Nowhere near the same thing.
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Nowhere near the same thing.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
how, buying up property to make money off is far more morally dubious than a premier league player taking a cut of tv money
Except we’re talking about people taking pay cuts to prop up emergency services, not who’s more morally ethical than the other.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
except a player taking a pay cut has no effect on emergency services
Movie stars. Pop stars. I've seen a lot of crap movies and heard a lot of crap songs. Are you saying that they don't need to give away 30% if they are good?
Completely different I’m afraid, their earnings are based on a film-by-film or tour-by-tour/album-by-album basis, with sponsorships on top.
Why on earth people are feeling the need to passionately defend footballer’s salaries is beyond me.
CEO's, CTO's, etc of large corporations are regularly replaced/removed. Being part of a successful firm does not make an individual good at their role. Do you think these people leave with empty pockets? The reality of the corporate world is that they are given huge payoffs and restricted from taking on certain types of future employment for significant periods of time. They are effectively paid to do nothing as it prevents their business knowledge being transferred to a rival company. Travel companies are a good place to look given the recent Covid discussions.
I'm not passionately defending footballers but I do question the right for people to demand someone else gets a paycut.
Also, the above are not different at all. It's someone who's earnings could be considered obscene and should therefore be forced to share those earnings.
Stan Lee Park
Player Valuation: £20m
Another day, another deafening silence from the PL. the players and the gutless PFA.
Well done lads.
Well done lads.
Thetigerblue
Player Valuation: £5m
David Squires on … blaming football (and Joël Bats) for Covid-19
Our cartoonist depicts the hunt for Brighton’s Dan Burn, dinosaurs v Gordon Taylor, and club owners doing their bit for society
Another day, people siding with Matt Hancock.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
I've written a couple of things for the main page. They were meant to sort of signpost the danger we are in. In all honesty my feeling is increasingly they were too cautious. We are in for big big shock.
What I will say with the players. Not only do they enjoy obscene wages (at the top end particularly so) but they have been in an industry that has seen almost unheralded growth for 30 years. Even a 30% cut to wages still have them earning more than they did 5-6 years ago and substantially more than 10 years ago. This shouldn't be lost.
I think a 30% cut would only stem the flow too. It would allow clubs to just about keep breathing, if we navigate our way through this crisis quite well and the problems aren't too damaging. 30% will allow us to probably control the downturn without panic setting in.
The worry is, without such a measure, and football clubs going bust (Germany, a relatively well run country estimates as much as 50% of their 2nd tier sides could go bust) can you imagine the amount of bad debt in the system then? The whole thing would collapse on itself. Players salaries would fall a lot more than 30% in such scenario.
JobForTheMoyes
Player Valuation: £35m
Tossers using the NHS to score PR points.
Sweeneytoad
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Credit to making a donation to the nhs, but they're not giving up 30% then.
I thought the whole point of this was to keep clubs afloat and keep non-playing staff in jobs by allowing clubs to survive financially. I wonder wonder which premier league/ championship club furlough their players first, because lets be honest its going to come down to that. See how they get by on 2.5k a month then.
I thought the whole point of this was to keep clubs afloat and keep non-playing staff in jobs by allowing clubs to survive financially. I wonder wonder which premier league/ championship club furlough their players first, because lets be honest its going to come down to that. See how they get by on 2.5k a month then.
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