WEST HAM star Manuel Lanzini says it will be ‘madness’ for the Premier League to return before there is a vaccine against Covid-19.
Lanzini has begun light training alone like the rest of the Hammers squad as league bosses desperately try to resume the season next month.
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But the Argentina star is not happy to rush back, with some scientists predicting a vaccine is 18 months away.
Lanzini said: “To my mind it would be madness for the Premier League to resume before there is a vaccine available to protect us.
“I obviously want to play once again, but you need to protect others. I would not start right now.”
The playmaker also claimed the prospect of flying to Australia to finish the season is just as silly.
In an interview in Argentina, he added: “I don’t think anything would change by going to another country.
“They can’t send us out onto the pitch as though nothing had happened. Players have to be protected.
“We have begun individual training this week. I get an hour to do the work the coach gives me.
“It is just me and a teammate, at a distance from one another. There are just one or two people at the club.
Premier League clubs have agreed to play at eight neutral venues if the Government agrees football can restart
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“We can’t use the training ground or the dressing-rooms – we have to turn up already changed into our kit.
“We’ll have to take some medical tests in a day, as West Ham believe that the Premier League will soon be back.
“Next week up to five of us will train, and it’ll be the entire squad in two weeks’ time.”
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