family. There’s just too much on the line for them to risk.

Let me know what YOU think in the comments. x

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Spanishdave

A lot of countries will fudge the figures to suit their agendas.
Spain and Italy need tourism to save their economies ther don’t have much else.
China want to position themselves for more world domination.
That’s why America needs to get back to work regardless.
It’s all political

Graham62

My predictions.

Null and void 2019-20 season. Liverpool to be awarded title(sorry folks).
All games 20/21 behind closed doors until vaccine is discovered.
No European games. No international matches.
EPL /FA /PFA will join hands to sort out the domestic game.
Mesut Ozil will still refuse 12.5% salary reduction.😩

Graham62

Spanishdave

I know.

Marc

Graham

We could be a month away from knowing whether the vaccine under development in Oxford will work – that’s going to make a massive difference to any plans etc.

With news leaking about clubs refusing to play in neutral stadiums I have no idea how they’ll sort the promotion / relegation issues. Other than having a 22 team PL I can see any other option ending with someone taking legal action.

Marc

No European football will hurt a lot of clubs – the Spud’s could really find themselves in trouble. The whole reason of hiring Mourinho was because Levy thought he’d guarantee a top 4 finish.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Ishola 70

You sound like a certain David icke

I also feel this is more than the shit they are telling us.

It’s more than s virus.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Marc
If they don’t compete the big cup
It should be same teams as this season so they are safe.

David Smith

The Oxford vaccine and a number of other treatments they are looking into, was just reading they are looking into an antibody that they believe will neutralise the protein spikes it uses to latch onto cells. And some scientists even believe it could just burn itself out, disappear in a self limiting way. Of course this may well be hugely over optimistic, but we don’t know where this is going, at the moment, we just have to listen to over cautious, extremely risk averse govt scientists who seem terrified of providing any grounds for hope, perhaps they fear people will… Read more »

Marc

David

The guy’s in Oxford are making some really bold claims based on their previous experience and I’m sure producing a million doses before it’s been passed as OK for human use has a pretty big cost.

If they’re wrong it’s going to serious hurt their reputations.

Let’s hope they’re confidence is well founded.

Marc

RSPC You do realise using the term “You sound like a certain David icke ” and then saying “I also feel this is more than the shit they are telling us.” is a bit daft. Of course there are things that will come out over time but that doesn’t mean it’s a massive conspiracy. It was on Sky News website earlier that a doctor / scientist in France has gone back and tested hospital blood samples from December and found that Covid was already present in France at least a month before the first documented case. My guess is that’ll… Read more »

MGooner

@ David The largest vaccine manufacturer in the world is the Serum Institute of India. They already work with Oxford Uni on a number of vaccines and have announced they will start production in May to be ready in September if the vaccine works. But it will have to clear Phase 3 trials on humans. They will follow same procedure as for Ebola. That is give vaccine to people who have been in contact with an infected patient. There is a long way to go still. Worth mentioning they will supply this vaccine at cost. Around 10 pounds. But a… Read more »

Dissenter

My best guess is that 10,000,000 Chinese got the COVID-19 virus and about 200k died.
Never trust the Chinese with those numbers they put up.
The US numbers are a gross undercounting too.

Marc

MGooner

AstraZeneca has also partnered with the guys at Oxford – once anyone has a vaccine it’ll be mass produced by labs all over the world.

David Smith

Interesting stuff mgooner

David Smith

And from Marc..

MGooner

@Dissenter

The Chinese or broadly Asian response was better as they were hit by many other episodes of virus in the past decades. Same for middle East.

In N America and Europe this has been a new thing. So understandably people took more time to understand the implications.

You can bet that next time we have something like this the US will be better prepared.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

We should blood a lot of youth next season…

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Marc
Still don’t trust the lil fuckers
They want world Domination ..
Devalue the dollar
All been planned for something . Don’t know what yet.

In us we should sell who we can and have a team like this

Leno
Bellerin
Saliba
Mari
Tiernay
Wilcox
Party
Smith Rowe
Sakaa
Eddie
Pepe

Pierre

Cheers SpanishDave , not long now and the courses will be open..

Ishola70

RSPCA

“You sound like a certain David ickeI also feel this is more than the shit they are telling us.It’s more than s virus.”

No no conspirasist just a bit tired of all the bullshittery of it now.

Tomorrow’s Guardian headline:

“Anger over plans to ease lockdown that “risk putting workers in danger”

Well I thought workers have been putting themselves at risk for at least a month now but maybe those don’t count.

If people want assurances of complete safety at work and travelling to work then I’m afraid this lockdown will be here for a long time yet.

Ishola70

Piers Morgan tested negative.

Hurrah!

Essential this fella is.

Marc

Ishola

Is that a genuine headline? Because if it is it shows show’s the hypocrisy of the media – they’re the ones who have been calling for a lifting of the lock down for a couple of weeks now.

Just proves that they love it every time something bad happens – the higher the death toll the happier they’ll be.

Ishola70

Yes Marc genuine headline in today’s Guardian.

Of course we know the Guardian will be looking for blood in the not too distant future over this.

And perhaps some blood spilt over this will be justified.

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

Is

I think your right…

Personally I don’t think there will be football played for long time…
then comes the question if we can’t finish we can’t start …. can we.

Until someone has the balls to say this years is over …

Meanwhile people die…

So football can go fuck it self fo4 a bit…

On another note..
Party looks like adone deal with lack off going the other way..

But he may be 28 till we see him play.

alex cutter

“the hypocrisy of the media – they’re the ones who have been calling for a lifting of the lock down for a couple of weeks now.

Just proves that they love it every time something bad happens – the higher the death toll the happier they’ll be.”

Your boyfriend Pete’s part of that “media”. Will he be happier with a higher death toll?

China1

One thing to keep in mind is they keep reporting the total number of infected to date, but most reports aren’t saying how many are active cases.

There might be 150,000 total cases but only 10,000 known active cases left in the country as every day a large number will be recovering and a small percentage will sadly pass away.

Anyway my point is talking about the total number of cases to date to discuss our current situation is a misnomer.