Premier League chiefs are set to hold a crunch meeting with club bosses on Thursday to decide the fate of the season amid the continuing coronavirus crisis. We take a look at all the big questions...

An advanced statistical model, created by the professor of mathematics at Columbia University, has crunched the numbers of the Premier League and given a deep insight as to how the season ends.

Manchester United and Liverpool are among clubs to insist they will continue to pay staff who would miss out financially. Here, Sportsmail has identified what each club is doing to help protect their incomes.

EXCLUSIVE: Premier League clubs are facing the threat of a mass legal action from agents demanding up to £300million in fees due to be paid this season.

JOE BERNSTEIN: The last active English footballers in Europe are returning home after lower division football in Sweden was called off until the end of April.

With the fate of the Premier League season still up in the air due to the coronavirus crisis, fans have been left to speculate about how the rest of the campaign will pan out.

With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to take its toll, footballers are looking to interact with their fanbases more and more through social media. But one appears to have overshared.

Tottenham will be on the lookout for a new right-back in the summer leaving Serge Aurier's future in doubt. Aurier courted controversy on Tuesday by breaching lockdown regulations.

Dier claimed he had left the pitch and entered the stands, clambering over rows of seats in an attempt to protect his brother who he noticed had become involved in an argument with an angry fan.

An advanced statistical model, created by the professor of mathematics at Columbia University, has crunched the numbers of the Premier League and given a deep insight as to how the season ends.

The central defender has been a key man for the Anfield club over the last few seasons, having helped them win the Champions League in his first full campaign on Merseyside.

MATT SPIRO IN FRANCE:Lyon's president Jean-Michel Aulas and his Marseille counterpart Jacques-Henri Eyraud have been going at each other with relish over the past few days.

Despite the French giants topping Ligue 1 and having reached the Champions League quarter finals, it is believed that the club are determined to make a change at the end of the season.

The father-of-three was subject to an unprovoked attack from away supporters which left him in a coma with serious brain injuries outside Anfield two years ago.

UEFA are set to go easy on Financial Fair Play rules for this season and next. But this approach will not benefit Manchester City, who remain banned from the Champions League for the next two seasons.

The 24-year-old forward on loan from Roma joined the Bundesliga side in September on a season-long deal. Schick has now revealed his intentions to move to England in the near future.

The coronavirus crisis has swept the globe and nothing has been left untouched. That applies too to sport, which has been fairly absent across the world over the last week.

Roy Keane was famous for his drive on the pitch, and during his time at United he helped lead them to seven Premier League titles, four FA Cups and one Champions League.

EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE KEEGAN: Sportsmail can reveal that the entire top 10 - with the exception of City and Sheffield United - have submitted a joint application to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

COMMENT: The top 10 - bar Sheffield United, and good for them - seek to ban Manchester City from Europe next season, regardless of the state of their appeal against a UEFA-imposed sanction.

After shooting onto the scene in 2017, Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold has achieved everything that a young academy player dreams of in his career and he is just 21 years old.

Since joining Liverpool in an eye-watering £65million deal in the summer of 2018 from Roma, Alisson has quickly emerged as arguably the best goalkeeper in the Premier League, if not the world.

JAMIE REDKNAPP: Harry Kane is at home, in self-isolation, with a series of Tottenham Hotspur shirts on the wall behind him and Sportsmail's Jamie Redknapp on the screen in front.

With the fate of the Premier League season still up in the air due to the coronavirus crisis, fans have been left to speculate about how the rest of the campaign will pan out.

With Diego Simeone earning £8.9million more than any of his peers in management, it is little wonder Atletico Madrid are one of the clubs who could most struggle financially from the shut-down.

It is not clear whether the warning is for Neymar and PSG's mocking of Dortmund striker Erling Haaland during and after the game or for the fracas that emerged when Emre Can was sent off.

Voiding the 2019-20 season is now reportedly 'off the table' with UEFA and the European leagues committing to completing the current campaign.

The governing body made the announcement on Wednesday afternoon that all men's and women's international matches scheduled for that month would not be played 'until further notice'.

Placing both the Champions League and Europa League on hold while domestic seasons are played out is one of the proposals being looked at by UEFA, Sportsmail understands.

UEFA have reportedly drawn up a calendar to try and get the Champions League finished in August, and are considering a mini four-team tournament to end it.

Liverpool council's director of public health has suggested the rise in coronavirus cases in the city may be influenced by the decision to allow the Reds' match against Atletico to take place.

Former Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna says the club would be making a huge mistake if they sold Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang this summer after hailing him as the best striker in England.

The visitors went on to win the game on March 11 and advance to the quarter-final stage of the Champions League - but there were concerns pre-match that it should not have been held.

Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has revealed how all-English Champions League ties were always the most pressurised matches he played in club football.

PSG defender Marquinhos has revealed that team-mate Neymar had pre-planned his controversial celebration after they advanced against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League.

A Brazilian by the nickname El Fenomeno lived up to his billing at Old Trafford in April 2003. This was the night Ronaldo - the original - produced his greatest Champions League performance.

The Gunners want their squad take a full wage reduction, believed to be in the region of 12.5 percent, for a 12 month period starting from this month, with the club desperate to trim their wage bill.

Belgium is at the forefront of a growing number of nations in favour of ending the 2019-20 season straight away and they intend to lobby UEFA at a showdown meeting next Thursday.

After the final was set to be held on May 30 but was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic, UEFA have set out a new plan in order to finish the competition but need help from all European leagues.

In his teen years, a professional deal at Sunderland was in the balance, but it was Henderson's well-known dedication and attitude which swung the decision in his favour.

Liverpool's dominant period of success could lead some to rest on their laurels, but Dejan Lovren is adamant that the appetite in the Melwood camp remains as ruthless as ever.

It has been reported that an agreement has been reached which will see outstanding Champions League and Europa League ties be played throughout August before the new season.

ALVISE CAGNAZZO IN ITALY: Roma's plans for the next transfer window are based mainly around Arsenal's Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Manchester United's Chris Smalling. 

Leagues unable to finish will be advised to stage play-off games to determine key positions in the table, which would directly affect sides in the Champions League race.

AHEAD OF THE GAME - MATT HUGHES: Sky Sports and BT Sport will resist pressure to screen for free the 47 Premier League matches they have left this season.

Even if Newcastle's takeover happens, spending restrictions in place at domestic level in the Premier League and at UEFA level will make it difficult for the club to spend high amounts.

OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Voiding the Premier League season is not an option that we should even be entertaining. The same applies to all our leagues.

Former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy admitted he regrets leaving the club before they won the Champions League in 2005.

PSG chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi said in a statement that while they respect the actions of the French government, they fully intend to feature in Europe's premier club competition.

France prime minister Edouard Philippe announced this week that 'no major sporting events can take place in the country before September' due to the coronavirus pandemic.