Aston Villa chief executive Christian Purslow has been telling BBC Radio 4 that more should be done to close the financial gap between the Premier League and EFL, a situation made even more extreme by the coronavrius pandemic.

"I think the COVID-19 crisis has shone a light on the very significant differences that exists between the pinnacle of English football, the Premier League. And what goes on further down the pyramid," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"These financial issues were there before the COVID-19 crisis. Nobody would have designed a system where the team finishing at the bottom of the Premier League would be earning in the hundreds of millions for television money, and the team finishing at the top of the league below would be earning less than five. That is such an enormous gap, surely there's a better way. And I think that cliff edge that has really made life very difficult between those two divisions, I think will be addressed strategically in the coming weeks and months.

"I think there just needs to be a much higher level of coordination between the management of the two leagues. The EFL, as a whole, is not properly valued by the global media industry and that's the issue that needs to be addressed.

"It's about growing the revenues in Championship football, and League One and League Two football, and I think the Premier League could be very helpful in that regard."