Nev: Lessons must be learned from German restart

Gary Neville

GARY Neville believes the Premier League will be able to learn a lot from how the Bundesliga restart their campaign.

Germany’s league is set to become the first of Europe’s top divisions to return following the coronavirus crisis after their plans received government approval.

The German government gave approval for the Bundesliga to return in mid-May on Wednesday afternoon, with the league given the ability to decide on the dates themselves, which is expected to be Friday, May 15.

And Neville is hopeful that members of the Premier League will be able to go over to Germany to see first hand how they are managing their return.

“I think at the beginning because the Bundesliga are going to get their games away before ours, what is going to happen is the Premier League will go into training as the Bundesliga are playing matches,” he told The Football Show on Sky Sports.

“I would be hopeful at this moment in time that the Premier League, two or three of them, including medical professionals, are actually on their way to Germany somehow to actually see how it operates and understand how it is all going and be in regular consultation with the club’s doctors over there, the club’s officials, and I’m sure they are. I can’t imagine they are not.

“Even from a broadcast point of view, how you broadcast and the media side of things, I am sure here at Sky we will be consulting with our colleagues in Germany around how we deliver this.”