Bulletproof
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They will do what Sky et al tells them to do.Maybe have one off playoff games to decide who gets the European spots. The big clubs will be looked after but the diddy clubs may take a pumping.
What I expect from the meeting next week-
They will announce EURO 2020 is postponed by a year
They will announce that a decision on the Champions league and Europa will be made in 2-3 weeks . They will propose in the event they are cancelled any prize money and coefficient points earned up to the end of the last round are to be awarded and future prize money to be split equally between remaining teams.
They will request each FA reports back in 2 weeks with their plans for 1 - extending leagues, 2- voiding leagues. If extending how they plan to schedule and if voiding how they propose to award European places and prize money )along with potential league changes to allow promotion etc)
They will propose a preliminary season end date where if competitions are incomplete they are considered void - end of June probably.
In the following meeting it will be clearer if extending is even an option, if voiding is the only option and if next season can start and when - if extending is possible they will go with that option and try to end the season by the end date agreed.
If voiding is the only option they will give clubs another 2-3 weeks to come back with a finalised plan based on a next season expected start date
This is not going to be done in one meeting or even 2/3
Overlapping seasons are a legal minefield.
If they void the leagues, who qualifies for Europe next season?
A real can of worms, so I imagine they will try to find a way of completing this one.
There’s certainly no easy way to deal with it, I’m pretty certain whatever each league decides, it will end up at CAS as it will not suit some clubs.The other options even more so.
Too many folk thinking the only 2 options are declare current positions final or null and void.
The 3rd and most likely option is to finish the season whenever safe to do so, probably july/august.
Yes it will still cause problems but i think the authority’s will see less problems with this than declaring current positions final or null and void.
Great post matePeter Grant doesnt look to pleased