The Premier League is living a turbulent week on its return to training. The English league has allowed teams to return to their facilities , respecting sanitary measures and safety distances, but that is not enough for many players.

Always adapting its calendar to the guidelines of the country's National Health Service, as is the case here in Spain, the return of the Premier's official calendar could be delayed until the end of June , and not only due to the slow evolution of the de-escalation, but also due to the refusal of many soccer players to train until there is maximum security for themselves and their families.

This is the case of Troy Deeney , a Watford star who has refused to train after one of his colleagues and two staff members tested positive for coronavirus. Three of the six positive cases in three different clubs that the English league has had. "It only takes one person to become infected to infect the whole group, and I don't want to bring the virus into my home ," Deeney explained this week. "My son is only five months old and has respiratory problems, so I don't plan to expose him to more danger."

The Watford captain also referred to government guidelines, which ensure that people of color are more likely to contract the virus. " I ask questions and they don't answer me . And when someone doesn't answer your questions, you start to think badly and worry," he admitted, in an interview to the YouTube channel 'Talk the Talk'. "I can't count my hair until mid-July, but I can get into a locker room with 19 people and fight for an aerial ball? I don't see any point in it." Even Watford's own coach Nigel Pearson has criticized the rush to re-train and has said he will not force his players to do so.

The Burnley has also confirmed this week a positive assistant coach, which joined Watford cases have alerted other clubs and players. "We are being treated like laboratory rats," Newcastle player Danny Rose complained . Others, like Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante ', have followed Deeney's lead and refused to train until there is more security. The French player, world champion with his team in the last World Cup in Russia, has received permission from the London club to train from home and will not be penalized.

Kanté has been one of the more than 700 people in the Premier who have tested positive and Chelsea have not reported any positive, but despite all their coach Frank Lampard has granted him the desire to stay away from his teammates, that today train in small groups.

Agüero, a star in Manchester City, acknowledged this week that footballers were "scared": "Many have families, children, babies ... You have to be careful."

But where is the line of that interpretable "security" that Kanté and Deeney demand to retrain? Can your teams sanction them without pay while they don't train? Taking into account the example of the Bundesliga , the other major leagues in Europe will return without an audience and with great security measures. In other words, football will not wait for a vaccine. " I think if they don't train, they shouldn't get paid, " explains a Premier club manager to 'Sky Sports': "If you ask people on the street if they would train after passing the test in exchange for $ 60,000 a the week, they would say yes. "

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