The potential postponement of the AFCON (African Cup of Nations) would help Liverpool avoid a ‘catastrophe’.
We don’t know yet what’s going to happen with the AFCON but postponement is a real possibility. The tournament, set to take place in January 2021, is now in doubt after the CAF postponed March qualifiers.
As of now, we don’t know when football could resume, or what it’ll look like when it does. Will there even be time to play qualifiers with so much chaos in the calendar?
Per AS, UEFA feel that postponing Euro 2020 is ‘inevitable’. The Telegraph claimed last night that we might even see a calendar-year Premier League. In short, anything could happen.
That all puts a 2021 AFCON in serious doubt. But any postponement would help Liverpool avoid a ‘catastrophe’, as Jurgen Klopp put it.
A January tournament is very bad news for Liverpool. Their two top scorers are African, after all, and would miss a valuable chunk of the season. It means there’s a difficult problem to solve – do they sign cover just for January? Or do Liverpool risk breaking up their front-three to help solve things?
It clearly worried Klopp but postponement fixes that problem. It would mean that neither Mohamed Salah or Sadio Mane would miss any football played in January. There’s also the bonus of added time for Liverpool to figure out any potential signings to deal with the eventual tournament – whenever that is.
So while football is chaotic right now, this one might make things a little simpler for Liverpool.
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