Players warn of extended strike

The Players’ Association has warned the Serie A strike could go beyond the opening weekend “if clubs don’t change their attitude.”

The AIC called off the Week 1 fixtures, set for today and tomorrow, after the union of Serie A clubs (Lega) refused to sign a collective bargaining contract.

“If the clubs don’t come together to talk and change their attitude, then it will be difficult to negotiate,” Vice-President Umberto Calcagno told Sky Sport Italia.

“We proffered a hand towards the Lega, including yesterday’s proposal of an interim agreement to avoid the strike.

“It’s difficult to know when we could see each other for talks again. We are available 24/7, but for the moment there are no meetings lined up.”

There are fears the strike could continue, though due to the break for international duty, Serie A won’t kick off until the weekend of September 11.

“We hope the Lega can make a more organic proposal that respects the agreements already reached in recent months, otherwise we risk failing to target the real problem.

“Our interim deal was meant to stand by those agreements for a year so we could sit round a table again, but it was not accepted.”

The Lega have accused the AIC of refusing to accept a solidarity payment to help unemployed players, but the most important issue is that of players in contract disputes being forced to train separately from the squad.

“The players have always said we’d respect the law with regards to the solidarity contribution and there is absolutely no problem there,” assured Calcagno

I have a question,

Will juve's first match will be against udinese or Parma (fixture 2)?

salmano9 wrote:I have a question,

Will juve's first match will be against udinese or Parma (fixture 2)?

I'm pretty sure its against Parma and we will se the first round matches played at a later fixed time.

Whens the next meeting?

salmano9 wrote:Whens the next meeting?

11th September

fkn Tommasi, I called off work just for Serie A....

This is Marotta's fault too!
I hate him he is killing football all over the World

It's Marotta's fault that image can't be displayed for the moment!
I hate him! He has moved on from football and is now destroying the internet!

Somebody must stop him and stop him soon

Luca wrote:This is Marotta's fault too!
I hate him he is killing football all over the World

Sarcasm, Luca I understand how you feel as some haters like bashing the national team and claiming us lucky, cheaters and what not. And me and WigglesWorth act the same way with sarcastic posts like this, but we do it because those haters as in this case some of us who are not in favor for Marotta at least the logic and back it up on a constant basis, fine some don't, but me, you should know, in the past and now, I've backed it up many times. So sacarsm like this, is like disrespecting ones' opinion, sure I might always be up somones kiester when I don't agree with them, but I don't do direct posts like that, except with Abate of course... because that's not an opinion, that's just nonesense.

sciacca wrote:

Luca wrote:This is Marotta's fault too!
I hate him he is killing football all over the World

Sarcasm, Luca I understand how you feel as some haters like bashing the national team and claiming us lucky, cheaters and what not. And me and WigglesWorth act the same way with sarcastic posts like this, but we do it because those haters as in this case some of us who are not in favor for Marotta at least the logic and back it up on a constant basis, fine some don't, but me, you should know, in the past and now, I've backed it up many times. So sacarsm like this, is like disrespecting ones' opinion, sure I might always be up somones kiester when I don't agree with them, but I don't do direct posts like that, except with Abate of course... because that's not an opinion, that's just nonesense.

It's just a little fun
Honestly, it's how I feel when I open threads lately...

Bah, do as you wish, just explaining. Though, it's not a feeling, most of the time, it's just reality

so the meeting will be same date as fixture 2?