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Premier League players may be willing to pay the wages of their non-playing colleagues, if their clubs can show a genuine need for them to do so because of the financial crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Professional Footballers’ Association has signalled.
The players’ union made that suggestion in an unusually detailed statement in response to widespread calls for Premier League footballers to take pay cuts – including from the health secretary, Matt Hancock, at the government’s daily Covid-19 press conference, where he was standing in for the prime minister, Boris Johnson.
Written by David Conn and Paul MacInnes
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/apr/02/premier-league-clubs-must-face-windfall-tax-over-wages-says-mp under the title “Premier League players may be willing to pay wages of club staff, says PFA”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
