Gary Neville has outlined what he thinks will be discussed at Monday’s meeting involving Everton and Liverpool.
All 20 Premier League, including both Merseyside outfits, will be present from today’s meeting that will discuss whether or not to postpone the season.
Rising cases of Covid-19 in recent weeks have led to matches across the country being called off.
Everton had their weekend’s match against Leicester City postponed due to a Covid outbreak in the Foxes camp.
Liverpool have had several positive cases in their squad, with players missing the past two matches against Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur.
The past weekend saw six matches being called off, and there is growing uncertainty over whether the season will be temporarily halted.
Speaking on the Gary Neville podcast for Sky Sports, the former Manchester United skipper explained what he thinks Jurgen Klopp and Rafa Benitez will be wanting to know from the Premier League.
Neville also outlined the two big questions that he thinks will be discussed in Monday’s meeting.
Neville said: “I think the managers in that meeting, one of the first questions will be do we carry on?
“I think they’ll get to the conclusion that they will carry on in some form, depending on what the government announcement may be in the next few days.
“The second question will be how come they were called off and we weren’t? Just tell us why some teams were allowed to be called off and we weren’t.
“What is the tipping point, what’s the number and the criteria for calling a match off, versus not calling a match off, that’s what the managers will be asking.
“Whether there’s transparency between them and we still don’t get to find out.
“If all the clubs were to know what the criteria is, maybe they do, but it wouldn’t seem that they do because you’ve got managers saying ‘why has that game been called off’, so it doesn’t seem consistent.
“I think that’s the second question that will be asked by managers in that meeting.”
Neville responded to suggestions that possible postponement to the season could lead to changes in the festive football calendar.
The Sky Sports pundit also explained the negatives behind a possible 10-day break which has been rumoured to be in the pipeline.
“There are always those questions (about too many games), but these players and managers, I can’t think of any manager in this league that hasn’t faced that before,” said Neville.
“I wouldn’t change it because of what’s happening with Covid, that’s not a reason to change it.
“I would say what does a 10-day break give you? Because you’re going to start again, players will be mixing, they’ll be back in training and what if they get positive in the next few weeks?
“I get that you get everyone clean, but then you’ve got the build-up period to get everyone fit again.
“Then what happens if there are Covid cases again, because this thing isn’t going away.
“I don’t think they’ll stop, the reason being if they did there’s no guarantee that they won’t end up in the same position 10 days later and have to stop again.
“There’s an element here of having to try and ride through it.
“The protocols that clubs are now under, I know that from the changes in the EFL this week with Salford.
“We’re back to where each player has to travel in their car, they have to get out and they’re not allowed in the training ground unless they’re asking for a strapping, then you have to have PPE on.
“They get back out on the training pitch and straight after they’re back in their cars, so they’ve not got any indoor contact to restrict the contact time indoors where transmission can spread and players can become positive.
“You’re then asking players to show real discipline at home with their families, and over Christmas will that happen?
“That’s the challenge, what does a 10-day break give you that won’t then resurface after that?
“So I think that games will continue, the season will continue, but the big question will be, and that will come from the government, is whether sporting stadiums are allowed to have fans in again.
“We know how brilliant it’s been to have fans back in the stadium, and whether the government is going to continue to allow that.”
