it’s not even looking at it in the aggregate. Someone like Harry Kane should be squirming with embarrassment that the marketing guy, or the tea lady are only able to earn 80% of what they usually do, whilst the first team footballers are banking their usual pay packet.
there are lots of owners who are taking stick, Richard Branson for one - furthermore Levy’s compensation package has been quoted on the stories.
he could take a £1m less next year and all of his staff could get paid 100% of their expected wage.
I agree.
And he should be using his clout at that club to ask Joe Lewis (whose net worth is £4.6bn) and Daniel Levy why on earth they have made that decision and, if it were me, questioning whether he wants to continue to work for such an organisation that treats its staff so poorly. That is, I think, the course of action most people on this forum would take if they were in a similar position at work and your boss was proposing not to pay staff on the pay band below you in full; I can't think anyone is sticking their hand in to their own pocket to support their own bosses greed.
Footballer's, rich though they are, are an utter distraction and should not be expected to bail out their substantially richer bosses because they're tight fisted cnut. It is, obviously, a different story when the entire financial stability of the club depends on players taking pay cuts, but that is simply not the case here or at Newcastle. The villains are Joe Lewis, Daniel Levy, and Mike Ashley.
I mean feck me, I know it's a football forum but the simple fact here is that somehow you're all managing to vilify footballers (who are no doubt well off) for not taking pay cuts whilst cnuts like Jeff Bezos can ask the public to donate sick days to his workers rather than spend any of his ludicrous wealth, and cnuts like Johan Lundgren can pay themselves millions in dividend payments and then in the same week ask for the government to bailout their airline, and cnuts like Richard Branson can get his begging bowl out in the same week he asks staff to take 8 weeks unpaid leave with there being hardly a word said.
Please, please, be righteously angry about the rich taking the fecking piss during this crisis. But there's far bigger fish to fry on this topic than sodding footballers. If we're going to eat the rich, and by god should we, then let's start with the fattest feckers first.