Meanwhile, some of the wealthiest EPL clubs are under fire for furloughing non-playing staff, leaving them reliant on the UK\u2019s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Under the program, the government has pledged to pay 80 percent of wages up to \u00a32,500 ($3,060 USD) for staff who are placed on temporary leave by companies during the crisis<\/p>\n
But many believe that it\u2019s the EPL\u2019s excessively remunerated soccer stars who should be taking the pay cut to shoulder the economic burden on non-playing staff.<\/p>\n
The teams have suggested all EPL players accept a 30 percent wage slash during the crisis. But this was rejected by the players union over the weekend.<\/p>\n
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The Professional Footballers\u2019 Association (PFA) said the proposal would be \u201cdetrimental\u201d to the publicly funded National Health Service (NHS) because it would result in losses over \u00a3200 million ($245 million USD) in income taxes for the government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The situation is rapidly turning into a PR disaster for the EPL. That\u2019s in contrast to Spain\u2019s equally high-profile La Liga, whose stars have readily agreed to a 70 percent pay cut.<\/p>\n
Julian Knight, the chair of the UK government\u2019s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said it exposed “the crazy economics in English football and the moral vacuum at its centre.”<\/p>\n
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The English Premier League could restart as early as June, but only under \u201cstrictly controlled conditions,\u201d with games being played behind closed doors. The Daily Mirror reports that EPL chiefs met with government health officials and representatives of the league\u2019s 20 teams in a bid to hammer out an exit strategy from lockdown for England\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":132334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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