Everton chief Keith Wyness has revealed the Premiership's global round plans are still under discussion.

"It (the 39th game) is certainly not dead," said Wyness. "It's going to be discussed again in June at the Premier League summer meeting and that's the next hurdle it has got to cross.

"I think it's something that needs to be explored really fully because there is some very strong potential in it.

"I understand the opposition towards it and the arguments that have been made. But I do think it something that really needs to be looked at.

"We can't rest where we are now as a league. You see other sports trying new things and don't forget you have got the IPL and Twenty20 cricket coming up on the rails.

"They are trying to get cricket started off in America and China now, too. The landscape for sport is going to change dramatically in the next 10 or 15 years and we have got to stay up there."