Chelsea have put player contract talks on hold as the club wait to find out what will happen if the coronavirus crisis forces the season to go beyond June 30.

The Blues have four players - Willian, Olivier Giroud, Pedro Rodriguez and Willy Caballero - approaching the expiry of their current deals. And they also want to secure top scorer Tammy Abraham to a new contract with two more years remaining of his current deal after this season.

Contrary to reports, Abraham has not demanded £180,000-a-week salary or asked to be made the highest earner at the club. Abraham had been concentrating on trying to regain full fitness before Chelsea players were sent into isolation after Callum Hudson-Odoi became the first Premier League player to test positive for coronavirus.

And with the League season now suspended until April 30 at the earliest, Abraham and the rest of the Chelsea squad are training at home and following Government guidelines on social distancing.

Clubs expect to be allowed to hand players temporary contracts or pay them on a weekly basis if the season runs past June 30, when deals expire. That would mean Willian, Giroud, Pedro and Caballero would be able to at least see out the current campaign with Chelsea.