Brighton & Hove Albion striker Glenn Murray insists the Championship must finish alongside the Premier League if relegation and promotion is to stand this season.
Both divisions are pushing for a return to action in mid-June but there are still a number of issues to overcome.
Murray - who emerged as a transfer target for Nottingham Forest in January - agrees with the view first aired by Norwich City sporting director Stuart Webber.
“Our standpoint is if the games get played, the worse three teams in the league get relegated. That is plain and simple, it always will be and hopefully it will be in this case as well,” Murray told Sky Sports’ Football Show.
“My only thought on that is the Championship. If we manage to play our games in the Premier League, whoever finishes in the bottom three deserves to go down, but to be relegated you need the Championship to finish their games. If they don’t finish their games, they don’t deserve to be promoted.
“We’re talking about fairness and we’re trying our best to get the Premier League season, nobody wants it voided. All the players agree the bottom three sides are the worst in the division and deserve to go down but if the clubs below us in the Championship aren’t finishing their season, why should they get promoted?
“If the Championship is finished, brilliant. Whoever finishes in the bottom-three places and whoever wins the playoffs and finishes in the top-two in the Championship gets promoted but if the Premier League finishes and we get relegated without them kicking a ball then I can’t see that it’s a fair way for things to finish.”
The majority of clubs in the Premier League and the Championship have nine fixtures left to play in the 2019-20 season but the EFL also has the play-offs on their calendar, which would decide the final promotion spot.
Forest will be hoping to secure their place in the top six - they currently sit fifth with nine games of the regular campaign to go.
Leeds United and West Brom currently occupy the two automatic promotion positions in the Championship, while Norwich City, Aston Villa and Bournemouth find themselves in the Premier League’s relegation zone.
Murray's Brighton are 15th in the top flight - two points clear of the drop zone as it stands.
