‘Taylor has let players down’
“It’s embarrassing,” he told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Monday Night Club. “They should be speaking on the frontline – that’s what they are paid for. They are a union.
“The players are paying them to make these decisions. The players shouldn’t have to take these bullets.”
Ex-England and Blackburn striker Chris Sutton described Taylor as “out of touch”.
“These are the times you need your union boss and once he again he has let them down. He has waffled,” Sutton said.
“He is out of touch. You can see it in these moments. There is a crisis on in this country and you need a decisive head. It is a huge problem.
“This is what he is paid his vast wages for. He needs to help his members. He is setting this up so the public are turning against them.”
‘Finish the season no matter how long it takes’
Taylor said completing the season remains “top of the agenda” and that everybody in the game, including broadcasters, needs to be flexible, “no matter how long it takes.”
He added that players “would talk about [wage] deferrals in the hope that we could keep this season going eventually” in the current talks.
He suggested that, with the 2022 World Cup set to take place in Qatar in November and December, the current season could be finished this winter, with the 2021 campaign taking place during the calendar year.
“It needs to have ideas that come from left of stage to deal with what is a unique situation,” Taylor said.
If the season needs to be completed behind closed doors, Taylor said players would understand there would be no gate receipts and that different discussions would then need to take place.
“If we can’t play in front of full stadiums then the different scenarios would be looked at at the time,” he said.