Won the CL, spent millions on players, have accumulated huge revenue from CL success, and the so called moral crusader if you saw the amount of "sh"articles by their fans on here slating Spurs for doing this and yet Liverpool just announced that the club has taken the decision to furlough more than half of their non-playing staff.
Asking us the tax payers to foot the bill for their staff wages, is a shameless act in my view.
I called out Levy for this, but would any of them call out their owners? I doubt it. They like the selective memory bit.
Slating Spurs for this and yet they are as guilty and for a club that won the CL, which is supposed to be the ultimate money maker, as low as it can get.
CL champions but can't afford to pay their staff wages.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/04/04/liverpool-place-half-non-playing-staff-furlough-will-top-remaining/
Greedy Liverpool shame on you
posted on 4/4/20
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● (U3924)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Brother (U20548)
posted 8 minutes ago
Then petrol should be a lot cheaper than it is!
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Supermarket petrol is currently 1.06, Esso I noticed was 1.17, big difference at the moment
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Yeah noticed that. Should be around 1.06 yet some BPs I drove past Friday night were at 1.25 still
posted on 4/4/20
comment by Scouze Doggie Dog (U22357)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Great Teams Put Staff On Furlough (U1308)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● (U3924)
posted 7 minutes ago
Most clubs will probably end up furloughing because this is not going away any time soon, the only ones that won`t will be the oil money clubs, who will take it as an opportunity to spend even more of their extreme wealth, gaining a pat on the back from the public in the process.
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Clubs in Spain and Italy. Even Germany asked players first to take a cut in wages in the short term. Not seeing how they could pay staff with financial assistance.
Liverpool and Spurs along with Newcastle are the Virgin Of football
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Liverpool waited until players were asked to take a 30% pay cut, no?
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Yep and will ensure non playing staff will get 100% of their salary.
posted on 4/4/20
comment by Redinthehead - FreeGaza - فلسطين (U1860)
posted 13 minutes ago
comment by Scouze Doggie Dog (U22357)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by Great Teams Put Staff On Furlough (U1308)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● (U3924)
posted 7 minutes ago
Most clubs will probably end up furloughing because this is not going away any time soon, the only ones that won`t will be the oil money clubs, who will take it as an opportunity to spend even more of their extreme wealth, gaining a pat on the back from the public in the process.
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Clubs in Spain and Italy. Even Germany asked players first to take a cut in wages in the short term. Not seeing how they could pay staff with financial assistance.
Liverpool and Spurs along with Newcastle are the Virgin Of football
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Liverpool waited until players were asked to take a 30% pay cut, no?
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Yep and will ensure non playing staff will get 100% of their salary.
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Liverpool fans who dissed Spurs can't change their mids though.
posted on 4/4/20
Oil at less than 20p a litre. 😂
posted on 4/4/20
Posters getting carried away and using this as a way to have a dig towards a club they don’t support. It’s just so typical.
What’s different to Liverpool doing this - furloughing their lower paid employees, to another company - any company - doing the same thing?
Those companies have high earners that can’t be furloughed. Because of the 50,000 per year threshold.
Yet those people of those companies could very well bail the lower paid employees of their companies out?
But they won’t.
There is no difference.
Get past your tribalism, and get past your intent on using this to have a half-Assd dig at another club, just because.
posted on 4/4/20
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 5 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by FootyMcfootfoot (U21853)
posted 13 minutes ago
The I think it's a pisstake that any company with a huge profit margin or reserve funding should use the scheme.
I just can't accept it's justified tbh, especially as taxpayers will foot the bill for years and years to come.
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Hang on.
You have a problem with tax payers repaying tax to keep mainly low paid to median paid people in employment which will allow them to pay tax as opposed to being made redundant?
That’s what this scheme is. And if the business can’t demonstrate they needed it they have to repay it.
They also have to look after a business with no certainty ahead of them, and huge income streams on which they depend being lost.
Aye ok
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My issue is that I don't think this system was intended to be used by companies of this size, with the funding and reserves they have available.
It was rushed through asap so open to abuse but it strikes me as a scheme to stop small/medium businesses firing people they would otherwise be unable to retain.
Liverpool spent 40 plus million on agents fees alone last year. As much as I live Liverpool this just doesn't sit right with me personally.
posted on 4/4/20
If the government gives them anything then the government should receive a stake in the corporation in return.
posted on 5/4/20
comment by Scouze Doggie Dog (U22357)
posted 11 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by Great Teams Put Staff On Furlough (U1308)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● (U3924)
posted 7 minutes ago
Most clubs will probably end up furloughing because this is not going away any time soon, the only ones that won`t will be the oil money clubs, who will take it as an opportunity to spend even more of their extreme wealth, gaining a pat on the back from the public in the process.
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Clubs in Spain and Italy. Even Germany asked players first to take a cut in wages in the short term. Not seeing how they could pay staff with financial assistance.
Liverpool and Spurs along with Newcastle are the Virgin Of football
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Liverpool waited until players were asked to take a 30% pay cut, no?
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Not they didn’t.
And unlike Spain/Italy and Germany, the PFA has become involved. Other ‘big clubs’ had players take pay cuts, wage deferral.
posted on 5/4/20
What a weapon the OP is LOL
posted on 5/4/20
comment by Great Teams Put Staff On Furlough (U1308)
posted 4 hours, 40 minutes ago
comment by Scouze Doggie Dog (U22357)
posted 11 hours, 1 minute ago
comment by Great Teams Put Staff On Furlough (U1308)
posted 27 minutes ago
comment by ● Billy The Yidd ● (U3924)
posted 7 minutes ago
Most clubs will probably end up furloughing because this is not going away any time soon, the only ones that won`t will be the oil money clubs, who will take it as an opportunity to spend even more of their extreme wealth, gaining a pat on the back from the public in the process.
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Clubs in Spain and Italy. Even Germany asked players first to take a cut in wages in the short term. Not seeing how they could pay staff with financial assistance.
Liverpool and Spurs along with Newcastle are the Virgin Of football
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Liverpool waited until players were asked to take a 30% pay cut, no?
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Not they didn’t.
And unlike Spain/Italy and Germany, the PFA has become involved. Other ‘big clubs’ had players take pay cuts, wage deferral.
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I believe the initiative came from the players.
At Barca they took a 70% pay cut for four months and that's the way forward. In England, people are happy and applauding players for giving 30% for one month, which is peanuts for me and if the tax argument is correct then players should be taking a much bigger pay cut in my opinion. The players get 30% flat. The rest goes to pay tax as usual, support clubs in turmoil and the NHS until football resumes.