Brighton striker Glenn Murray fears football is being rushed back.
The veteran frontman says he is baffled over plans to return next month ahead of a potential 'second peak' of the virus in the UK.
The Premier League met with clubs on Monday to discuss a return to group training with hopes the season can resume around the middle of June.
“Football isn’t necessarily a necessity – it’s a game, it’s a sport,” Murray told Sky Sports .
“I mean, what if we go through all this rigmarole of trying to get back started and we have a second peak and we’re stopped anyways?
“I just can’t understand after just sort of loosening the lockdown why we’re in such a rush to get it back. Why can’t we just wait sort of a month or so to see if things go to plan?”
Murray also spoke about why players fear a return to work may come too soon.
“When I say some players may be reluctant to return I don’t want that to be perceived as sort of this snowflake mentality and ‘we’re worried about ourselves’ because I don’t think that’s the case," he added.
“It’s more about the people we’re going home to that we’re worried about and everyone’s in different situations and have different people at home with possible illnesses or pregnancies or children, young newborns. We just need to take everyone’s situations into consideration.”
Bundesliga is set to return this weekend and all eyes are on Germany to see whether football can return without any complications.
But the scenario in Germany is very different, as Murray points out.
“We’re all going to be watching the Bundesliga because it’s football and we all love football,” he said.
“It’ll be nice to see a live sport on TV without doubt. But I think what we’re not taking into consideration is that Germany have only had seven, eight thousand deaths, I think, and they’ve got 20 million more people than us.
“We’re up to like 34,000 now - we’re the worst hit in Europe. No one seems to take that in consideration.”
