Matt Hancock Ask Footballers To Take A Cut in Wages.

[MsPepperPotts]

So basically all non playing staff have been furloughed because they are not key workers
Football Players still getting paid massive salaries
Matt Hancock has asked them to take a pay cut
Gary Lineker has donated a couple of months of his BBC salary(paid by us) to the British Red Cross and will get more back in tax than the average NHS worker could make in 5years.
Apologies for link to DM but it does give the full story

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8183453/Gary-Lineker-blasts-Matt-Hancock-demand-footballers-rush-coronavirus-pay-cuts.html

What is your AIBU - what do the votes mean?

Tbh I think the clubs should take responsibility and pay the players. hopefully this will be the end to these unneeded salary’s

Did not realise voting had been enabled

What paycut has he taken?

Footballers get paid far too much. Some of them on £70,000 A WEEK! That is disgusting when nurses and other vital workers are on so little.

What an unfair world we live in

Neville and linekar amongst others are self absorbed selfish condescending £&@?!

There are hundreds of multi millionaires in this country - hedge fund managers, bankers, company owners - why are we calling out footballers alone?

I think there's a class thing going on here. Nobody is asking hedge fund managers or CEOs of multinationals to take a pay cut. Just footballers, who are working class and obviously paid far above their station.

Virgin is being bailed out from underneath a multi-billionaire - has nobody asked that prick Branson to sell his island? Thought not.

I’m not a football fan and yes some footballers get paid a lot (for short careers which could end in injury at any time) but why are they being singled out to donate wages? Why should the mainly working class rich guys be handing over their money? Are the rich upper classes expected to also handover their money to furloughed workers? Is the Queen going to sell some of her paintings and distribute the proceeds? Bet not. It should be the clubs paying the staff wages.

I would not like to be shamed into handing over my wages at all. If my company decided to furlough the caterers and cleaners and then I was shamed for not giving them my wages I’d tell the shamers to fuck off.

The Health Secretary should have better things to do than play to the Daily Mail gallery. What next, all those in work being told to give half their wages to those not in work whilst companies sit back and take taxpayers money?

£70k a week is at the low end of pay, most are between 100-200k a week.
A lot donate privately anyway a few donate publicly.
But you can't single out a specific group and shame them for not doing more when you don't know what goes on behind the scenes.
I know 2 footballers very well and both have donated huge amounts over the past few weeks. They stayed anonymous and I've heard about a lot more doing the same, although can't confirm this as I don't know the individuals.

@Tellmetruth4 I don’t understand why footballers are being singled out either. It just seems petty for a minister to pick out premiership footballers and make them taking a pay cut part of a government briefing.

Manchester United have donated 30% of their salaries totalling £3.5 million to their local NHS trust. I’m pretty sure others will now follow.

There are hundreds of multi millionaires in this country - hedge fund managers, bankers, company owners - why are we calling out footballers alone?

To be fair - the hedge fund manager, the bankers and the company owners that I know are still working.

Virgin is being bailed out from underneath a multi-billionaire - has nobody asked that prick Branson to sell his island? Thought not

I suggested it on this or some other forum, but I doubt if he takes any notice of me!

This sleazebag can get to fuck as well

www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/02/philip-green-asks-for-taxpayer-support-to-prop-up-arcadia

In fairness footballer Gary Neville has made his hotels available to NHS staff that need to stay close to work and isolate from family members, he has put his money where his mouth is.

www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020/0319/1124045-neville-makes-hotels-available-to-help-medical-staff/

All staff at my team are being paid as normal. No furloughs, even the club shop staff and the cleaners are getting their full wage. The players have still given 40k to the local foodbanks, those from poorer countries have sent huge sums back home and our manager is part of Common Goal. So I really don't think they deserve criticism. Also, props to Leeds Utd, whose players and manager have already docked their own pay.

The Chairman and CEO of Santander have both donated 50% of their pay to a CV charity.

There was a rugby player on 5live this week (can’t remember his name). He was saying that they (sportsmen) are an exception and that £2500 a month wouldn’t even touch his mortgage. His argument was because they have a relatively short career they deserve to keep their wage. I was pretty horrified by the way he came across, no empathy for those less fortunate and no mention that he should have saved for a rainy day in his situation. Maybe he had been hit in the head too many times with a ball, can’t think of another reason for being such a brain dead cunt.

In fact, here's an article outlining what all 20 PL clubs are currently doing:

www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/02/pay-cuts-furlough-or-deferrals-what-are-the-premier-league-clubs-doing

It's a few bad apples, that's all. If Mr Hancock (silent 'Han') wishes to apportion blame, he ought to look closer to home.

Even a 10% cut would enable many premier league and large clubs to pay their overheads and staff, with no recourse to government funds. Middle and smaller clubs may struggle regardless.

Populism.
Called for by the wanker party that cheered when pay increases for nurses and firefighters were voted against.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/public-sector-pay-cap-all-mps-vote-against-list-austerity-freeze-labour-jeremy-corbyn-conservatives-a7813706.html I have noticed a few posts here and have a few family members who are being asked to take a pay cut. Not MPs though.

They shouldn't need to be asked.

Although I'd say keep in mind that their high incomes may be matched by high expenses that they can't just turn off like a tap. A big house and a flash car might seem frivolous but the mortgage and loan repayments pay the salaries of the workers at the bank. And top footballers are paid a lot but for the young ones, they don't have the maturity to prudently save when they're thrown into a culture of splashing the cash, and they haven't had much time to make big savings either.

I agree it’s ridiculous to single out footballers. Maybe politicians should donate their wages too? Or from their trust funds?

Is it not more the fact that clubs are still paying the big wages to the players, whilst furloughing non-players. I thought the furlough plan was to stop people being sacked because companies couldn’t afford to pay them whilst they cannot work, but I may be wrong on this. I think the issue may be that the club is saying they can’t afford to pay the non-players whilst paying the players such eye-watering amounts.

I’m not saying I agree with this, but this may be some of the concern.

The top 100 leaders at my global organisation have all accepted a 20% pay cut, so yes, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask footballers, who are not working and whose industry is currently not pulling in the funds for those large salaries, to take a pay cut to allow the rest of the staff not to be broke. And many business leaders may indeed be taking pay cuts, or already have done - most won't be publicised.