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05 April 2020On the one hand, economic problems, on the other, sports issues. The Italian football world tries to react to Covid-19 looking for possible solutions. This is why tomorrow the assemblies of the Serie A and Serie B leagues will meet, both strictly by videoconference given the health emergency. Waiting to understand if and when it will be possible to return to play, the clubs face the financial problem and try to understand how to limit the huge financial losses.

On the table there is always the idea of ​​a cut in the salaries of players and technical staff: this will be the main topic of the Lega Serie A assembly, which will return to meet after the meeting last Friday. Taking note of the distance with the Italian Football Association, currently available to freeze only the wages for the month of March in response to the request made by the clubs to suspend all salaries for four months, the presidents want to find a common position to then try to carry out specific negotiations with its employees, as already done by Juventus.

From the sporting point of view, meanwhile, the Football Federation continues to hope to be able to conclude the season on the pitch, also supported by the position of UEFA, willing to arrive until the end of summer in order to allow the completion of national tournaments and European competitions. "Season to be concluded also going to slide in the next September-October? It is a way to avoid compromising not only the 2019-2020 season, but also the next one", observed the FIGC president Gabriele Gravina at Domenica Sportiva.

The hope of the Football Association is still to be able to start again on May 17th, but also a return to the field in June would allow to end the championships and thus avoid "an avalanche of appeals to which we would be subjected by all the subjects who could be considered injured in their rights and interests - explained Gravina - would really run the risk of spending a championship only in courtrooms ". If the tournaments could not be concluded on the pitch, in fact, the federal council would have to make some delicate decisions, from the possible assignment of the championship to the indication of the teams for the European cups to the relegations and promotions, creating inevitable bad moods.