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

Yes footballers are overpaid and yes many are prima donnas but it not the footballers who are deciding to take money from the government (taxpayers) it is the clubs. It is the owners, the chairmen and the shareholders doing this. It is disgraceful. Not all the so called big clubs are doing it and I was glad to see that Liverpool, who were going to do it, backed down. Frankly they shouldn't have even considered it in the first place. The club I support came out with a statement virtually immediately that they are not going to do it and they haven't. The European footballing body "imposed" a 30% cut in wages for all players in the top tier of every European club (including the premier league). Not nearly enough but something. The players playing for the club I support have decided to reduce their own wages by 80% and are donating it to various charities and the frontline.
quizqueen your suggestion -Thursday 2nd April 12:44:57 has been taken up by some clubs.
I am by no means defending actions taken by clubs but it's not the players (by and large) making the decisions. There have been some players who have moaned and a few who resent the cut in their pay. Those players are a disgrace, they shame themselves, they shame their clubs, they shame their fans and they insult us all.

Well, I think this is one issue that we can all agree! As if they aren't grossly over paid in normal times, but to expect the government to pick up the bill for laid off staff, while collecting vast sums for doing nothing is a complete disgrace. People are putting their lives on the line for peanuts by comparison! These prima Donnas and their handlers should be absolutely ashamed of themselves!

Don't tell your DGS!!!

But EllanVannin has shoved them all where the sun don't shine!

oops, is that rude?

Brilliant Calli my DGS would be well impressed

Yes, and I know where I'd shove the carrots as well Callistemon

gillybob can you imagine?

'These carrots were picked and packed with love especially for you by [insert name of a top player] who soiled his hands on your behalf"

If this shameful behaviour by Premier Leaugue footballers, club owners and agents wipes the veil from the average football fans eyes so that they see what overpaid overprivileged people these young men are. It will be no bad thing.

Excellent idea quiz

Maybe each footballer could 'adopt' a back room worker at their club and pay their wages in full to relieve the strain on the taxpayer if they are getting their wags paid in full.

Yes Smileless2012 and it`s F OFF.

Smileless2012, best response ever.

22 bags of wind kicking a bag of wind around.
And spot on Hettie58.

Can we give the footballers a response of just 2 words?

That’s shocking paddyanne - why wasn’t he furloughed, I wonder? Was he a direct employee or a contractor/subcontractor?

I just heard that a young friend has been paid off,not furloughed as they call it now.He has been told they will be re empolying people when this is over.However that makes him ineligable for any money from the chancellors "package" .Can we have a shout out for the inhumane treatment of their staff by ROLLS ROYCE ...Having worked with this company on a regular basis over the years my impression was that they treated people well ,or was that just image projection.They have certainly chucked a lot of young families under a bus this week !

I was just saying to DH that I would love to help pick fruit if there was a farm anywhere near here, there isn’t .

His response was “don’t you think you’ve got enough to do?” would much rather pick fruit than grovel to HMRC and queue outside Asda .

Can’t see these golden boys doing it though.

I’m happy for them to get the £2,500 a month maximum like many others. But I also think that they, and other fit unemployed, ought to be volunteering to pick fruit and vegetables which will otherwise rot in the ground, on trees or canes.

Is this an April Fools joke???

Surely they've put some by for a rainy day, massively over paid anyway. Bobby Moore et al didn't get that much when they delivered England's brief moment of glory but what others have said they can off with that one!

The Wolves players are very active in our community. I don’t have much interest but GSs attend various events and have met quite a few players. I am aware that they tend to yo-yo up and down quite a bit. The jubilation in the town (city) was palpable.

They should put all footballers on a basic wage and continue to pay the other staff them selves. It is unacceptable that they should ask for government help. They won't be doing the job they are paid for anyway and others in the entertainment industry are losing all their earnings because gigs are cancelled.

This incensed me too when I heard it on the news last night. Perhaps this crisis will topple the super rich off their perches, and pay the people who really deserve it, properly, so as already mentioned, nurses, police, paramedics, teachers, in fact, anyone who does a responsible and life saving job. I do understand football for example, gives many people pleasure, but £70,000 a week!?! NO, and definitely not now. They should have enough to live on. It wouldn’t be so bad if some of them actually scored a goal now and again!

TwiceAsNice has it spot on

Of course, some players for lower league clubs don't get paid these obscene salaries.
But the multi millionaire players and managers could out their hands in their pockets and help them out too.