The Premier League may sideline the Football Association in a historic bid to persuade the Home Office to bring in a special visa system, as the row over post-Brexit quotas rages on with days to the deadline.
Crisis talks will be held on Tuesday between clubs after ‘difficult discussions’ with the governing body failed to reach an agreement.
In a lengthy email sent to chairmen and chief executives and seen by Sportsmail, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters paints a stark picture of the situation with FA chairman Greg Clarke and discloses that they may swerve the FA entirely and present their own visa system to the Home Office.