Immoral premier league Clubs

[Nalis]

Its no surprise Mike Ashley (Newcastle) and Daniel Levy (Spurs) were the first two examples of furloughing in the Premier League.

[Spudulike]

Wasn't it announced a few weeks back that Kasper had donated a large sum to a hospital? 

[st albans fox]

I saw that Newcastle have furloughed their recruitment dept.  I guess there’s no football ongoing to review, they know their targets already and Ashley doesn’t see any point in paying people to sit around, especially if he’s actually negotiating a sale of the club.  I couldn’t imagine a premier league club taking liberties with such a crucial part of the club infrastructure......... mad.  Perhaps he’s doing whatever he can to try and accelerate a sale .........

[Hales]

To be fair some of the lcfc players have donated things already - Kasper to age uk, Chilly - items to be auctioned for a childrens bereavement charity and I think Vardy helped with iPads and electronics for the hospital.  I'm sure they will come good with pay too as the club is close knit and I honestly cant believe they wont help. I guess it may just take a little time to sort with some players out of the country. To be fair to them though we dont know personally what they are doing. They may be helping family and friends out financially at the moment?

[LinekersLugs]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

The flip side of his 7m payment is that it came from spurs and the personal tax he is paying on it will  likely more than cover the monies the club are claiming from the HMRC scheme ......... just saying ......

I’m sure he is able to write off millions of it some how, scum like him always do 

[st albans fox]

Just now, LinekersLugs said:

I’m sure he is able to write off millions of it some how, scum like him always do 

It’s v difficult to do that kind of thing nowadays , especially when it’s a very public amount.  

[SecretPro]

Tottenham. Scum. The end. 

[weller54]

4 hours ago, Hales said:

To be fair some of the lcfc players have donated things already - Kasper to age uk, Chilly - items to be auctioned for a childrens bereavement charity and I think Vardy helped with iPads and electronics for the hospital.  I'm sure they will come good with pay too as the club is close knit and I honestly cant believe they wont help. I guess it may just take a little time to sort with some players out of the country. To be fair to them though we dont know personally what they are doing. They may be helping family and friends out financially at the moment?

Player's out of the country?

Really?

[FoyleFox]

PFA are meeting to discuss players taking wage cuts.

 

From Twitter - Have obtained the email PFA sent to its members earlier (see excerpts below)
*”many” clubs have approached players about furloughing &/or wage deferrals
*PFA wants to see clubs’ finances before advising players
*wants squads to collectively discuss with PFA before agreeing https://t.co/Wg0caIu9Ml

[Red Squirrel]

Great idea to divide the players from the rest of the staff. The team is not the 11 on the pitch or the first team squad its the whole club and everyone in it

 

I'd like to think that everyone enjoying enormous wealth in our club will help the ones who don't, but are so integral to their success

 

With the attitude Spurs, Newcastle and Norwich (I'm looking at you Delia - where are you, lets be havin you!) all deserve to be playing in the Evostick in a few years time. I'd be ashamed to be a supporter of this set of rat bags!

[ozleicester]

Why has it taken this to make people realise there is inequity and we as a society should be doing more

[Lambert09]

Bournemouth are also doing this. Talk about forgetting where you've come from 

[Hales]

4 hours ago, weller54 said:

Player's out of the country?

Really?

From their instagram a few have gone home and have been since training stopped - Perez, Fuchs, Cags.........

[LinekersLugs]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/01/premier-league-tells-pfa-players-will-have-to-share-in-financial-pain

[weller54]

11 minutes ago, LinekersLugs said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/01/premier-league-tells-pfa-players-will-have-to-share-in-financial-pain

Pay cuts!!..

They're all multi millionaires.

Stopping their pay completely for 3 months is hardly going to put any of them in financial hardship is it ?

Perhaps one of their many supercars may have to go?

FFS they should be volunteering for this to happen!!

[Foxes1]

4 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

Bournemouth are also doing this. Talk about forgetting where you've come from 

But Eddie Howe has taken a pay cut to help the club out so it's not all that bad at Bournemouth. I think a lot of players are hiding behind that creep Taylor and the PFA. 

[st albans fox]

I think we should lay off Gordon Taylor .....at his stage of life he must be devastated to have lost 25% of his multi million pound pension fund......... I don’t imagine he has much time left to spend thinking about anything else .......

[Spudulike]

As starters they should pick up the wage bill of the non-playing staff. Those players on the highest wage to make the biggest contribution. 

 

Time for Madds to sell his rucksack. 

[Guest foxestalkisfullofidiots]

I suppose it was always going to happen somewhere in the football league, I would imagine a few clubs live hand to mouth but for Tottenham Hotspur to ask the taxpayer to subsidize the wages less than 1 month into the season being suspended, we are talking about a club with a billionaire owner living in the Bahamas to avoid paying tax, a chief executive who received a massive bonus to deliver a stadium 10 months late, a club whoose average wage for the playing is £76'000 aweek and the signed a player for £54 million last summer, one for £24 million in January, the furlong was bought in by the government to protect peoples jobs and it will be needed by many small businesses but this is a joke and nothing short of fraud.

[Wortho]

46 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

I think we should lay off Gordon Taylor .....at his stage of life he must be devastated to have lost 25% of his multi million pound pension fund......... I don’t imagine he has much time left to spend thinking about anything else .......

I would think he will need his pension as he might want to have a little bet.

[mozartfox]

12 hours ago, SecretPro said:

Tottenham. Scum. The end. 

You are not wrong there Poch.

[Hales]

Lots of twitter chat today that lcfc players are going to cover staffing costs if needed 🤷‍♀️ Hopefully that's true! 🤞

[Tommy G]

Not calculated it but if a player is on 100K a week, that is 100 times someone who is on £52K a year, nearly double national average wage, so back of fag packet workings players could take a 1-2.5% paycut to fund non playing staff wages very easily. Even if they were furloughed which is academic they could make up the extra 20%.

 

As much as its morally wrong the government cant exclude certain industries from this as they still operate as a business, albeit an unusual one. A meet in the middle would be to furlough non playing staff and ask the paying staff to make up the 20%. Still a bad taste but better than current situation 

[Monk]

For non playing staff I don't see the issue.

 

How is football different from other profitable industries whose whole market has been essentially closed by the government - hotels, airlines, pubs. That's exactly what the government scheme is there for. Football clubs aren't non eligible for it just because some of their players are on big money.

 

Easyjet are using the scheme, and Stelios is clearly not claiming the money himself.

 

TopShop and Arcadia are using the furlough scheme too, but their highest paid staff (Philip Green etc) will still get paid.

 

I am sure the players will collectively come to an agreement with clubs as it is clearly not sustainable to keep paying that level of money. But it will need to be separate to the govt scheme clearly.

[Hp-Fx94]

14 hours ago, Red Squirrel said:

Great idea to divide the players from the rest of the staff. The team is not the 11 on the pitch or the first team squad its the whole club and everyone in it

 

I'd like to think that everyone enjoying enormous wealth in our club will help the ones who don't, but are so integral to their success

 

With the attitude Spurs, Newcastle and Norwich (I'm looking at you Delia - where are you, lets be havin you!) all deserve to be playing in the Evostick in a few years time. I'd be ashamed to be a supporter of this set of rat bags!

It's funny how it takes something tragic to affect us (the taxpayer) before we discover our morals.

 

Have you ever looked upon the homeless in Leicester and reconciled that against the wages we pay Vardy et al every week?

 

Those clubs are ultimately following the routes available to them, I imagine Norwich, the paupers of this division and who have no external financial input rely heavily on the money they've budgeted for this season actually coming in. 

 

Delia is worth around £22 Million

How many hundreds of times are our owners worth more than that?

 

Sorry to sound harsh but there will be far bigger businesses than these football clubs furloughing lower tiered staff while the elites go unaffected.