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    soche outcome of these talks which may decide whether the Premier League feel they can push on. Mirror Sport understands player welfare was a big topic of discussion in last Friday’s Premier League meeting and there is a growing feeling that it wir their families and also there are likely to be major question marks as to whether they would even be covered by insurance should they get coronavirus. Football clubs are unlikely to be covered and player contracts do not have any clauses for a force majeure which has left them exposed but the bigger worry is that if a family player becomes infected. Medics are not convinced players - despite being generally positive in public - are sure about resuming games and the likes of Sergio Aguero and Glenn Murray have already spoken up. Aguero said: “The majority of players are scared because they have family, they have children, they have babies, parents. "It does scare me but I have just been here with my girlfriend, I haven't had contact with other people and they say that to contract the disease is very rare and difficult but they say that there are people who have it, and they don't have symptoms and they can infect you. "That's why I've stayed at home. You can be infected and you don't know anything about it." Players will now be consulted through captains, PFA reps and the clubs and the outcome will be fed back with the Premier League likely to meet again on Friday, 24 hours after the Government’s latest lockdown update. That meeting is only likely to go ahead if the Government eases lockdown measures and there is a growing feeling that the whole restart may hinge on whether the players give the go-ahead as their feelings are at last likely to be heard.

    English football bosses are on a collision course with Belgium counterparts over if the season should be allowed to be completed.

    Belgian Football Association president Mehdi Bayat is putting pressure on UEFA to cancel all leagues in Europe because of the coronavirus crisis.

    Belgium’s Jupiler-Pro league was shut down two weeks ago and they are among several countries keen for the current campaign to be declared null and void.

    Last week Belgium and Manchester City superstar Kevin De Bruyne insisted the season should be cancelled – and that resuming games with little preparation would leave players at risk of serious injury.

    Bayat has lobbied other associations for support and is understood to have got the backing of several of them.

    UEFA bosses will hold a video conference meeting next week to decide on a schedule for countries to follow to get football played again.

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    President Aleksander Ceferin has made it clear he wants football to start up again across Europe.

    Ceferin has outlined a provisional plan to get domestic leagues finished by early August, with the Champions League and Europa League being concluded by the end of that month.

    But the Belgians are against the idea of football resuming – and have got support from several other countries not as reliant on TV revenue.

    It leaves them on a collision course with the Premier League and EFL, who are both desperate to see the campaign finished no matter how long it takes.


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