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posted on 3/4/20

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posted on 3/4/20

Spurs (8th richest club in the world, Levy highest paid chairman (3mln quid bonus) who are paying a fat waster like N'Dombele 200K a week !!!! are tapping the govt for money having cut non-playing wages by 20%

Beyond embarrassing

posted on 3/4/20

comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 1 minute ago
Spurs are using tax payers money. Not any of the clubs you have listed.
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This is about players, stick to the article. Daniel Levy just used a scheme that is open to all businesses, big or small. May not have been right, but he has not actually done anything, any other big business is not doing.

posted on 3/4/20

comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 42 seconds ago
Spurs (8th richest club in the world, Levy highest paid chairman (3mln quid bonus) who are paying a fat waster like N'Dombele 200K a week !!!! are tapping the govt for money having cut non-playing wages by 20%

Beyond embarrassing
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Re my reply to GTW14T

posted on 3/4/20

Many of them will have lost millions over the last month or so. Most are too stupid to manage their own money, so sign up with “financial advisors” that invest their wages in special investment vehicles, collateralised debt obligations, junk bonds, credit default swaps, etc.

All of these products will have seen their money go up in smoke recently 😂

posted on 3/4/20

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comment by Busby (U19985)

posted on 3/4/20

Why would they take pay cuts? So clubs get more profits?

posted on 3/4/20

comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 4 seconds ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 28 seconds ago
comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 1 minute ago
Spurs are using tax payers money. Not any of the clubs you have listed.
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This is about players, stick to the article. Daniel Levy just used a scheme that is open to all businesses, big or small. May not have been right, but he has not actually done anything, any other big business is not doing.
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You literally wrote the below. Only Spurs are doing this out of the clubs you mention.

Come on fellas and ladies, do the right thing. Give up some of your money, so that your employees can get paid without using tax payers money.
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I was referring to players, did you actually read the article properly? Shouldn`t you be having a pop at why your own players are hanging on for dear life to their £300 grand a week wages.

posted on 3/4/20

At the moment clubs listed above can still afford to pay all there none playing staff because they have well run business model.

posted on 3/4/20

Footballers are paid by private companies and pay huge amounts in taxes which are needed right now going into the economy

I don’t think they should take pay cuts - because I do think many of them are supposedly working to make huge donations which is a fairer system.

posted on 3/4/20

comment by Busby (U19985)
posted 36 seconds ago
Why would they take pay cuts? So clubs get more profits?
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Because they are not working. Don`t work, don`t get paid is the norm.

posted on 3/4/20

comment by (kash) I'm the Mané - 6 Times Baby (U1108)
posted 3 minutes ago
At the moment clubs listed above can still afford to pay all there none playing staff because they have well run business model.
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Not sustainable. This is probably going on for months, if not over a year, so expect all clubs will fall into line with Spurs eventually.

posted on 3/4/20

What a joke of an article when your club is trying to get government assistance to pay their non-playing staff

How about your players supporting the non-playing staff

Your club obviously can't

posted on 3/4/20

comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 42 seconds ago
Spurs (8th richest club in the world, Levy highest paid chairman (3mln quid bonus) who are paying a fat waster like N'Dombele 200K a week !!!! are tapping the govt for money having cut non-playing wages by 20%

Beyond embarrassing
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Re my reply to GTW14T
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Its actually not about the players...... For them, they should do it coz its the right thing to do BUT their contracts are fully protected and clearly not many want to be see breaking ranks with their union. The players do not decided how many non playing staff are hired and what they are paid.

In the case of Spurs its very simple. The players SHOULD volunteer to take a cut coz its the right thing to do. Levy/ Lewis should be paying the non playing staff until this is over.... Not tapping taxpayer funds just weeks about crowing about the clubs financial performance.

The whole thing is a joke..... 8th richest club in the world who basically cant go a couple of months without football without having to cut wages by 20%..... as I have said for years. Levy's spurs is all a house of cards....

For those of you who bang on about how Levy's stadium will cement the clubs legacy for years.... It looks more likely to bankrupt us. As always something stinks to heavens at spurs and it all leads back to Levy

posted on 3/4/20

comment by Prankster - Dr Pu$$y (U22336)
posted 49 seconds ago
What a joke of an article when your club is trying to get government assistance to pay their non-playing staff

How about your players supporting the non-playing staff

Your club obviously can't
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Stick to the article, which is clearly about players not taking wage cuts. There are plenty of other articles about Daniel Levy, post there please if you want to talk about him.

Disgraceful that players like Salah and VVD are trousering all that money for doing nothing, when nurses are earning a pittance for keeping people alive.

posted on 3/4/20

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posted on 3/4/20

comment by Prankster - Dr Pu$$y (U22336)
posted 4 seconds ago
What a joke of an article when your club is trying to get government assistance to pay their non-playing staff

How about your players supporting the non-playing staff

Your club obviously can't
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I think there is no issue in clubs using the furlough procedure to keep staff but not have to pay them (better than making them redundant). Really, a bar staff or steward or waiter or cleaner at Spurs is no different to the same roles at a weatherspoons, Starbucks, McDonaldetc. All these staff will have been furloughed. All massive profitable businesses. Don't see anyone else calling them despicable, just singling out football teams for criticism.

What is closer to being despicable is that Spurs & others are not topping up the 80% paid by Govt with their own 20% so these workers, many of whom will be at the lower pay spectrum, are not out of pocket.

posted on 3/4/20

Can posters please stick to the article. It is about players taking wage cuts, not about Daniel Levy, that has been done to death.

Mention Daniel Levy, and you will be deleted.

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Prankster, stick to talking about players.

posted on 3/4/20

The question shouldn't really be about why £200k a week footballers aren't taking pay cuts. The questions should be....how the fack did that happen in the first place and will we let it continue

Maximum wage cap of £20k a week (for example) please. Any of them who want to hop off and find better paid jobs can do so.

Gate prices and tv money adjusted accordingly.

posted on 3/4/20

comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 7 seconds ago
Prankster, stick to talking about players.
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I did, I asked why spurs players aren't leading the way given what your club is doing

posted on 3/4/20

comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 30 seconds ago
Can posters please stick to the article. It is about players taking wage cuts, not about Daniel Levy, that has been done to death.

Mention Daniel Levy, and you will be deleted.
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Fair enough, but we all know they should but until there is universal agreement not many (other than the very best paid who have more money than god actually will )..... If you wanna talk about players...... How about golden boy, England & Spurs Captain Harry Kane leading the way.... But no, he's too busy talking about his personal ambitions & a possible mega money move....... Nothing like looking out for ones self interest

posted on 3/4/20

comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 42 seconds ago
Spurs (8th richest club in the world, Levy highest paid chairman (3mln quid bonus) who are paying a fat waster like N'Dombele 200K a week !!!! are tapping the govt for money having cut non-playing wages by 20%

Beyond embarrassing
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Re my reply to GTW14T
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Its actually not about the players...... For them, they should do it coz its the right thing to do BUT their contracts are fully protected and clearly not many want to be see breaking ranks with their union. The players do not decided how many non playing staff are hired and what they are paid.

In the case of Spurs its very simple. The players SHOULD volunteer to take a cut coz its the right thing to do. Levy/ Lewis should be paying the non playing staff until this is over.... Not tapping taxpayer funds just weeks about crowing about the clubs financial performance.

The whole thing is a joke..... 8th richest club in the world who basically cant go a couple of months without football without having to cut wages by 20%..... as I have said for years. Levy's spurs is all a house of cards....

For those of you who bang on about how Levy's stadium will cement the clubs legacy for years.... It looks more likely to bankrupt us. As always something stinks to heavens at spurs and it all leads back to Levy
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Shut up with your anti Levy agenda.

The same mouth that slates him for being tight with Spurs money is now slating him for the opposite reason.

Spurs & football may be a billion pound industry but so are many many others which have furloughed stafff

and its not a 20% pay cut in terms of what SPurs are having to pay, its a 100% reduction in our non-playing staff wage bill.

I agree it's very poor we are not topping up the 20% lost but stop sensationalising this Football situation when almost every other big business is doing the same.

Spurs will likely lose £20m on this on matchday revenues alone. On top of other lost events - Joshua, Gaga, G&Rs etc etc If the season fails to restart and the we lose TV money from this season as well (25% of the seasons) then that's probably another £30m down the toilet. This is real. No doubt you'll be moaning about or lack of spending in the summer too!

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