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It's the kinpom. It's the biggest shock that the football industry has ever faced.

Even in the football industry, never mind in the wider sports industry, never mind in the wider UK economy, never mind in the global stuff. Transformational stuff was happening on a daily basis.

I think that clubs will be harsher in the negotiations with agents and players just because of the COVID losses.

This week on Sky Sports, we've been examining the impact of fans being shut out of stadiums

due to the coronavirus pandemic. We've told the story of how and why the game was forced behind

closed doors and we've looked at the changes that

new environment had on the way the game is played. But the financial cost of the past 12 months is huge.

And as you heard in the introduction, the scale of the damage and the way it could affect how clubs are run in the future is yet to be seen.

I'm Peter Smith and this is counting the cost, COVID's impact on football's

finances. Each year, accountancy firm Deloitte produces its football money league. If you haven't

seen it before, it's a ranking of football clubs based on their financial performances over the past

12 months. And typically, it's the growth and earning power of Europe's giants which

grabs the headlines. But the latest report, released in January, looked quite different.

It took into account the 2019-20 season. Now, only the final few months of that campaign were

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