Jeff Shreves

It depends if I was prompting them or not, because I think the pozos will be telling them not to play.

I really do.

I mean, why would you want to risk the hundreds of millions of pounds that's at stake for the club and the Premier League status and everything else that comes with it?

And look, I like Troy.

I don't want to get in a war of words with Troy.

I totally understand his reasons for not playing.

If he doesn't want to play, he's obviously got a young lad there.

And your family's health is absolutely paramount.

But from my experience of playing for these Premier League clubs, you don't usually have 11 players.

I mean, you don't usually have 20 players.

They've probably got 50, 60, 70 players if you go into the under-19s and 23s and so on and so forth.

So if Troy doesn't want to play, and I've seen Glenn Murray's been vocal about this, I think Willian's been vocal, Aguero, Kante's not going to play, I think that's fine.

I think you should not be able to play if you have safety concerns.

And I'm not even saying don't pay them, don't give them the money, which some football people would say.

I'm saying, look, you can choose not to play, no problem at all.

But we have to get on with the competition because it's safe to do so.

I've been on...

LMA calls last week with the PFA, the LMA, the EFL, I mean, you name it, doctors, it was all the League One managers.

They've talked us through the protocols, tested twice before you're allowed to come into training, temperature taken every day and monitored, tested twice in the build-up to games.

So there won't be a safer place.