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The Premier League is ready to ask the government to reconsider its stance on using neutral venues to complete the season after ‘more than half’ of high-flying clubs requested to use their own stadium.
The teams are still divided on whether or not to end the season in neutral places after the last round of talks on Monday, but have decided to extend the contracts of the players that expire on June 30.
Executives from all 20 Premier League clubs held their last video conference on Monday to discuss a variety of issues related to the suspended top flight season.
Premier League clubs held a meeting on Monday to discuss how Project Restart will work.
It has not yet been decided whether the matches will be held in neutral locations.
Wembley has been identified as a stadium that could host Premier League matches
Chief among them was Project Restart, and plans to end the current 2019-20 campaign, but so far no final decision has been made about it.
Initially, a vote was scheduled for Monday’s decisive meeting, but it has been postponed and is now expected to take place on May 18.
However, according to The Sun, the clubs were still unable to agree on proposals to play the remaining matches in neutral venues.
The plan remains to resume the campaign on June 12, with the stars and key personnel being screened for coronaviruses twice a week and games played behind closed doors in neutral locations like Wembley or St George’s Park.
But Monday’s talks reportedly lasted just under four hours and there was no indication that any club had changed their minds about neutral locations, although the talks did not heat up.
However, The times They claim that the Premier League will now contact the government to ask them to reconsider the need to use neutral locations. The German Bundesliga is planning to restart the use of home and away teams this weekend.
The Telegraph added that clubs with stadium sponsorship deals are increasingly concerned about the threat of losing that money or having to pay millions if their stadium is not used as one of the neutral venues.
The government’s roadmap revealed that top-level sport in England could be restarted behind closed doors from June 1
The head of the UK football police police unit, Mark Roberts, has insisted that the issue in neutral places “is not a big deal.”
The news of the matchup is likely to infuriate police chiefs after Martin Roberts, the head of the UK soccer police unit, told clubs that they opposed plans to play on neutral grounds last week.
Deputy Police Chief Roberts reminded complainers of integrity issues that more than 30,000 people in the UK had lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus.
He said: ‘We need to tune things up. When you see people argue that integrity is so important that “we played them away and now it’s neutral” or “they had their fans and we can’t have ours”, it could be a big problem in terms of football, but in a Wider society where we have lost 30,000 people and growth is no big deal.
“Some people in soccer need to control and recognize that there is a bigger picture here.”
According to The Independent, the FA also told the clubs at the beginning of the meeting that the season must be resolved on “sports merit.”
This means that if the remaining games cannot be played as usual, a method such as points per game or the one used in France to design a final table can come into play. It is claimed to nullify the season “it remains completely off the table.”
Player contracts were also high on the agenda at Monday’s decisive meeting, and votes were voted on.
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The clubs gave the green light to temporarily extend the player contracts that were in effect at the end of next month until the season is complete.
Some of the high-profile names to which these rules apply are the likes of Jan Vertonghen, Willian, Adam Lallana, and Olivier Giroud.
The agreement also means that players currently on loan at clubs can also extend their stays, although “both clubs and the player must agree to the extension if two Premier League clubs are involved.”
There has been a lot of confusion about the Premier League’s plans, with pressure applied in the English top flight to make a decision after France canceled its season, while Germany moves on to closed-door matches next weekend.
Entering Monday’s meeting, it was understood that six clubs, Aston Villa, Watford and Brighton, were the most vocal of them, they were against playing on neutral ground and instead wanted to keep their home advantage.
There is a general consensus that the season will end one way or another when it is safe to do so, as England seeks to follow people like Germany instead of the Netherlands and France, who have scaled back their own campaigns.
It is understood that relegation is unlikely to be lifted if football returns, despite initial anger from clubs at the lower levels of the top flight that were concerned with preserving their status in the richest league in world football.
Liverpool’s Adam Lallana is one of the Premier League players without a contract on July 1
Norwich and Aston Villa are among clubs unhappy about playing games in neutral venues
Soccer has not been played since March 13, nearly two months ago, with more than 31,000 people now dying in the current coronavirus pandemic.
Boris Johnson addressed the nation on Sunday night, but no specific guidance was given on professional sports and when it would be safe to resume.
On Monday, the government released a more detailed plan, revealing that top-level sport in England could restart behind closed doors starting June 1, but spectators will not be able to attend the venues until a vaccine is found.
The second step of the roadmap, which cannot begin before June 1, includes “allowing cultural and sporting events to take place behind closed doors for broadcast, avoiding the risk of large-scale social contact.”
However, this will only be possible if sufficient progress is made to limit the spread of the virus from time to time, but the document entitled ‘Our plan to rebuild: the UK government’s Covid-19 recovery strategy’ says that ‘ Organizations should plan accordingly. ‘
The new guidelines mean that Premier League football has the green light to resume on the proposed date of June 12, if all 20 clubs win a vote in the coming weeks.
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