Footballers to ask the taxpayer to pay 80% of their wages

poor darlings.. They can't manage on last week's pay? such a shame!!!

This could all come to a head if the season isnt finished by the deadline in the football league's contracts with Sky, BT etc. Mid July, I think.

Most of the Premier league clubs are continuing to pay 100% of the wages of all their backroom staff.
It's only a few who are not or who haven't disclosed what they will be doing.
Tottenham should be ashamed of their stance.

I live less than 2 miles from Millionaires Row in Cheshire, where all of the houses cost in excess of £2,000,000 and 95% of those are owned by a world famous football club's players. All of them are huge with indoor swimming pools, leisure suites and state of the art security systems. They have wealth that the majority of us could never imagine. If just 1% of that wealth was given to support their club's ancillary staff, the taxpayer's money wouldn't be needed. It's a different world out there.

www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8177615/Pay-cut-stand-Agents-PFA-advise-stars-against-wages-sacrifice.html

One or two have volunteered a slight wage cut but they are being strongly advised against . Of course they are.

I hope when all this is over the fans of these hugely rich clubs see them all for what they are and they go back to supporting small local teams where you see real football .

Let the footballers pay the other employees wage however much it may be. I am talking about the big clubs not smaller ones. They all have big cars and big flash houses none of them are short of money. Anyone remember the massive birthday bash that David Beckham gave for his son a little while ago, I could never have afforded something like that in a million years. I used to take my son to some of the big games helped with costs by my mum and dad.

I think there are a limited number of footballers who earn the big bucks. Hopefully they will give some of this to support ancillary staff etc. Seems like a bit of a headline grabber.

talksport.com/football/646948/average-first-team-2019-salary-every-premier-league-club/

This table speaks for itself really . And don’t forget the figures quoted are per player not the entire team ! Shocking . This is no longer sport it’s a case of the richest teams win.

It is iniquitous that ground staff, and other”back room” employees should suffer in order to “save the clubs” if players are to continue on their obscene salaries. They should go on UC like others. With their earnings they must have a more than adequate “cushion” of savings and investments ???

I was thinking exactly the same thing TwiceAsNice. Most of the highest profile players are on £100,000 s a week, how much are the cleaners earning a year?! It's an absolute disgrace to put it mildly and I'm a football fan!

Most of the money coming into the big clubs is via advertising and sponsorships . Many of them don’t even need the gate money . I do have a little bit of sympathy for the smaller clubs though who do rely on money taken at the gate /season tickets.

How about the vastly overpaid, very entitled footballers paying for the other staff out of their salaries. They can well afford it, struggling tax payers cannot.

So there’s money in the club’s coffers to pay the humongous salaries of the players but not the other employees?

I can think of one way they could avoid furloughing those staff...

Yeah just about spot on eazybee shameless.

I’m sure it will PamelaJ1 as so many are refusing to renew their season tickets and many more are not able to pay for them. My dad has held a season ticket for his club for almost 50 years and he said he would not renew as he was disgusted at how those who have asked for a payment holiday (many fans pay over the year by direct debit) have been treat .

Have I got this right: the taxpayer supports the backroom boys so the footballers can keep their salaries? Rather like Virgin airlines from where I am standing.

There will always be some who behave as they should thank goodness.
Unfortunately the business of football is a million miles away from sportsmanlike behaviour. I hope this attitude comes back to bite them on the bottom.

This is for employees of the clubs, admin staff, cleaners, caterers etc.

Many of the high profile players have already said they will not take salaries whilst they are not playing and have donated to local food banks and charities.

That was how I understood it too Daisymae . The clubs (Newcastle is one of them and I believe Tottenham) are going to “furlough” their back room staff, grounds people, admin , training etc. In order to continue to pay their players in full. A few of the highest paid players have offered to take a slight pay cut...bless their hearts.

No, that's not the story. Clubs are asking the taxpayer to pay 80 percent of the other employees salary under the government scheme while the clubs continue to pay the footballers salary.

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If they had a 50% pay cut, they would hardly be living in poverty!

I do hope-probably in vain-that this will make us reassess priorities and pay accordingly! So carers, all medics, pharmacists, police, teachers, prison officials etc get the lions share and, I’m afraid, folk who kick balls about for a living back to minimum wage-as gifted players like Stanley Matthews were not far off!

Surely not? Speechless!

The limit per month is £2500. I wouldn't mind that.