EFL club doctors, who are helping guide decisions, are split about how any restart would happen. Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley has previously spoken about the "disastrous" impact of the pandemic on the EFL and now the League One club are bracing themselves for months of financial turmoil. "We celebrate our 100th anniversary as a Football League club on 21 August 2021 and we want to be there as an EFL member club, and we are doing everything we possibly can to make sure that happens." "People need to be paid and the biggest cost base in any football club is the playing staff." Gillingham chairman Paul Scally says that many football clubs were already "overstretched" and "feeling the pain" before the Covid-19 pandemic took effect.

Source: BBC May 06, 2020 15:41 UTC