FIFA look set to enforce contract extensions that will see players stay with their current clubs until the 2019/20 season is over, even if their current deal ends in the summer.
Almost 100 Scottish Premiership players are out of contract and the vast majority of players in the lower leagues of the game run on year by year deals.
FIFA will now look to ensure they stick with their current club until the campaign is over, and are also looking at moving the transfer window so that it falls between the end of the current season and the start of next.And that drops a major hint that they will push for the current season to be completed on the field with no decisions made on titles and relegations in the boardroom.