There is a 75% chance the Premier League season will not be completed due to coronavirus, a senior club source has told Sky Sports News.
English football chiefs decided on Friday to suspend Premier League and all other top-level football fixtures until 3 April at the earliest because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The virus outbreak is causing major disruption to the sporting calendar and may not reach its peak until 10-14 weeks' time - well after the football season is due to finish.
The Premier League club source told SSN's Kaveh Solhekol: "I can't see any chance we will be back in three weeks. This will go on for months and you wonder even about the start of next season."
He added: "I'd say there is a 75% chance the season will not be completed. There are huge questions to answer. Does anybody get promoted or relegated?
"Many clubs in all four divisions will struggle financially."
An emergency Premier League meeting is set to take place on Thursday when football chiefs will decide what happens next.
If the season is not completed then these are some of the possible scenarios:
- Give the title to Liverpool and have no relegations this season. Next season there would be 22 teams in the Premier League - with West Brom and Leeds promoted from the Championship
- The season is declared null and void and next season begins with the same 20 teams - unlikely, especially because Liverpool are 25 points clear at the top of the table and have all but won their first title for 30 years
- The table as it stands now is the final table - unlikely, because it would be unfair to relegate Bournemouth, Aston Villa and Norwich after only 29 matchdays
West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady says this season's Premier League should be declared "null and void" if it can't be finished due to the pandemic.
Ms Brady, who will attend the Premier League meeting on Thursday, claimed it would be "the only fair and reasonable thing to do" if there are further delays to the season.
"Suspension or cancellation of the league was always a certainty," she wrote in The Sun.
"There is no dodging the possibility that all levels in the EFL, as well as the Premier League, will have to be cancelled and this season declared null and void because if the players can't play the games can't go ahead.
"The PL hopes that an interlude of three weeks from today will enable it to restart but that may well be dreamland."
She added: "Who knows who would have gone down or come up if the games have not actually been played in full?
"[It is] a huge blow to Liverpool who might be robbed of their first title in 30 years. This will be discussed between the PL and the clubs next week at an emergency meeting."
Relegation-threatened West Ham currently sit 16th in the table, level on points with AFC Bournemouth in 18th.
Premier League clubs are waiting to see what happens at a meeting of European football stakeholders which UEFA has scheduled on Tuesday.
Leading figures in the European game will decide what to do about this season's Champions League, Europa League and Euro 2020.
2020-03-14 11:00:22Z
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