Amid the growing public rows that have raged about Project Restart over recent weeks, the silence from the Premier League has been deafening.
The richest league in the world have been accused of lacking leadership, with many informed observers remarking that they are missing the authority of former executive chairman Richard Scudamore, but there is method in their apparent meekness.
New chief executive Richard Masters has gambled his reputation, the league's global standing and £762million of TV money on a softly-softly strategy, accepting the short-term damage that has come from the clubs squabbling in public in the belief that they will eventually unite around a resumption next month.