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Yeah, good, first of all, I just wonder if you've been given any clear idea in the last couple of hours as to whether or not Allison, Fabino and Fimino, will be available to play.

And could you even go as far as taking the risk in playing them and then dealing with the fallout afterwards?

No. A little bit that I know but not only since last few hours that Bobby will not be available but

that is because the injury had in the last game and well rest now but it's a it's a really really it's a really difficult situation and

It's really tricky for all the clubs and and players especially because we should not forget in this moment that the players wanted to play these games.

The clubs wanted to let the players go, but it was not possible.

So I think nobody would have told us or would have expected that we just say,

go there and then be able sort it while you are away and maybe the

it's likely that you come home and have to go 10 days in a carrumting hotel.

So that's that's a problem what we had so we couldn't do that.

But now it looks like in the end of it all the things what happened in the moment.

The real punishment get the players because they can play that's what they do that's what they love to do and of course the clubs as well but let's put

That's aside for a moment for the players and that's really that's really not okay.

We didn't decide that the players have to go.

The world lives in a is in a pandemic.

We all are still. In some moments it looks like it's not but in other moments we get always reminded and that's good because we have to be really on top of that until the end of the pandemic.

But the football players so far got very often exemptions.

And that didn't lead to any spread or whatever in the cities

when a football player was positive which did happen from time to time obviously but but because of all the things we do during the week,

with all the things how often we get tested, how early we get knowledge about it, that's

completely different to the normal society out there if we get tested three times a week.

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