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Hasn’t taken a penny in the last 3 years, thinks it’s obscene what they earn and thinks during the virus every premier league player shouldn’t be paid.
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https://www.football365.com/news/fea...t-matt-hancock
Hasn’t taken a penny in the last 3 years, thinks it’s obscene what they earn and thinks during the virus every premier league player shouldn’t be paid.
Troy Deeney
It’s gotta be someone like that from the languageOriginally Posted by chris lee
What a bloke
Piss off Hancock you rich tory tosser , get your backers to stump up some money as well
Are you saying that Prem League players, who just to clarify earn on avg £64k per week, SHOULDN’T be made to contribute? I’m confused.
I note that Danny Rose, who made some perplexing comments about players being asked to contribute, was lauded for making a £19k contribution to a hospital in the South East which is very good of him. That is........30% of the avg weekly wage. So if Rose earns the avg weekly wage (very unlikely as he is contracted to Spurs and so probable earns quite a bit more) then he has contributed 30% of ONE week’s salary.
Whereas the actual number sounds big the effect to him will be virtually unnoticeable.
Am I missing something here? :-0
Yes you clearly are confused
I fully agree that premier league players should contribute and hancock , the tory health minister , who had donations from private healthcare companies during the election campaign should get his rich backers to stump up too
No you seem to be confused by some basic maths and simple understanding of commerce:
Donations to the Tory party (and those to most political parties) are a drop in the ocean compared to what basic (try to understand that part) wages of a Prem League footballer. Additionally, some cretins are calling for other ‘high earners’ to contribute.
Do people ACTUALLY realise that no one, not CEOs, bankers, hedge fund managers whoever, earn a WEEKLY wage anywhere near that of a Prem League footballer? They may get big bonuses (er, just like Prem League footballers ALSO do) and/or shares to make up sizeable annual pay packets but most dullards simply don’t get this. And all they have to do it look at the financial report of any public company. It really is comical that people don’t know this.
So please try harder. I know that it is difficult for you.
Not true. See https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/905646...ichest-people/
Great interview. I'm someone who often plays devil's advocate with footballer wages but he's changed my tune a bit.
Deeney must be one of the senior players. He says he is earning below average - but is that squad or league?
If it's Deeney, didn't we try and sign him last year but his wages were too high?
Refreshing though to hear someone who understands the real world and total respect to him.
Read the interview, it says plenty about Hancock.
I've always wondered this.
A player goes into negotiation for a new contract. He is on £100,000 a week. The club offers him £125,000 because he's doing well, but he demands £140,000. At that level, what difference does it really make?
Like the player says, he bought his house and cars in his first 5 months on a big wage.
What are our biggest loans? Usually house, car, and then the bills. For us £100 on electric and gas is a load of money, because it's probably about 5-10% of our take home. But, they pay the same for their electric and gas (maybe a bit more because of higher prices). What can they spend the money on? Savings for when they retire? But, they have no loans to repay at that stage.
So, when a player is 25, and he has everything he needs, what is the motivation to earn even more money that he is incapable of spending?
I do the lottery, and have always said that if I won £100m the chances are I'd be sorted with £1.5-£2m for life (I am 38) - so the rest would make sure other people I know would not have to work again. They are just numbers on a piece of paper when you have nothing to worry about. But, the NHS nurse who could get stricken by the disease is also the main earner in the family. And that nurse will be worrying about their own finances as well as doing a job - we all do really - but I am just an office worker and my work is only critical to me because it puts money in my account to pay off my mortgage. I think people are waking up to this now, and football as an industry is going to get a backlash for being out of touch.
fair play, whoever he is deserves a big pat on the back. when he retires perhaps then he can be named.
His name isn't important. His message is.
Yeah I’d never really considered how much it is coming in every month. Like what do you even do with that sort of money?!
I always thought the reason I’d most like to win the lottery is to give a load to family and friends.
I see the PFA have come out this morning criticising plans for a 30 % wage cut for Premier League players arguing about the lost tax revenues this would result in - I think they are on a loser there when it comes to public opinion.
This bloke strikes a chord with me because even if I were, say, in my thirties now, I could easily live the rest of my life in a manner which I would call comfortable for the rest of my life on two months payment for a good Premier League player as long as the money was invested sensibly.
The tax point made by the PFA is bogus and a huge own-goal (wink). Why don't they just donate the entire 30% to the NHS? Issue solved.
Jug ears Lineker this morning said all "high earners" should have wage cuts.
Nobody seems to want to explain how the hole caused by loss of all that tax will be filled.
As far as the Prem, it's crap. Liverpool who made 48m profit last season, can't pay 20k a year max workers? Utter bollocks. The government scheme was intended to help small businesses facing cash flow issues get through this - not for large companies to take the piss and get taxpayer subsidies. Lower league and non-league clubs you can understand would be in need of that help, but the rest? Crap.
Unnamed player claims to have given 200k a month to charity for 3 years? Bollocks. Conveniently unidentified player, the sneering political tone of the conversation... DHOTY candidate.
The foregone pay isn't going to disappear. They could just donate the entire amount to the tax authorities or donate it.
So what you're saying is you're happy for incredibly rich clubs to abuse a system designed to help businesses who may end up with cashflow issues by treating low paid staff like shit because highly paid players could take pay cuts, oh and pay the missing tax voluntary hence getting effectively taxed twice... whilst the incredibly rich clubs get taxpayer money.
You seem to want to blast highly paid players rather than putting the blame at the clubs.
If you're talking lower league / non-league clubs, where there isn't the cash slushing around, that's a different story - even than, that just shows how badly run football clubs are when it comes to business. Too many spend what they don't have, in that case the lower paid staff should absolutely be taken care of.
Huh? I'll accept your apology in advance.
Funny how the majority of posters are taking this as a genuine interview presumably because it corresponds with their own views, political and otherwise. If it was the other way around no doubt they would jump on it straight away and accuse it of being a load of made up twaddle produced by the interviewer (which it almost certainly is).
People are always going to agree with the side that makes sense to them, both morally and politically, the same as you do almost constantly. Although i do agree in terms of the authenticity of this article, there's no way of proving it to be true, and that is a little at odds with some of the replies from certain posters who slam others for putting up artlicles based on zero evidence.
I liked the way the player rationalised anonymity because kidnappers could target his family knowing he is a loaded Prem footballer and gives money. After all, they'd not target him for being a loaded Prem footballer not giving money away.
If this was true (and i'm not saying that it isn't) The player in question would be known by the wider public (If they actually gave a shit) This isn't the kind of stuff that is top secret, sworn to secrecy etc, players would tell journos, their mates and missus, it would be common knowledge in the football world. He's apparently giving away a load of his wages, not devised a fool proof formula to stop poverty and disease.
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