Victor Wanyama’s coach Thierry Henry plays waiting game with MLS in limbo

"All we can do on our side is to be focused and prepare to whatever is going to come our way. They are going to take the decision and we are going to have execute whatever they want us to execute.

"But on my side, all I can do is try to keep my team, the staff, prepared to whatever is going to come our way.

Henry admitted however that his work with staff had run into difficulties caused by the absence of fresh video footage.

"I mean, one thing that's weird is usually you tend to watch a game to see if you can learn something from other coaches, which is normal," Henry said.

"Right now, obviously there is no game on TV. You have no game. So usually, with the staff, we watch games and we are like, 'Oh, that's interesting, I would never have thought about whatever thing that you saw'. And you try to implement it.

"But yeah, that's a tricky one, because you're looking at old videos that we kind of went through already with the players individually or as a team."

Henry, however, said he had been encouraged by the progress made within the squad since his arrival. Montreal were second in the Eastern Conference after two games before the league was halted.

"You know, I always mentioned Jürgen Klopp," Henry said. "It took him three and a half years to do what he's doing with Liverpool. It doesn't happen just like that. So we were kind of getting somewhere. It was early stages.

"Guys were starting to understand what we wanted and how we wanted to play and the intensity and the togetherness and the fight that we wanted to put into games in the right way, but then you have to stop."