berlin the bundesliga could return by the middle or end of may germanys sports ministers have said as the league awaits the goahead from angela merkels government to resume the seasonthe sports ministers of germanys 16 states met monday and announced in a statement that it is justifiable for the league to resume in empty stadiums from the middle or end of maythe german football league must create and enforce the strictest hygienic and medical conditions and monitor them with appropriate measures added the statementgerman chancellor merkel will meet state leaders in berlin on thursday when it is hoped the bundesliga will get the green light to resumeall football in germany ground to a halt in mid march due to the coronavirus pandemiclast week the german football league dfl announced it is ready to resume from may 9 albeit behind closed doors with tight hygiene measures and players tested regularlya return in may would make the bundesliga the first top league in europe to resume as germany cautiously eases lockdown measureskey politicians including health minister jens spahn have backed the leagues return plans which are currently being reviewed by the ministry of labourhowever both newspapers bild and munichbased sueddeutsche zeitung claim may 9 is probably too soon for a restartlast weekend borussia dortmunds ceo hansjoachim watzke warned the entire bundesliga will go down unless the league restartsit will no longer exist in the form we have known it watzke told sky sports news warning that several clubs could go undergermanys top clubs are desperate for the league season to be completed by june 30 in order to claim an instalment of television money worth 300 million euros 325 millionmagazine kicker claims 13 of the 36 clubs in the top two leagues are on the verge of insolvency due to the crisisnevertheless there is heated debate about whether the bundesliga should resume amid the pandemic which has so far claimed just under 6000 lives in germanyannalena baerbock the coleader of the green party says it is deeply unfair for professional football to restart when a child is not even allowed to play on a lonely swing with playgrounds still closedchristian seifert ceo of the german league says such arguments are understandablethe fact that the bundesliga can play again means it is compared to other areas in german society said seifert but what we are doing is not arrogant or presumptuous