[Football] Spurs put 550 non-playing staff on furlough

Hamilton · Mar 31, 2020

You'd hope there is further player salary sacrifice as well.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...er-league-coronavirus-newcastle-a9437681.html

wellquickwoody · Mar 31, 2020

Hamilton said:
You'd hope there is further player salary sacrifice as well.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...er-league-coronavirus-newcastle-a9437681.html

Playing staff from all clubs should be on minimum 50% wage cut.

PL players that is.

GT49er · Mar 31, 2020

wellquickwoody said:
Playing staff from all clubs should be on minimum 50% wage cut.

Certainly in the PL and The Championship at least.

crodonilson · Mar 31, 2020

Same day it is revealed Levy took home 7m last year including a 3m stadium completion bonus.

:facepalm:

SAC · Mar 31, 2020

If non playing staff are expected to receive 80% (of wages), The players should be offering to make up the difference at the very least.

Difficult though, if you are a player who club is owned by a stupidly wealthy individual (or company), would you be offering to take a pay cut?

SAC · Mar 31, 2020

crodonilson said:
Same day it is revealed Levy took home 7m last year including a 3m stadium completion bonus.

How much would he have received if it was completed on time?

The Andy Naylor Fan Club · Mar 31, 2020

I can't believe a club like Tottenham can not support non playing members of staff during a world wide crisis like this. Let's say that ( a massive guess) the average wage of each non playing staff member was £2k per month, then the 20% that Tottenham would have to find is £220,000 per month. Not a great deal in the scheme of things and even less if players were to take a short term pay cut to help cover that lost pay.

Berty23 · Mar 31, 2020

It is just weird. 550 staff. Mean average of 30k a year (Guess). That is 2500 a month. So 550*2500 is 1,375,000 a month. Add on pension, NI etc and then round up to 2 million to be generous.

Pretty sure I read serge aurier is on 70k a week so let’s assume that is average. Which is about 300k a month. So 25 in first team squad is 7.5 million a month.

So if players took a 25% pay cut they could cover the wages of the other 550!

Instead the government will pay the wages of those people at 80% which means we are effectively subsidising player wages. People make the argument about nurses being paid more etc but taking tax payer money to fund football clubs like spurs is literally taking money that could be used for something else. It is amazing.

Stat Brother · Mar 31, 2020

The Andy Naylor Fan Club said:
I can't believe a club like Tottenham can not support non playing members of staff during a world wide crisis like this. Let's say that ( a massive guess) the average wage of each non playing staff member was £2k per month, then the 20% that Tottenham would have to find is £220,000 per month. Not a great deal in the scheme of things and even less if players were to take a short term pay cut to help cover that lost pay.

I can't believe Levy gets off without a murmur and the instant reaction is 'the players should pay the different'.

What about the billionaire owner?

The Andy Naylor Fan Club · Mar 31, 2020

Berty23 said:
It is just weird. 550 staff. Mean average of 30k a year (Guess). That is 2500 a month. So 550*2500 is 1,375,000 a month. Add on pension, NI etc and then round up to 2 million to be generous.

Pretty sure I read serge aurier is on 70k a week so let’s assume that is average. Which is about 300k a month. So 25 in first team squad is 7.5 million a month.

So if players took a 25% pay cut they could cover the wages of the other 550!

Instead the government will pay the wages of those people at 80% which means we are effectively subsidising player wages. People make the argument about nurses being paid more etc but taking tax payer money to fund football clubs like spurs is literally taking money that could be used for something else. It is amazing.

It would only need to be 20% of the monthly wage that Tottenham would need to cover.

Elipsis · Mar 31, 2020

Pretty disgusting that Newcastle and Spurs are taking advantage of this scheme, while continuing to pay £50k+ per week to playing staff. I guess we'll see which other clubs have similarly low ethics over the next few days.

Stat Brother · Mar 31, 2020

Elipsis said:
Pretty disgusting that Newcastle and Spurs are taking advantage of this scheme.

But not exactly surprising.

My money would be on West Ham being next.

Thunder Bolt · Mar 31, 2020

I wonder if celebrity television presenters are expected to make up the wages of all the backroom staff that have been furloughed. Make up, hairdressers, wardrobe etc etc.

Berty23 · Mar 31, 2020

The Andy Naylor Fan Club said:
It would only need to be 20% of the monthly wage that Tottenham would need to cover.

Only if the government pays the other 80%. My point is that these scheme was not designed for this. It was designed to keep business afloat. Not for businesses to take the piss. If they would genuinely have made these staff redundant then fine. I am saying they would not though.

The Andy Naylor Fan Club · Mar 31, 2020

Berty23 said:
Only if the government pays the other 80%. My point is that these scheme was not designed for this. It was designed to keep business afloat. Not for businesses to take the piss. If they would genuinely have made these staff redundant then fine. I am saying they would not though.

OK, I see. Fair point.

Springal · Mar 31, 2020

Berty23 said:
Only if the government pays the other 80%. My point is that these scheme was not designed for this. It was designed to keep business afloat. Not for businesses to take the piss. If they would genuinely have made these staff redundant then fine. I am saying they would not though.

To be fair I bet a bunch of these are match day staff - so there is a case to be made that they would be made redundant

The Wizard · Mar 31, 2020

Levy fighting it out with Ashley for the biggest football twit of the Corona Crisis. Tosser.

Paris · Mar 31, 2020

Elipsis said:
Pretty disgusting that Newcastle and Spurs are taking advantage of this scheme, while continuing to pay £50k+ per week to playing staff. I guess we'll see which other clubs have similarly low ethics over the next few days.

Completely agree. This is the worst side of football on display here. Sickening really.

Berty23 · Mar 31, 2020

Springal said:
To be fair I bet a bunch of these are match day staff - so there is a case to be made that they would be made redundant

Would they though? How much do matchday staff get paid a month? 3 home matches? What is that? Maybe 300 quid a month? Surely they would not make them redundant would they?

The others will be sports science, physios, groundsmen, office based etc. Would they have been made redundant? No chance. It is a blag and taking the piss.

The Lemming Stomper · Mar 31, 2020

Stat Brother said:
I can't believe Levy gets off without a murmur and the instant reaction is 'the players should pay the different'.

What about the billionaire owner?

Alright Harry....How's the ankle going ?

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