I see Schalke have written to ST holders asking if they would be prepared to waive refunds due to them for remaining games they cant attend. How would you react to a similar request from Albion ?
This, although I haven't heard them say this, I hope they have.The Albion have already said that tickets will be refunded in the form of reductions on DD payments for next season.
If we were in league one and playing at withdean, sure - i would waive my refund. But we are a premier league club that turns over millions each season, so it would be a more difficult decision.
Given the way TB has reacted so far I guess I might go along with that. I’d hope all our games would be televised though
You're so right given the way TB, PB & GP have behaved, although the players still leave a significant amount to be desired in my opinion. I know they have different types of contracts and commitments but the constant reference to "deferring" payments and not making it clear what they are doing sticks in my throat.
I have been negative about the 500 or so PL players who have, generally, allowed their union to put them in a bad light, been slow to react to public sentiment etc.
However, I have come to the opinion that, whilst the clubs haven't actually lost significant sums of money (by which I mean Sky/BT haven't demanded rebates, the current season is still supposed to complete, no sponsors have pulled out of contracts, etc), this remains strictly an issue of cash flow NOT income.
The clubs will get their money in due course, it's only they have bills and wages to pay until the cash flows again. Therefore it is perfectly reasonable for players to only *defer* their wages until such time as the TV money is coming in again. I will caveat that with, ALL PL clubs should continue to pay their non-playing staff 100% of their wages (because the money they will be paid will come in eventually too).
No top tier club should be facing any sort of long term difficulty, provided the biggest cash outgoing, player wages, can be delayed until the biggest cash income, TV money, resumes in full.
If Sky/BT choose to be d*cks then this situation changes but at this stage, all players deferring salary are ok in my book.
I do feel there's a moral issue here also. If you earn £50,000 a week and those around are facing destitution, bankruptcy and more then I think you should be seen to do the right thing and show you care and feel some of the pain that others are, it's just the right thing to do.
This, although I haven't heard them say this, I hope they have.
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Don't disagree at all in certain instances. Jenas, Rooney and Rose are all ones I would single out as completely missing the point and being so self-interested as to be borderline inhuman.
Add to them the owners who's first instinct was to hold out a hand and the PFA being so blindly obstinate that talks collapsed and you have a scenario where a lot of people, who let's be frank, do not need this money right now, sat back and watched hundreds of people who cook and clean and answer phones get furloughed, or took wage cuts or, worse, lost their jobs. All this amounts to a real stink that may never go away for me.
But... Slowly, a growing number of players and clubs have done the right thing, at owner level (in BHA's case) or at player level (Leeds, Birmingham, etc).
Yes. There are still a LOT of inhumane, thankless, CJTC who are taking the whole slice and not giving anything up, but they seem more in a minority than a month ago.
I have, generally, drifted off from football in the past month. I can't listen to Peter Crouch, I can't read PB's emails, I can't even wear the multitude of seagull-bearing clothes in my wardrobe and I am really unsure how I will feel about going back to watching games. Damage has been done, but *some* players have finally stepped up to the mark so maybe I will forgive. Time will tell.