Very speculative but here's the latest rumour.
Played behind closed doors, beginning in July over a 4-6 week period.
A lot of clubs are going to be very stretched financially if that's the case.
Exactly like I said before - blindly chasing completing this season at the potential expense of next, thus creating an even bigger problem and an even bigger threat to the game. Well done, guys. Really well done. I hope this isn’t true, but I’ve thought all along that it would be. Nobody plans long term anymore.
So let’s say they start again in July, finish late August, few weeks off before starting the new season around mid-September, and then the hugely-expected second wave of this thing smashes in right around that same time - bang. Goodnight.
As I said before, they should be accepting that this season is done for and starting the next season in July, which also eliminates the sticky situation regarding player contracts which expire on June 30. They should then be getting games played thick and fast (two per week, Saturday / Tuesday) before the second wave hits us two or three months on, and then even if we have another 4/5 month layoff the clubs can come back around February / March and smash through the rest of the fixtures at the same rate, thus completing the season by June. At that point there should be a vaccine either out there or right on the cusp of being so. Cup competitions would likely need to go to allow the league fixtures to be completed with no distractions, but at least every club would get their 40+ games and subsequent gate receipts, allowing them a shot at survival. If by some miracle a second wave doesn’t arrive in the autumn - it’s nearly guaranteed to, but let’s say it doesn’t - then the remaining fixtures following the frantic start can be spaced out a little more, going back down to Saturday only, and a mid-season break can come in before or after the festive period. This way there is a viable plan for if there is a second wave, and a viable plan for if by some luck there isn’t. Either way, next season is completed and clubs can bank on some sort of revenue.
Or we could just cause more problems for ourselves in a manner such as the one outlined in that article, and become so obsessed with the final nine or ten games that we destroy the whole of next season, and with it risk the existence of half of the footballing pyramid. Either way.