The Bundesliga will return in nine days’ time after chancellor Angela Merkel confitms plans to ease corobavirus control measures tonight.

Merkel plans to ease measures to control coronavirus in a teleconference on Wednesday, opening up the Bundesliga to a return.

Largeshops will reopen from May 11th and the Bundesliga can resume matches under strict conditions without fans in stadiums. Germany are already taking steps back to normality reopening hairdressers and so on.

Unlike in England, German clubs were already preparing for the return of football by restarting squad training last month. The Premier League is obviously still a couple of steps behind at this stage.

Most of the top European leagues are looking to the Bundeskiga now, though. If they only manage a couple of games before a coronavirus outbreak and a spike in German cases, that’s obviously going to the the season pretty quickly.

Arsenal are already back in individual training, but no squad training just yet. That’s the next step, but they need the government’s backing first. An update us expected tomorrow(Thursday) after tbe government’s latest lockdown review.