Complete restructure of the football league

[NYboro]

The most sense I've seen about it - it's clear that professional football will not survive without radical change.

Mark Palios is the chairman of Tranmere Rovers and a former chief executive of the Football Association who played in the Football League for 12 seasons

 

[rob_fmttm]

Very well argued - I think on the final point a Regulator is an absolute must. The EFL is effectively a trade body, it isn't stand along it is the clubs. A strength but also a weakness in that it cannot make any decree because it is divided, between rich and poor, or now poorer and poorer still, perhaps.

 

[Caesium137]

"I believe there is a very strong argument that the exceptional circumstances of a pandemic and prohibition on all football activities mean player contracts have been frustrated in law. If this is correct, they are void and clubs do not have to honour them. I have not, however, seen any evidence of the parties being forced to confront this scenario"

That would put the cat amongst the pigeons!

Some very valid points in there.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

That's the second today, a chairman expressing himself well and making it clear that professional football is in for a struggle. The thread on Boreham Wood was another good one if you haven't read it.