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Wouldn't be the first time.

 

Premier league players earn obscene amounts of money and the state shouldn’t be giving them a penny. Collectively they should help to pay the wages of non playing staff at the clubs

 

Boris and Hancock earn in a year what most Prem footballers earn in a month. Whats your point?

 

Its a good point - footballers are easy targets in many respects. The context has been skewed though - the original question to Matt Hancock was specifically in the context of non-playing staff being furloughed, not an arbitrary 'footballers should take pay cuts'. Its not right that non-playing staff, who're largely going to be on modest incomes, be furloughed and possibly lose out financially when very, very highly paid football players are exempt from any financial impact. The question has been raised and its unfair to pass judgement until there's a fresh response. I suspect that most players will be prepared to make a sacrifice for the greater good, given the circumstances. But similar questions need to be asked elsewhere. Example - Richard Branson wants a taxpayer bailout of his airline. This is the same fella who, as the major shareholder for that airline, is worth over £4bn, has his own island, does everything he can to offshore his businesses to minimize tax contributions and who's previously SUED the NHS for not being awarded a contract he thought they should've been awarded! That's far more deserving of scrutiny.

 

Oh dear @Fordy117

care to comment, Joshuas fight now be cancelled in June. You sure they were in talks with the government.

 

That can't happen until we have a vaccine, until then this horrible disease can reap havoc around the world again and people will be forever aware of that.

 

What?? Where do you get the content of your first paragraph from?
In my 7 years on the Board and 4 years since I can count on one hand how many owners of L1 & L2 clubs fall in that category and I suspect only half those in the Championship.

 

He’s not arguing anything. He doesn’t take a position. He just makes noise.

 

Those players earn Hancock's annual salary within weeks in some cases.

 

If you don't care how much people have or earn, why are you talking about the owners funding everything when it isn't a legal obligation?

 

Actually, his ideas go much, much further than Hancock's. He seems to view Hancock as an untrustworthy Tory.

If you search up what Mark Noble has also done, he's invested heavily in social housing and is pretty apparently a socialist at heart, criticising the amount of money he and other players are paid, but counterbalancing that by giving lots of his own earnings for charitable purposes.

 

Owners worth billions and can’t pay wages or people probably only on around 500 a month.

 

Largely why I've never been able to take to Liverpool. Fantastic football team, and I think Klopp is top drawer. But there's a sense of 'holier than thou' about them. A self grandiose mentality.

They won't be alone in doing this though. Spurs have done it. And I saw something earlier that Burnley could be into Admin by August if the season doesn't get going by then.

 

Bowing to public pressure. Weak.

 

apparently so, but as they are making the wage up they may be allowed to ask them to do training, not sure.