No one is forcing you to get the wrong end of the stick and not understand that for half a dozen posts.
Quote from Jermaine Jenas "Essentially, if the players take a wage cut, the beneficiaries are the clubs. Their main concern is what is happening to this money. They are happy to put money into a pot, rather than it just vanishing. "They want to have an influence as to where this money is going. Is it going to the NHS, school meals? They want control over that.” He doesn’t get it does he! The clubs are the ones losing money hand over fist. It’s non-playing staff that are being furloughed by premiership clubs, when monies from their bloated wages could secure the roles of those staff who were there long before they came to the club and will be there trying to earn their crust after they have gone. It’s EFL clubs who will be staring starkly at their incomings and outgoings despairingly and wondering how they can survive. Without the clubs they won’t have jobs either. But if any well-paid professional footballer or manager would also like to contribute some of your remaining salary to charities for NHS, school dinners or any other well deserving cause, thank you and we respect your choice (just as we do every other citizen).
Quite. If the £300k a week player stops being paid then half of that is lost from tax revenue in theory and stays in the pocket of the billionaire owner. Better that it goes directly to a charity that can use it more efficiently but just going into the government’s coffers has to be better than Ashley or Levy keeping it. The demonisation of footballers is again lazy just as it is when someone has the brainwave that Raheem Sterling earns the same as 5000 soldiers.
I could be completely wrong but aren’t the Man Utd players donating a large proportion of their wages to charity ? Could just be twitter talk but sure I read it somewhere. NB....Just checked....is reported that players will be donating 30% of their wages to the NHS. 1 month initially but I’d hope it’s longer More free cake for me
