Alberto Colombo, the deputy general secretary of European Leagues Association, has spoken with Gazzetta dello Sport in a bid to try and provide some clarity in amongst all of the current confusion.

Due to the global Coronavirus pandemic, football across the continent has been put on hold and it remains a mystery as to when football will resume.

European football’s governing body UEFA agreed to postpone the European Championship’s from this Summer to next to give leagues an extra month to try and complete their seasons by the end of June but Italian football president Gabriele Gravina has admitted that the Italian football season may run into mid-July.

Colombo started the interview with the Milan based newspaper by discussing the decision to move the European Championship’s.

“There was an unanimous agreement between UEFA, federations, leagues, clubs and players. We shouldn’t underestimate it.

“We were all convinced that the best solution was to move the European Championship. It is too difficult to organise the tournament in this situation, between twelve countries. Besides, it’s a people’s festival, you can’t play behind closed doors. You can do it with leagues but its still not the same thing.

“Absolutely all leagues, Champions League and Europa League will be finished by June 30. The postponement of the Euro’s have put us in a position to do so. We don’t know when we can start again and therefore we will have to develop several scenarios.”

He was then asked about Gravina’s recent admission to which he simply responded: “No league spoke of going on into July.”

He proceeded to talk about reports that have suggested that the remaining Champions League and Europa League matches could take place on weekends, something a number of clubs are seemingly not keen on.

“The agreement with the leagues included them being totally flexible on the possible use of all possible dates at the end of June but perhaps it has not been made clear enough.

“Total flexibility means giving the leagues the opportunity to play normally on weekends but also during the midweek rounds dedicated to the cups.

“In the same way, the cups can be played both during the week and on the weekend at the same time as the league matches. It is an emergency and extraordinary solution in the short term and only a possible one.

“If the calendar allows us to play on the normal days, if we start again soon, it [playing on weekends] will not even be taken into consideration.”

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