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  • Thanks.

  • Jaws, of course, with all sports future athlete here right now.

  • The same applies to both the Champions League and the Europa League, which we'll discuss in just a moment.

  • Jamie, I think you want to say something about Mason Mount, didn't you?

  • Oh, yeah.

  • No.

  • Just made a mistake.

  • Is a great kid.

  • Really nice boy, well educated, these lovely family behind him.

  • I just made a mistake.

  • I'm making plenty of mistakes out when I was his age.

  • I'm sure, you know, with Frank and everybody at the club stick, stick, stick buying.

  • But it's just well, we've all done stupid things in our time is a brilliant young man.

  • I thought I could say as part, but it's of course it's a mistake, and we must take these things seriously.

  • We keep saying on this show, it's all about context.

  • We understand that apartment.

  • You found it quite refreshing just once going play football with his money.

  • Yeah, of course.

  • That's what we all want to do.

  • We want to get back to watching football, not have to sit here talking about something that it's actually so serious.

  • But I mean, that's life.

  • That's life.

  • That we have to just get on with it.

  • You got a young players elite player?

  • Yeah.

  • As you said that, he actually wants to go on playing e.

  • Yeah.

  • I mean, it's just made a mistake.

  • If this wasn't during the Corona virus could be found upon the fact he's playing football with his mates, especially another Premier League player as well.

  • Yeah, really loves the game, and that's the problem.

  • But it was just a fun time for him to do it.

  • And here we all feel knowing him.

  • I met him a few times.

  • It'll feel so bad about what he's done.

  • He did.

  • It's not come from a bad play.

  • He's made a big mistake right now.

  • But there were people all around the world that should be self I since isolating that that No.

  • So let's just forget about it now.

  • He's made a mistake and everybody just move on.

  • Okay, wait, can you give us out of here once again?

  • Champions League and Europa League?

  • What are the proposals?

  • Although they are shrouded in caveats, ifs, buts and maybes Very big, obviously.

  • The Europa League final, due to take place in Gdansk in Poland on the Germans, The final buck in Istanbul, Uh, they've bean deferred is my understanding no decision has yet when they will be played, because you can't make a decision on when they're gonna play back to the same scenario.

  • The message sort of emanating out of you a fur circles is that they really do want to play these finals in some shape or form.

  • There's been some speculation that they might reduce the way the final part of the tournaments played with.

  • It's down to one legs to get this to some kind of weekend in Gdansk or weekend in Istanbul.

  • I'm not certain of that.

  • I actually don't know how they could map that out.

  • And to be fair, this is not coming directly from people at your way.

  • For I've spoken to this is just speculation is doing the rounds has been some talk of the 24th of June and the 27th of June for two files.

  • I don't know how you can possibly plan for that at this moment when we have no idea where we're going to be with the Corona virus at that point.

  • And let's be frank, we've been talking about it peeking later in the summer.

  • So I think we got a long way to go before we know what's gonna happen with the Europa round with the champion, he founds.

  • Although you wait for do want to play them, do you both feel the company?

  • The cup competitions are the same is the league that for the integrity off that competition, it must be seen through to the end before you start again.

  • We're talking about a single matches, except that would make sense in a tournament basis.

  • But the league is slightly different because there's so much more in terms of relegation and within a league Champions League places.

  • I think that's probably an easier one to do.

  • But when we're talking right now about the board is being closed out, how can we then talk about in June having you know the plan, the Champions League and it just doesn't make any sense.

  • Think it's back to what we keep saying The same isn't what I'm asking is it is important that cup competitions are concluded in what way we might have to look at this and again putting into context again, but commercially, financially, the revenue that's brought in via the champ by the Champions League, the prize money that goes out from the Champions League.

  • It's huge amounts money.

  • I think the winning team started creating.

  • It was about 82 million quid.

  • You know there's a so the revenue that comes in from the masses, massive sponsors who sponsored the whole tournament, they will be looking this.

  • I've heard some else court.

  • This is their Super Bowl.

  • So they will be doing all they can to try and finish both the Europa League on the Champions League final book.

  • It's not the sooner they take more of a more breathing space, and so primitive could actually say, Well, listen, there's no reason why we can't maybe do it October October or is that because of the team?

  • That's what it there may be qualified for the next.

  • I don't know.

  • I'm with you, Jimmy.

  • I think this is part of I think they've been wise today that they've set these small working groups.

  • But I think they just gotta take the time and find a way through this.

  • The answers aren't necessarily all there at this moment, other than they may have a A general commitment.

  • We want to find a time that we will play those finals.

  • The knock on effect then is into next season on what that puts on the rest of competition, and there are huge revenue streams that come from this.

  • That's not that's not hide away from that.

  • So it's not a straightforward plan that you can say we're gonna do this, We're gonna do that.

  • They've got to try and map their way through it.

  • And, you know, I have not been in that situation, but there's very experienced people you were for, like, Giorgio Marketing, who's always around the Champions League draw.

  • He's being around the Champions League, and you really don't have any evidence of anything like this that well, no, But he will have had, you know, there there are certain people who have been The gift was a bit like Mike Foster, who was at the premiere league for many, many years.

  • Miller that will try and make it work once we know that football's operational.

  • So it's not about necessary saying for May what debt we're gonna go with now it's about, are we saying we want to do it if we're saying we want to do it.

  • What would be the formula to get us to that point when we're activating football?

  • So you're not putting an absolute pressure point on yourself?

  • We've got to do it by this point cause we can't control our variable moment.

Thanks.

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