The Mirror newspaper revealed that nine clubs in the Premier League formed a kind of pressure to push the League and the Football Association to take an urgent and rapid decision to end the current season of the league before June 30.
The newspaper said that the nine prominent clubs discussed secretly all possible scenarios of the suspended league, since mid-March, due to the pandemic of the Corona virus, and coordinated with other clubs. It reached a final and definitive decision, which it will present at the association's meeting scheduled today.
And the representatives of these clubs are seeking to put an end to the question of waiting, which causes them great financial losses every month, and they are completely unwilling to play during the summer period, given the overlap of the current season with the next. The Mirror said they have a plan to hold the remaining matches, to be completed before June 30th, especially since between nine to 10 matches are left for all clubs.
The newspaper did not reveal the full details of this plan, but indicated - according to its sources - that it may mean playing without an audience, and to give Liverpool the opportunity to achieve the title by ending the season, in addition to identifying European centers, as well as downward clubs.
One of the reasons that cause clubs to end the season in any way is the issue of player contracts that expire on June 30, where you do not want to lose a lot of money because of this matter, along with sponsorship contracts and advertisements related to these contracts and league matches, and you want to reduce losses to the lowest possible level. The newspaper revealed that 80 players from the first level will end their contracts by the end of next June, which constitutes a real problem for most English clubs, especially as the Football Association refused to interfere in this aspect in the interest of clubs, and decided to allow an automatic extension of contracts without deduction in many points. The current pause and foggy, which surrounds the current season of the English Premier League is a major problem for all clubs, because it can not do anything, whether in terms of player contracts, new contracts, or sponsoring company contracts without a decisive decision from the Football Association and the League.
- Clubs want a crucial decision regarding the league, to settle contracts and dealings with sponsoring companies.
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A first-level player in the Premier League clubs, their contracts will expire on June 30.