Jurgen Klopp insists the Premier League ‘cannot force’ the return of the 2019/20 season.
Liverpool’s long-awaited first title win since 1990 stood just two wins away before the coronavirus pandemic shut down football around the world.
A mid-June resumption date is being mooted for the English top flight which would come after the UK government relaxes lockdown measures on May 7.
In Klopp’s native Germany, the Bundesliga is already preparing to restart its competitive fixtures behind closed doors from May 9 at the earliest.
But despite acknowledging the importance of football’s return, the Liverpool manager remains cautious about how quickly the process is implemented.
“Here I have no connection to these kinds of people but we know what we want,” Klopp told Sky Sports News.
“The first thing is that everybody is safe and healthy, but at the moment when it’s possible to start training again then, of course, we will do that.
“You see we are all at home, we are all isolated and if we have no cases and stuff like this we can train in groups of two or five, six or eight, or however they did it in Germany, and respect all the other rules.
“But I’m not sure when that will be possible. We have to wait for the government, like everybody, and developments.
“We cannot force it and we will not. It is absolutely not important.
“If football can help in some departments with lifting the mood and stuff like that and giving people something to think about and to deal with it in a different way then we have to start training at one point.
“But I don’t know when it will be.”