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Daniel Levy - Chairman

Jurgen the German said:
Saw plenty defend the decision to try and join the super league, put staff on furlough during Covid and when we made no signings for 3 consecutive windows. The farcical managerial search in 2021 that led to us appointing Nuno who was about 12th choice.
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Super league was a bad idea.
Furlough for staff? 100%.
Most those furloughed would be caterers etc... could have gone back to their home country and lived like a king for a few months. Instead they were stuck here having to come to work paying travel expenses and more taxes. To do fudge all. They were worse off financially.
 
Jurgen the German said:
Saw plenty defend the decision to try and join the super league, put staff on furlough during Covid and when we made no signings for 3 consecutive windows. The farcical managerial search in 2021 that led to us appointing Nuno who was about 12th choice.
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Super league was a bad idea.
Furlough for staff? 100%.
Most those furloughed would be caterers, security etc... could have gone back to their home country and lived like a king for a few months. Instead they were stuck here having to come to work paying travel expenses and more taxes. To do fudge all. They were worse off.
 
billyiddo said:
We were.only one of.a couple of clubs that qualified for it iirc - not sure if we reversed the decision, don't remember that.

What.made it the wrong decision in your view?
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Bolded part - I think you might be mixing up furlough which was available to pretty much all business with the additional government loan to businesses that became available later in the pandemic. I think it was just us and Utd who qualified for that (can’t recall the criteria).

There certainly were a few other clubs who tried to furlough their non-playing staff. Not sure whether any went through with it after the uproar.
I think it might have been Brighton who said they would make up the 20% of income that employees lost by being put on furlough, which seemed like a fair compromise, although that wouldn’t cover staff who were earning more than the amount that furlough was capped at.

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From a Skysports News article in 2020 it looks like it was Norwich, not Brighton who were going to top up employee salaries.

Saudi Sportswashing Machine did furlough staff.

Liverpool and Bournemouth also announced they would be using the furlough scheme but reversed that position after fan push-back.

Other clubs a mix between definitely not furloughing, not furloughing “at this time”and reviewing options.

www.skysports.com

Premier League clubs: Furlough, pay-cuts, deferrals

What are Premier League clubs planning in terms of their staff during the coronavirus lockdown?
www.skysports.com www.skysports.com
 
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Glenda's Legs said:
Bolded part - I think you might be mixing up furlough which was available to pretty much all business with the additional government loan to businesses that became available later in the pandemic. I think it was just us and Utd who qualified for that (can’t recall the criteria).

There certainly were a few other clubs who tried to furlough their non-playing staff. Not sure whether any went through with it after the uproar.
I think it might have been Brighton who said they would make up the 20% of income that employees lost by being put on furlough, which seemed like a fair compromise, although that wouldn’t cover staff who were earning more than the amount that furlough was capped at.
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You could top it up though right?

I think for those staff working on contracts for match days and in the club shop etc, the £2500 cap would have covered alot of it.
 
Grays_1890 said:
You could top it up though right?

I think for those staff working on contracts for match days and in the club shop etc, the £2500 cap would have covered alot of it.
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Yes. I mentioned Brighton had said they were going to do that but was just editing my post to say it was Norwich and add some info about other clubs.

Interesting from the article I posted that quite a few clubs came to agreements with playing staff to cut or defer wages. Not sure if those examples were backtracked on later.
 
Jurgen the German said:
Saw plenty defend the decision to try and join the super league, put staff on furlough during Covid and when we made no signings for 3 consecutive windows. The farcical managerial search in 2021 that led to us appointing Nuno who was about 12th choice.
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I find it hard to believe people were supporting the decision to not sign anyone for 3 windows and saying it was a good idea.

I wasn’t using the forum so much during that period, but perhaps people were trying to give possible reasons or explanations why we did that, which you took as supporting it. Giving a reason why a decision was made is not the same as supporting that decision. But I can see how it could look that way if it’s a direct response to a critical post.
 
RunTMC said:
I find it hard to believe people were supporting the decision to not sign anyone for 3 windows and saying it was a good idea.

I wasn’t using the forum so much during that period, but perhaps people were trying to give possible reasons or explanations why we did that, which you took as supporting it. Giving a reason why a decision was made is not the same as supporting that decision. But I can see how it could look that way if it’s a direct response to a critical post.
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Poch turned down players
That’s been made quite clear by a lot of people at the club
And it may have been the right choice, impossible to know
Still say the biggest issue at the time was not changing or adding a new coach to the team
 
RunTMC said:
I find it hard to believe people were supporting the decision to not sign anyone for 3 windows and saying it was a good idea.

I wasn’t using the forum so much during that period, but perhaps people were trying to give possible reasons or explanations why we did that, which you took as supporting it. Giving a reason why a decision was made is not the same as supporting that decision. But I can see how it could look that way if it’s a direct response to a critical post.
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Like all discussions, nuance was taken as a flag in the sand

I read Poch book when he turned round and said he turned down players on Aura, you mention that and its taken as defence of the overall transfers.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Poch turned down players
That’s been made quite clear by a lot of people at the club
And it may have been the right choice, impossible to know
Still say the biggest issue at the time was not changing or adding a new coach to the team
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I think not having a proper DoF at the time was a big issue as well. If we’d had a Paratici back then just flipping a few players for a zero net spend it would have all helped.
 
billyiddo said:
I still don't understand why it was wrong to put staff on furlough
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That's because you have a brain that understands what it was and the purpose of it.
You can explain that to someone else and even if it what you say makes sense or is logical/factual it still doesn't shift the needle.
Unfortunately this is rife in life at the moment.
 
Went past Hotspur Way on Friday.

Have to say looked very impressive. But one thing I would add, it was so immaculate, that gave me the impression that Levy is the kind of person who changes his boxers every time he farts
 
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