Footballers voluntary wage cut?

[panoma1]

I see footballers in the top flight are being pressurised, by amongst others MP’s to take a wage cut due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic crisis....does anyone know if MP’s have or are going to, take a wage cut?

[TIGHTCHOKE]

I would like to see both Footballers and MPs and other over paid individuals living on a lot less!

[oldypigeonpopper]

hello, all the football clubs in the top divisions could cut the players wages and help make up the support staff loosing out of the salaries, i read 1 club had 500 staff ?????, one footballer on £3,000 a week !!!!!, 

[Scully]

Wasn't Newcastle United one of the clubs still paying their footballers their full salaries, but had sought, at the tax payers expense, to have their ground staff etc paid the 85% of wages made up via the government scheme? 

[Walker570]

Certainly the footballers could live off the fat for a bit, surely on £3000 a week they have sufficient savings....errrr??? hang on how much does an Aston Martin cost to run along with the top of range Range Rover ?

As far as the workers, those who maintain the pitches buildings etc etc., then in my view they are deserving of the Furlough arrangement which allows full payment but 85% to be paid by Government funds

[TIGHTCHOKE]

1 minute ago, Walker570 said:

Certainly the footballers could live off the fat for a bit, surely on £3000 a week they have sufficient savings....errrr??? hang on how much does an Aston Martin cost to run along with the top of range Range Rover ?

As far as the workers, those who maintain the pitches buildings etc etc., then in my view they are deserving of the Furlough arrangement which allows full payment but 85% to be paid by Government funds

Not much when you can't go anywhere!

[PPP]

16 minutes ago, Scully said:

Wasn't Newcastle United one of the clubs still paying their footballers their full salaries, but had sought, at the tax payers expense, to have their ground staff etc paid the 85% of wages made up via the government scheme? 

Spurs, not helping the stereotype...

[panoma1]

£3000 a week  .........Kevin de Bruyne get £308, 000 plus per week at Man City! Lol!......more than £16 million per year!

Edited April 3, 2020 by panoma1

[spurs 14]

6 minutes ago, Walker570 said:

Certainly the footballers could live off the fat for a bit, surely on £3000 a week they have sufficient savings....errrr??? hang on how much does an Aston Martin cost to run along with the top of range Range Rover ?

As far as the workers, those who maintain the pitches buildings etc etc., then in my view they are deserving of the Furlough arrangement which allows full payment but 85% to be paid by Government funds

Don’t know where that wage came from but apparently the average weekly wage of a premiership player is £70,000 a week ! I know disgusting isn’t it and with all the agents and conditions they are on that if they play or are injured ! 

 Same as Richard Branson asking the government for millions to subsidise his airline because it’s not flying ? His personal wealth is thought to be 3.2 billion and yet he has told all his staff they are to be on eight weeks off with no pay !!! You’re not telling me he can’t afford to pay them out of his own pocket !!! 

It’s  the small one man band and local firms that need government help not these huge multi million pound company’s with millions in assets 

[AVB]

17 minutes ago, PPP said:

Spurs, not helping the stereotype...

I am a Spurs fan and disgusted at the approach they have taken. 

[spurs 14]

2 minutes ago, AVB said:

I am a Spurs fan and disgusted at the approach they have taken. 

What’s the score with this .? 

[AVB]

1 minute ago, spurs 14 said:

What’s the score with this .? 

Levy furloughed the backroom staff (which means the taxpayer picks up 80% of their wages). Players still on full pay. 

[Mice!]

It's the idea these top flight clubs need government assistance to pay non playing employees,  you would think the premier league teams could manage quite easily,  they could even be helping the areas around them?

[mel b3]

14 minutes ago, spurs 14 said:

Don’t know where that wage came from but apparently the average weekly wage of a premiership player is £70,000 a week ! I know disgusting isn’t it and with all the agents and conditions they are on that if they play or are injured ! 

 Same as Richard Branson asking the government for millions to subsidise his airline because it’s not flying ? His personal wealth is thought to be 3.2 billion and yet he has told all his staff they are to be on eight weeks off with no pay !!! You’re not telling me he can’t afford to pay them out of his own pocket !!! 

 

these people really make me want to xxxxxxx puke , people are losing their ,  lives , homes and livelihoods , and xxxxxxxx like branson are looking to rinse the system for all he can . he should be stood against a wall and shot !. i hope to god that people remember these vultures when its all over .

[SneakyD]

Seems a bit stupid for mps to calling for this, less wages means less tax and nic.

1 minute ago, mel b3 said:

these people really make me want to xxxxxxx puke , people are losing their ,  lives , homes and livelihoods , and xxxxxxxx like branson are looking to rinse the system for all he can . he should be stood against a wall and shot !. i hope to god that people remember these vultures when its all over .

I am not a particular fan of Richard Branson, but asking for a bailout to try to save a business that employs thousands of people is no reason to call for him to be murdered 

[clangerman]

shame on ANYONE taking that sort of money in times like this just shows their total lack of morals 

[JohnfromUK]

8 minutes ago, AVB said:

Levy furloughed the backroom staff (which means the taxpayer picks up 80% of their wages). Players still on full pay.

Which is downright wrong.

1 hour ago, panoma1 said:

I see footballers in the top flight are being pressurised, by amongst others MP’s to take a wage cut due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic crisis....does anyone know if MP’s have or are going to, take a wage cut?

To be fair, a number of footballers are on double what an MP earns a year - every week!  MPs are well rewarded and far from 'poor' (and I am on record in these forums as attacking MPs inflation busting rises and excessive expenses), but on nothing like the better paid professional footballers, some of whom take home more a week that even the top ministers get in a year.

[spurs 14]

9 minutes ago, AVB said:

Levy furloughed the backroom staff (which means the taxpayer picks up 80% of their wages). Players still on full pay. 

Dirty ! But then levy would ! And probably all the back room staff wouldn’t amount to two players wages ! 

 Wouldn’t kill these premiership players if between them they covered the staff wages for a few weeks ! Each club has twenty odd first team players probably ten % of their wages would do it ! 

[SneakyD]

4 minutes ago, spurs 14 said:

Dirty ! But then levy would ! And probably all the back room staff wouldn’t amount to two players wages ! 

 Wouldn’t kill these premiership players if between them they covered the staff wages for a few weeks ! Each club has twenty odd first team players probably ten % of their wages would do it ! 

That is a better solution 👍

[mel b3]

8 minutes ago, SneakyD said:

Seems a bit stupid for mps to calling for this, less wages means less tax and nic.

I am not a particular fan of Richard Branson, but asking for a bailout to try to save a business that employs thousands of people is no reason to call for him to be murdered 

oh yes , my mistake , hes scrounging the money for the good of his employees that hes layed off with no pay !. and i didnt call for him to be murdered , he should be executed as a traitor to his country in a time of national emergency .

[toontastic]

In Spain the footballers have taken a 70% pay cut and also agreed to pick up the wage bill for non playing staff.

 

[Lloyd90]

I can semi see the argument of the footballers ... they are saying (apparently) ... why should they not be paid or have their pay reduced, for clubs who hold hundreds of millions in reserves? 

The fact that their wages are obscene aside. 

They said that if they do this, all it means is that the club owners / share holders, have a hugely reduced wage bill, and they can take more out of the ‘company’ (club) into their own personal pockets. 
 

I don’t know if their argument is right ... I guess it will be very different club from club depending on how each club is owned and who gets the money? 
 

But for clubs to furlough non-playing staff so that the government pays 80% of their wages, when they have immense wealth in the bank and are very easily able to pay wages is disgusting. 
 

As is Brandson doing the same. It’s Big businesses taking advantage of the government help. They should be told to pay their staff if able! 
 

 

2 minutes ago, toontastic said:

In Spain the footballers have taken a 70% pay cut and also agreed to pick up the wage bill for non playing staff.

 

Fair play. 
 

 

[Mice!]

21 minutes ago, toontastic said:

In Spain the footballers have taken a 70% pay cut and also agreed to pick up the wage bill for non playing staff.

 

I had heard the big clubs had done something and fair pay to them, their on crazy money so it won't harm them helping out, but it will do them a world of good when they get to play again. 

[12gauge82]

I think this crisis shows how wrong the system we all follow is. Most of the very rich will stop at nothing to exploit any situation to make even more money, despite watching the masses around them struggle to make ends meet. If anything at all good comes from this situation, I sincerely hope it's a fairer system for particularly the working classes who have been overlooked for years, if not since the dawn of time.

[TRINITY]

I am far from being a socialist but if there was ever a reason I would change it is seeing what these obscenely overpaid individuals earn. As for Branson and his Ilk you could argue that at least they do create something and provide jobs. Footballers create absolutely nothing .

One other point I saw that scum bag Ronaldo, had just bought himself a special edition Bugatti about £12m the other day . Yet his country is struggling with this virus 

One final point ,I totally refuse to deal with any company that sponsors football. Barclays bank for instance obscenely fills the pockets of these people and normal working class muggins have to pay for this.