Daniel Levy - Chairman

[Glenda's Legs]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245769320715649024

That gets my back up a bit. I don’t think it’s the role of politicians to pick one particular category of earner and tell them to take a pay cut nor tell them to make a contribution nor to pull some kind of crude emotional blackmail by bringing up NHS staff who have died (conveniently overlooking the lack of PPE, testing etc) as if that is anything to do with the players.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

I can’t! Sadly!
Virus was the/our perfect storm!

So we have blown all the cash we had in a month

 

[StephenH]

That gets my back up a bit. I don’t think it’s the role of politicians to pick one particular category of earner and tell them to take a pay cut nor tell them to make a contribution nor to pull some kind of crude emotional blackmail by bringing up NHS staff who have died (conveniently overlooking the lack of PPE, testing etc) as if that is anything to do with the players.

Sadly you are in the minority! It is a PR equivalent of putting the barrel in your mouth and pulling the trigger!

 

[StephenH]

So we have blown all the cash we had in a month

Yep and then some I’m hearing!

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Yep and then some I’m hearing!

Your son?

 

[StephenH]

Your son?

No! Old city collegue!

 

[Bedfordspurs]

No!

I’d be stunned if the club could blow £120 m cash in a month but it’s football

 

[StephenH]

I’d be stunned if the club could blow £120 m cash in a month but it’s football

Very worrying for our club!
And quite a few others! I would expect!

 

[StephenH]

I’d be stunned if the club could blow £120 m cash in a month but it’s football

Players will all take pay cuts tomorrow imho

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Players will all take pay cuts tomorrow imho

Maybe
But If we have no money we can’t pay em

 

[Glenda's Legs]

And as an odd on... someone did some crude some and it’s better in £££ for the players to keep on being paid and thereby paying tax as that revenue is greater than the cost of furloughing the staff to economy
Don’t know if it’s accurate but there is some logic in the numbers

This one?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245804315811418113

 

[Bedfordspurs]

This one?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245804315811418113

Could be it
My issue is with any players pay cut, what happens with the money left over

 

[Glenda's Legs]

Could be it
My issue is with any players pay cut, what happens with the money left over

Left over from....?

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Left over from....?

The pay cuts
If the players take a 20% cut and that’s used for the non playing staff salary it leaves about half
Assume the earner is on £30k a year that’s £1.4m a month ish for 550 people
Or £17m a year
Take that off our wages it leaves around £160m which is roughly £13m a month
So 20% odd that is £2.6m
What happens with the £1.2m over

 

[Finney Is Back]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245769320715649024

I wonder if Matt Hanrooster has taken a pay cut?

 

[Finney Is Back]

This one?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245804315811418113

PL footballers being PAYE?

 

[Jurgen the German]

All rich people or anyone really that can afford to do so without impacting their own finances too greatly should be doing their bit to contribute. Should all footballers be forced to take a pay cut? I don’t think so think personally. But when quite a few high profile athletes, celebrities and organisations have already put their hand in their pockets whilst Premier League footballers choose not to. Well it’s not a good look.

Some football fans are such saps that they will buy whatever their club sells them no matter how preposterous it is. I’m not taking about any specific club here.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

The pay cuts
If the players take a 20% cut and that’s used for the non playing staff salary it leaves about half
Assume the earner is on £30k a year that’s £1.4m a month ish for 550 people
Or £17m a year
Take that off our wages it leaves around £160m which is roughly £13m a month
So 20% odd that is £2.6m
What happens with the £1.2m over

I don’t think the call for a player pay-cut is intended to cover (just) the wages of the non-playing staff (if at all) though. It’s intended to reduce the club’s outgoings as much as possible at a time when there is significantly reduced income and a limit on how far cash reserves can be stretched. So there isn’t really anything ‘left over’.
That’s why I do have some sympathy for the stance being taken by the PFA - they want to be sure there aren’t owners taking advantage of the situation and using wage cuts as a way of building up the coffers, rather than just to maintain the running of the club.
I do think the PFA could have acted faster though and better managed the messaging of what they are trying to achieve.

 

[spitshine]

That gets my back up a bit. I don’t think it’s the role of politicians to pick one particular category of earner and tell them to take a pay cut nor tell them to make a contribution nor to pull some kind of crude emotional blackmail by bringing up NHS staff who have died (conveniently overlooking the lack of PPE, testing etc) as if that is anything to do with the players.

Somewhat agree though it has shifted a lot of the criticism from levy to the players in general.

It’s crude to play politics in a situation like this but we can do without the adverse PR at the moment.

I have no problem with players salaries in general, if you have the talent fair play they deserve it.

But when someone like lingard etc is on 150k(not long ago was on far more than Kane), then it does stink the game out.

 

[Mikey10]

This one?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1245804315811418113

Problem with Jonathan Walters argument is that PL players will all have clever accountants and will pay little tax, I’d bet.