Juventus and Milan played the day before yesterday, Sevilla - Betis in Spain, but also Napoli - Inter in the Coppa Italia. The program had two consecutive derbies in Greece with PAOK - Olympiakos and AEK - Panathinaikos and PAOK in OAKA. The leagues are full in the big matches. And the unusual. In icy fields, in empty shops, the… bouzoukers of the ball weigh in! Affliction!
Affliction! Why did they decide to play ball in the semi-finals? To see empty chairs and zero pulse on the podium? Does our heart catch on? Of course not. The OK for returning to competitive action was given neither for reasons of regularity, nor to impose the life of the pandemic. For one reason only, the teams returned to the matches. For the baguette. For the monkeys. We are talking about the gaffers!
The match obligations "froze" for months, with the 8th football matches taking place without the presence of fans. Which means -apart from the lost… pulse- a huge hassle. Losses of millions of euros for leagues and teams. And the scenario of an early end to the year brought even closer the risk of losing hundreds of millions of euros.
In Italy, the Serie A teams in 2018 agreed and signed a contract for television rights for three years, which concerned annual revenues of almost 1 billion euros (973.000.000). The suspension of the action for about another month would have resulted in a hole of more than 200 million euros in total, which varies from club to club depending on its commerciality.
In Spain, before the return to action was announced, even in the way it is done (matches every day for two months), a scenario was released for a permanent suspension of La Liga. But any such thought went for a walk because the financial damage would be unprecedented. The main reason for the pressure that led to the return to the matches in a hurry, was purely financial. If the championship had been stopped, the damage would have reached (hold your breath) 1 billion euros !!! While the year, which is also the current project, will end with closed-door races, the damage will reach 350 million euros. In fact, if it is decided in a few weeks to have people on the stands, the loss will be of the order of 150 million!
As for the health of athletes, players? The 11 games that will have to be completed in record time, with matches every 72 hours, was the occasion for the first complaints of the players through the Spanish Footballers' Union. They will collapse from fatigue, the players say. Injuries will not precede such a race. But all of this was erased almost immediately when they saw their accounts run out of money from agreed or forced reductions.
As for the Premier League? Where each round of tests brings out a new case? He is trembling at the possibility of the final suspension of the championship, as the teams risk losing 130 million euros for a month with empty stadiums and at least three times the total if the season does not continue. It is worth mentioning that the 20 English clubs will have to pay 177 million pounds to their fans as compensation for the games they will not be able to see due to the pandemic, as a share of the season tickets they bought at the start of the season. This amount alone is not considered negligible, since 1/4 of the projected ticketing revenues of the teams of the first category and certainly creates another very big "hole"! That's why we start there in a few days…
Do you understand now why they are playing ball despite the tens of thousands of dead and the empty stands? Did you understand
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