Players together: A “collective initiative” to help the NHS fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

[davieG]

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/players-together-full-list-premier-21838245

 

Premier League stars have launched a “collective initiative” to help the NHS fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

The initiative, named ‘Players Together’, has been set up by top-flight captains across the country to “help those fighting for us on the NHS frontline”.

It comes after the health secretary, Matt Hancock, urged footballers to “play their part” amid the pandemic last week.

Here is a list of the players who have publicly backed Players Together, with others still expected to come forward.

Arsenal

Granit Xhaka

Hector Bellerin

David Luiz

Gabriel Martinelli

Cedric Soares

Eddie Nketiah

Alex Lacazette

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Lucas Torreira

Pablo Mari

Emile Smith Rowe (on-loan at Huddersfield)

 

Aston Villa

Tyrone Mings

Tom Heaton

Ezri Konsa

John McGinn

Trezeguet

Burnley

Jay Rodriguez

Charlie Taylor

Nick Pope

Chris Wood

Matej Vydra

Erik Pieters

James Tarkowski

Aaron Lennon

Kevin Long

Johann Gudmundson

Ben Gibson

Chris Wood

 

Bournemouth

Steve Cook

Adam Smith

Callum Wilson

Josh King

Dom Solanke

Lewis Cook

Nathan Ake

Harry Wilson

 

Brighton

Glenn Murray

Angus Gunn

Adam Webster

Ezequiel Schlotto

Neal Maupay

Chelsea

Mason Mount

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

Fikayo Tomori

Cesar Azpilicueta

Billy Gilmour

Tammy Abraham

Jorginho

Callum Hudson-Odoi

Antonio Rudiger

Dujon Sterling (on-loan at Wigan Athletic)

 

Crystal Palace

Andros Townsend

Gary Cahill

Connor Wickham

Cenk Tosun

Martin Kelly

 

Everton

Dominic Calvert-Lewin

Jonas Lossl

Theo Walcott

Lucas Digne

Andre Gomes

Yannick Bolasie

Alex Iwobi

Fabian Delph

Morgan Schneiderlin

 

Leicester

Wes Morgan

Kasper Schmeichel

Jamie Vardy

Wilfried Ndidi

James Maddison

Liverpool

Virgil van Dijk

Fabinho

Trent Alexander-Arnold

Adrian

Andrew Robertson

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

Andy Lonergan

James Milner

Jordan Henderson

Divock Origi

Rhian Brewster

Harvey Elliott

Alisson Becker

Rhian Brewster (on-loan at Swansea)

 

Manchester City

Phil Foden

Ilkay Gundogan

Kevin De Bruyne

Sergio Aguero

Bernardo Silva

Fernandinho

Benjamin Mendy

Aymeric Laporte

David Silva

Leroy Sane

Gabriel Jesus

 

Manchester United

Victor Lindelof

Marcus Rashford

Harry Maguire

Daniel James

Tahith Chong

Odion Ighalo

Newcastle

James Lascelles

Dwight Gayleka

Christian Atsu

Sean Longstaff

Joelinton

Martin Dubravka

DeAndre Yedlin

Federico Fernandez

Karl Darlow

Nabil Bentaleb

Paul Dummet

Florian Lejeune

 

Norwich

Tim Krul

Michael McGovern

 

Sheffield United

Oli McBurnie

Billy Sharp

Dean Henderson

John Egan

Phil Jagielka

Kieron Freeman

Enda Stevens

Ben Osborn

 

Southampton

Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg

Oriol Romeu

Nathan Redmond

Che Adams

Kyle Walker-Peters

Tottenham

Harry Kane

Toby Alderweireld

Michel Vorm

Steven Bergwijn

Kyle Walker-Peters

Giovanni Lo-Celso

Dele Alli

Jan Vertonghen

Moussa Sissoko

Harry Winks

 

Watford

Christian Kabasele

Troy Deeney

Daniel Bachmann

Tom Cleverley

Will Hughes

Gerard Deulofeu

 

West Ham

Declan Rice

Jarrod Bowen

Mark Noble

Felipe Anderson

Albian Ajeti

Pablo Zabaleta

Arthur Masuaku

Ryan Fredericks

Issa Diop

Aaron Cresswell

David Martin

 

Wolves

Morgan Gibbs-White

Ruben Neves

Matt Doherty

Rui Patricio

Will Norris

Leaoardo Campana

Diogo Jota

Max Killman

Bruno Jordao

Pedro Neto

Other

Asmir Begovic

David Meyler

Gary Neville

Gary Lineker

Bryan Gunn

Eniola Aluko

Sean Raggett

Trevor Sinclair

[brucey]

I presume not all players are signed up to this?

From a quick scroll through instagram we have at least 6 other players who posted the graphic but are not listed above.

[davieG]

1 minute ago, brucey said:

I presume not all players are signed up to this?

From a quick scroll through instagram we have at least 6 other players who posted the graphic but are not listed above.

Aye I doubt it's a comprehensive list just posted for discussion really thought after the 'Immoral Clubs' thread a bit of positivity deserved some recognition.

[Hales]

Dennis Praet, Harvey Barnes, Ben Chilwell, Ricardo too...

[fox_up_north]

It does look like some of the older players have seen the wood for the trees and recognised the owners of their clubs might not be averse to just cutting their pay and keeping the money.

 

Good to see they've tried to ensure the money goes where it's needed.

 

Though it still rankles me some of the wages the big clubs throw out. I know they're paying 50% tax (if they are) but there's enough money in the league to really sort out problems in this country. A player on 20k a week could spare money for 4 junior PCs and still take home £450k a year in basic salary. 

 

This virus has just really highlighted the issue for me. Don't get me wrong it's great that they're doing this and there's hundreds of big city canary wharf boys earning more but I can't help but feel my enjoyment of the game is tainted - certainly at the top couple of levels. 

[Super_horns]

I guess it's a case of grand gesture and well played to those who came up with the idea but others might say is this done too late to try and regain some good PR after a week of negative press - not helped by Mr Hancock and Taylor ?

 

 

[urban fox]

nice to see that some of the foreign players are getting involved when their own countries of origin will no doubt have similar, and in some cases worse, situations back home.

Also this surely is the best way. Charitable contributions are tax deductable (or hopefully it is set up for gift aid- a scheme where the charity can claim the tax credit from HMRC) but HMRC still get the tax take from the the full wages which would be reduced significantly if there was an enforced pay cut.

[Ashley]

1 hour ago, Super_horns said:

I guess it's a case of grand gesture and well played to those who came up with the idea but others might say is this done too late to try and regain some good PR after a week of negative press - not helped by Mr Hancock and Taylor ?

 

 

Realistically I couldn't give a shit what others think. Footballers have been scapegoats here. 

 

Why should the Footballers especially of Premier League clubs take paycuts to fund other staff? The actual clubs themselves make enough to fund staff and pay them through this. Also if players did take a paycut think of the tax/national insurance contributions that would be lost. 

 

Why havent bankers, multi millionaires or billionaires been targeted? As I said Footballers are a scapegoat. 

 

Why isnt the NHS funded more so it would never have come to this? I do feel for the "smaller clubs" in the lower Leagues though. 

[AKCJ]

21 minutes ago, Ashley said:

Realistically I couldn't give a shit what others think. Footballers have been scapegoats here. 

 

Why should the Footballers especially of Premier League clubs take paycuts to fund other staff? The actual clubs themselves make enough to fund staff and pay them through this. Also if players did take a paycut think of the tax/national insurance contributions that would be lost. 

 

Why havent bankers, multi millionaires or billionaires been targeted? As I said Footballers are a scapegoat. 

 

Why isnt the NHS funded more so it would never have come to this? I do feel for the "smaller clubs" in the lower Leagues though. 

I think you've got it in your head that now that foootballers have donated that thats it, that others shouldn't bother. Football clubs should be helping out as well as footballers. Bankers, multi-millionaires and billionaires absolutely have been targeted. Look on social media, it's all that people are talking about.

 

Footballers absolutely should be expected to play their part in all of this. Football clubs are the centre of their communities. Footballers absolutely should be helping out in times of serious crisis like this. It's not like they're paid pittance, they can afford to take a cut like this.

[Ashley]

34 minutes ago, AKCJ said:

I think you've got it in your head that now that foootballers have donated that thats it, that others shouldn't bother. Football clubs should be helping out as well as footballers. Bankers, multi-millionaires and billionaires absolutely have been targeted. Look on social media, it's all that people are talking about.

 

Footballers absolutely should be expected to play their part in all of this. Football clubs are the centre of their communities. Footballers absolutely should be helping out in times of serious crisis like this. It's not like they're paid pittance, they can afford to take a cut like this.

This couldn't be further from the truth. 

 

MPs have been given another 10k each to work from home too havent they? Why couldn't that go into more funding? Do they really need the extra 10k to WFH? 

 

What the footballers have done is a brilliant gesture but they've been made scapegoats in this.

[LinekersLugs]

5 players from LCFC ??? 
 

Is that correct ??? 
 

 

[Super_horns]

I agree Hancock could have said all high earning people but he was asked particularly about footballers it seems.

 

Do think though the PFA and some clubs haven't come out of this well.

[Hales]

6 minutes ago, LinekersLugs said:

5 players from LCFC ??? 
 

Is that correct ??? 
 

 

Some were not on his list - Dennis Praet, Ben Chilwell, Harvey Barnes and Ricardo P

[Fox92]

2 hours ago, Ashley said:

Realistically I couldn't give a shit what others think. Footballers have been scapegoats here. 

 

Why should the Footballers especially of Premier League clubs take paycuts to fund other staff? The actual clubs themselves make enough to fund staff and pay them through this. Also if players did take a paycut think of the tax/national insurance contributions that would be lost. 

 

Why havent bankers, multi millionaires or billionaires been targeted? As I said Footballers are a scapegoat. 

 

Why isnt the NHS funded more so it would never have come to this? I do feel for the "smaller clubs" in the lower Leagues though. 

They can't stand working class footballers being rich. They won't call out Branson or Rees-Moog because it's all one fvcking circle of mates. At least footballers pay their tax.

 

The NHS has been underfunded or run incorrectly for the past decade, it should never have come to a point where they ask footballers to donate money.

[Ian Norman Droid]

You know, the money involved in football is obscene. Totally and utterly obscene. But the players are just young lads being offered ridiculous money to play a game we'd all love to have played professionally. There's a lot of charitable work that goes on and they should be applauded for this.

[Stinkenzo]

A reminder never to be too financially successful otherwise you'll be told how and where to spend your hard earned money. Maybe i'm just a shit person, it's not a footballers repsonsibility to help the NHS or whoever. And even if it was, there's a lot of money involved in golf these days, where is the pressure on the elite golfers? It's more than just golfers and sportspeople aswell obviously.

 

By all means help out if you want to but the hounding of footballers inparticular is pathetic

[fuchsntf]

7 hours ago, Ashley said:

Realistically I couldn't give a shit what others think. Footballers have been scapegoats here. 

 

Why should the Footballers especially of Premier League clubs take paycuts to fund other staff? The actual clubs themselves make enough to fund staff and pay them through this. Also if players did take a paycut think of the tax/national insurance contributions that would be lost. 

 

Why havent bankers, multi millionaires or billionaires been targeted? As I said Footballers are a scapegoat. 

 

Why isnt the NHS funded more so it would never have come to this? I do feel for the "smaller clubs" in the lower Leagues though. 

A Good question,that should be put to Hancock & put to the Media..why!! ?.

Now & later..

[NaijaFox]

22 hours ago, Ian Norman Droid said:

You know, the money involved in football is obscene. Totally and utterly obscene. But the players are just young lads being offered ridiculous money to play a game we'd all love to have played professionally. There's a lot of charitable work that goes on and they should be applauded for this.

It is indeed obscene, but it’s a very short professional life. Furthermore, it’s only a relatively small elite who make ‘obscene’ dish. Think of the millions who never make it big.