With sport still at a standstill, Leeds United Chief Executive Angus Kinnear was invited onto Sky's Football Show to discuss how the club is working its way through the current enviroment.

Chatting to Kelly Cates and Gary Neville, Angus answered questions ranging from the decision to name a stand after Norman Hunter to the work being done by clubs and leagues to return to play. Read his answers below.

The club has recently paid tribute to Norman Hunter by naming a stand after him, which seems fitting at a place where he made so many people happy?

"Absolutely. This crisis took a real person toll on all of us with the passing of Norman. Not only was a true great for Leeds United and a true great of the game, but he was also a friend and colleague of everyone at the club. He was still at Elland Road on a weekly basis, he came to every game, still passionate about Leeds United, and always had time for staff and players, giving his advice and perspective. So the least we could do was name a stand after him, and he's in great company with the other stands named after Don Revie and John Charles, which just shows the level of esteem everyone at Leeds holds him in."

It's a difficult position to be in when you're top of the league, trying to think about what's best for the team, and thinking about the health of staff supporters. How have you tried to navigate the current climate?

"Our primary objective throughout this has been the health and safety of our players and staff. That's been at the forefront of our minds and of our actions. We then look to try and focus on the financial continuity of the business and keeping everyone in employment. We have 200 full time staff and 2,000 part time staff, so that's been very important. Then the third thing has been trying to focus on finding a safe way to return to play. The priority has to be that it is safe to do so, it has to be safe for the players, but we think it is the right thing to do in the long-term.  When the time is right to return, the first thing we do is finish the business of last season, maintain the integrity of  the league. I think it's not just everyone saying we have a vested interest in saying that, but we actually think across the Championship, the desire is to finish what we have started."

How difficult could that be practically if we go past the June 30th deadline?

"The longer it goes on, the more difficult it gets from a contractual perspective. What I have been really encouraged by is the collegiate way that all of football is trying to work together to solve these issues. We've already had discussions with players that we have on loan, their clubs, the EFL and ultimately with UEFA as we have some international loans. We think there is a collective intent to find solutions and I don't think it's beyond the wit of man that if we work together we can find those solutions to complete the season, even if it goes beyond June 30th.

You're one of the few clubs that has managed to agree a wage deferral with your players. How has that helped in real terms? 

"The players were wonderful in stepping forward. It was a very easy discussion to have, they understood that what they could do, could really help the club, and that it could safe guard the jobs of those at the club. It doesn't solve the issue, it defers it, but what we ultimately need is a return to football, a return to our revenue streams coming back alive, and then solve our commitment to paying the players back over the medium term."

Marcelo is Leeds United manager and it's been fascinating to watch him. Can you tell us a bit more about the process of bringing him to the club?

"It was really the brainchild of our Director of Football, Victor Orta, who was asked by our owner, Andrea Radrizzani, if he could appoint in the world, who would it be. When he said the name, I have to say I sort of smiled to myself, but our owner certainly doesn't lack ambition, and when we went to Buenos Aires to speak to Marcelo, I thought we'd have to do a really big sell in terms of the potential, the project, what Leeds United could become and the part he could play. In fact, he'd done his research and was already committed to the cause, so we actually spent the 24 hours in Buenos Aires just talking about the players, the systems and how he wanted to play. I left knowing he was going to be the manager of Leeds United, but not actually with the contract that I went over with to get signed."

As a club how do you create a structure that fits around him, rather than have a club structure that he fits into?

"Well I started my football career at Arsenal under Arsene Wenger, who had a philosophy that touched every part of the club, and Marcelo has been the same. He's not just a coach,  he's an amazing coach and he's brought a group of players who finished mid-table the season before he joined, and it's effectively the same group of players that are now top of the league. His influence has extended across the club as a whole, he has set new standards, a new philosophy."

How many of your players do you have out of contract on June 30th? You're looking as though you're one of the best prepared clubs to continue into July or August if the season continues.

"We have one player out of contact, and our loan players that we're looking to extend. We're in a good place, we tied a lot of our players down to long contracts across the last couple of years, so we appreciate the challenges that other clubs will face,  but Leeds United are in a good position."

How does the Championship deliver the testing programme that is being talked about at Premier League level and be able to deal with clubs that don't want to continue paying players beyond July?

"The Championship, the EFL and Premier League are working hard in tandem, benchmarking the strategies of leagues across Europe, and in terms of how they intend to return to play. I know they want to put a testing programme in place, I don't think it has been costed yet, but they feel confident that is something they can deliver. Then I think we're going to have to rely on the commitment of all the clubs to try and do the right thing, which is to finish the league. I have to say, collectively, certainly in the Championship, there's a real belief that's the right thing to do. I'm hoping that in these exceptional circumstances that clubs and leagues will take exceptional measures to put football first."

Is it fair to say that as a football club, you are banking on finishing the season and Leeds go up, or the points per game (PPG) methodology which would also see Leeds go up?

"This year we made a big investment after narrowly missing out in the play-offs last year, when we thought we should have gone up, and in a position to go up. So this year, and the investment, has been geared to getting promoted, up to the point where when the season ended, we were delivering that on the pitch. All our financial projections and assumptions are based around a return to the Premier League. But we also have contingency plans, and if that wasn't to happen because we failed in the last nine games, then we are robust to weather that in the medium term. Clearly finishing the league is our main objective, but only when it is safe to do so."