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Albion in the Community charity have, yes.

Exactly. Any team who furloughs should have to pay the money back before the first transfer cheque/signing on fee is paid out.

The key is certainty as soon as possible as to what league we are in next season. The nightmare financially would be Premier League expense levels ticking on until late in the year, and then being relegated, so no PL level income for the 20/21 season which could help with the maasive 19/20...

It isn't projected to be the same as Burnley https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/1246557744708157440?s=19

And yet Alireza Jahanbakhsh has sent money back to rural Iran to help fund the fight against the virus. The human thing to do is indeed to help.

- It seems to that clubs should be allowed to furlough staff - but the PL should commit to paying all the furlough money back to the country out of the first TV income payment. - Furloughing players is a non-starter as an idea. - The PL needs to do a deal with the TV companies so that any...

Not correct. If a club breaks a contract, the players can walk away. The club does not retain the registration. I suspect PL players have enough of a rainy day fund to sit it out until they get a multi-million signing on fee elsewhere. And... With respect to the government furlough scheme...

That is exactly what he is doing. He can't commit to always doing it ( I suspect without certainty of which league we will be in next season ).

Good solution. The PL also need to sort out a deal with Sky so money doesn't have to be paid back ( or at least paid back over time ). Certainty needs to be established asap with regard to next season ( not start date, obviously ). This means clubs knowing which league they will be in by the...

The article says Burnley will go bust in 4 months if they have to pay back TV money ( and, I assume, there is a delay to the start of next season ).

Maybe. I hadn't even considered that.

It seems people expect Tony to take the whole financial hit, which given what we owe him, doesn't sit well with me. If we had been making a profit ( like Liverpool ) then perhaps that would be different.

The PL needs to do a deal to give TV companies extra games next season as compensation, instead of paying back money, otherwise the whole house of cards falls.

Footballers could be furloughed - if they agree. No one can be forced into furlough anyway, though most would lose their jobs if they didn't agree. Insisting a footballer is furloughed ( if the scheme even allows the employer to insist? ) would result in a break of contract and the player...

The why is.... ... any contracted player who is furloughed can walk away from their contract. So assets on the balance sheet disappear overnight. Forget amortization of transfer fees, it is all gone in 1 hit. And say goodbye to any transfer income for that player. For example, is it worth...

You can't furlough the players, because they are assets on the balance sheet, and if you break their contracts and let them walk away, then your accounts are screwed. Forget amortization, they are gone in 1 hit. Of course you don't pay them appearance money or goal bonuses etc. but you can't...

The link is https://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/18357880.albion-likely-use-furlough-scheme/

Well that would basically be the players subsidising the owner's loss. Better they donate to where it is needed more ? Clearly we all owe a lot to Tony, though. Tricky one.

The Albion have been hinting that this is being seriously considered as well. Some hard decisions will have to be made soon, unless certainty over next season can be established sooner rather than later.

Liverpool's next multi-million buy is going to be a bit awkward isn't it ? Perhaps clubs should be banned from signing players until they pay back furlough money to the country ?