Periscope research: Global crisis football, how will Kosovo clubs cope

Locked stadiums, fans with an eye to isolated survival and football players with more serious worries than sports, just to emphasize the depth of the crisis.

Coronervirus' pandemic has destabilised the world's most popular sport with its roots, causing damage, whose magnitude will be understood in time.

The first signs are just being observed.

Renowned European clubs are facing crises, which will only deepen if there is no improvement in the health crisis.

Recently, the Swiss club Zion interrupted contracts with nine players after they refused to accept pay cuts during this period.

And if clubs like Zion come from highly developed countries have such problems, where do Kosovo teams remain?

Periscope has done research to understand the status of Kosovo clubs and their concerns about the future.

Presidents, trainers, but even players are very optimistic about improving the situation in the near future.

“Yes, of course, obligations will be made. The flagkeeper has always been fine with wages and he'll be at our club. Indugural training Sãons have banned,” has said the director general of the capital club, Ademi, when asked by our editorials whether the club will continue to pay the footballers, despite they will not be active at all.

Optimism in improving the situation and willingness to carry out his team's obligations in order has also shown Balkan Chairman Arsim Kabashi, who has expressed himself to the Republic:

We'll definitely pay for them. I hope that this situation will pass as soon as possible and return to normal and sporting situations. ”

Periscop then contacted several sources within the Superleague's leading club to prove the accuracy of the information and has learned that the commitments were done fairly, not even further than yesterday's pay was due.

We will do what is best, without harming anyone. We have completed our January and February salaries, for this month we still have time,” Freedom President Qemail Krasniqi said when the same question was posed.

The editorials have insisted on understanding what the solution will be if the situation does not improve and football continues to be suspended, and has received this response from Krasniqi:

If this situation continues, we will act as others do but also in harmony with the players.

But I have conviction that players will not be harmed. ”

Finally, a slight sign of a hypothetical reality that it will not always be gardening and not always the heads of clubs will have the same mood for carrying out their commitments, unless there are no sports activities.

Of course, this is very understandable, since football is essentially a little different from other businesses when it comes to finances, especially clubs like Freedom that compete in lower levels than the Superlea.

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“Klub will surely carry out financial obligations regardless of suspension of activities). After we have completed the drill, Mayor (Mehane Kodra Bekteshi) has completed last month's commitments,” said Gani Sejdiu, Drenica coach.

She has made a human gesture by distributing flour and food items for all club employees, and this shows the great commitment of headship. ”

The theory that wages are mandatory and should be carried out over time, regardless of the circumstances agrees with Llap coach Tahir Batatina, who has explained the financial situation of the Club for Periscope, saying:

No matter what our situation, we'll soon do our wage obligations as football players have families and live by football.

“In co-operation with the chairman, who cannot come to Kosovo because of the coronary, we will find the solution and very soon the leadership will decide to distribute salaries. ”

Batatina also had a message for the Kosovo Football Federation to share past edition tools for clubs, so that the crisis can be made easier to overcome.

“Federata must take the situation seriously and distribute the tools that belong to us from the past edition and help donors, because this situation has also hurt donors the most since the club does not benefit but only provide tools, and this should be considered by local municipalities and the Government of Kosovo. ”

After these comments, Periscope has tried to take the NFF's position on this issue, but received no response.

Concerns about the created situation and the financial crisis have also voiced Trepca's 89th president, Abednego Zeka, who has been very sincere in his response to our editorials.

No, we don't owe our players, except for the last 20-30% salary,” said Zeka initially.

We've made maximum efforts today to provide an advance because of the situation that is currently with us, but hopefully the wild will not last any longer.

We'll probably have problems in the future because all donors who help our club have problems with their businesses.

We pray to God that we can get through this virus as quickly as possible and return to normal conditions and pray to God for our population and for the whole world to save everyone as easily and as quickly as possible. ”

An extremely interesting solution to the matter of club finance at this time offered Periscop's opinionist Andy Lokinaj, who has suggested that wages be distributed part-by-side so that clubs can be protected, but not even the football players will remain.

“The heads of clubs and the players must find a common language in this toll if they face financial problems and that is very understandable,” has been expressed to the paper.

It's not easy when it's known that there's a pretty big salary in the Superleague, but the pledge in the First League as well, I personally think the best solution would have been to make payments for this mess. ”

Even football analyst and connoisseur, Edsim Prepoli, agrees that the situation is not favourable either for leadership or for football players.

Periscope, of course, contacted him to expand his position on the created situation.

To be honest, if the players exercise and don't interrupt the exercise, a decision should be discussed and made because there are players who live only from football,” said Prepoli.

It must have income and should be fed professionally, but the other side is that if sponsors don't work and sponsors have a hard time giving money because there's no circulation, but we pray that as soon as this virus passes and we get back to normal, then everything will be as good as possible. ”

Hard to disagree with Prepole.

In fact, a professional footballer has no other job and his life would be markedly difficult in case of a financial blockade.

The light attacker Kastriot Rex even gave a very interesting comment on the matter.

“Bash at this time of isolation should give us more veneers (money),” he said jokingly.

Yes, our club will carry out all the payments, no matter what situation we are in. This is beyond question. ”

From what we understand as Redax after all these interactions with significant Kosovo football acts, it is that there is a very positive mood and will for carrying out financial obligations to club employees, but by all the answers received, it was noted that this is closely related to the timing of the crisis, as many were optimistic that this period of isolation will be short.

But what if it isn't? We remember that the well-known virologist from Hamburg, Jonas Schmidt-Chanas from the Berhard-Noch Institute recently ruled out the possibility of football coming back this year, specifying 2021 as the year when we will be able to look back at the most popular sport in the world.

If this turns out to be true, Periscope will again contact the deeds mentioned above to see if there are changes of attitude and will to stick to words.