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Players and managers think there is a "lack of leadership" at the top of the Project Restart campaign, according to Sunday Times football chief Jonathan Northcroft.
Players and managers say the restart of English football is hit by a "lack of leadership" at the top of the game, Sunday football chief writer Jonathan Northcroft told the Supplement Sunday.
Northcroft compared the successful return of the best German Bundesliga flight on Saturday to the still incomplete Premier League plans, saying preparations for the show "should be clearer and have more agreement" to make it happen. made. .
Several personalities, including Watford boss Nigel Pearson, Brighton forward Glenn Murray and former English captain Wayne Rooney, have spoken out against a "rushed" return to first team games this week, but Northcroft said that the lack of a return date whatsoever made players and managers frustrated.
"One of the problems I hear is that there is the feeling that there is no clear roadmap, by players and managers, established by the Premier League. They had clear planning in Germany from the start, close contact with the government, "training protocols established fairly early, and we are still discussing all of this.
"Planning has to be clearer and there has to be more agreement to get to where Germany is. With all the health risks and uncertainty, players and managers have the feeling that we don't even tell them how to get ahead. " A couple I spoke to this week said that he was asked to resume training, but what date are you working on, when might we have contact training.
Measures were taken, including the social distancing of the substitutes, during Dortmund's victory over Schalke and other Bundesliga matches.
"It is important that people in the game at least feel that it is planned and taken care of. The word I always hear is leadership, lack of leadership and direction. There would be a lot more trust on their part. the game if there was a feeling that it was there at the top. It was there in Germany, but I don't think it was there yet in England. "
"Having the return date is not healthy"
With the infection rate and dates to further lift various parts of the national blockade, Daily Mail Football editor Ian Ladyman told the Supplement that a return point for the Premier League could actually backfire if it were later to be moved due to new restrictions or rules that are loosening more slowly than expected .
He said, "I understand that it's good to have an end point, a restart date, in a perfect world. But we all have to make adjustments in our lives, none of us really know what the end of each week will bring individually.
"Footballers have to accept it to a certain extent and do it step by step, and if they are asked to return to work, if they are happy to do so, they should go if train without worrying about what's going on in four weeks, just go do your job.
"They won't offer three days notice, they will get enough. I'm not sure if I have this quote in their mind as important or healthy, as it will likely change anyway." "
Rooney: rushed football
In his habit Sunday In the column, Rooney explained his feeling that English football is "being pushed" to come back too quickly with Premier League players ready to resume training on Tuesday.
He wrote: "I am desperate to train and play again, but I think that football in England is postponed too soon."
"Our government says that people can go back to work, but only with social distance from the workplace and that doesn't work in football."
"So I don't understand: until the government gives the green light to have physical contact, we will not be able to train or prepare properly."
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