As long as it takes - Lloris fine with playing EPL games without fans for extended period

(AP):

Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris is in favour of playing without fans for a long time if it helps “save” football clubs amid financial uncertainty.

The English Premier League (EPL) hopes to restart games by mid-June in empty stadiums because of the coronavirus pandemic.

A World Cup winner with France, Lloris says “it’s important that football restarts, for today and tomorrow”.

“If we have to play behind closed doors for a long period of time in order to save football, then we have to,” he said.

Lloris trains at his club every other day with “specific time slots” for each player, adding that “sometimes we pass each other, but from very far away”.

In a newspaper interview with Nice-Matin, Lloris says that arriving at training already dressed in his kit reminds him“of when I started out and my grandparents would drop me off at training”.