They have a lifestyle to maintain. Mortgage payments of £50,000 a month are not easy to find.
Let's look at this from another angle: If tea lady earns £200 a week and is furloughed, the government will have to find £160 a week to pay her 80%. If footballer is still paid his £70,000 a week, the government will collect about 60% of that in income tax and national insurance, that's £42,000. Enough to pay a lot of tea ladies.
Spurs are using the 'bail out' scheme to pay their low paid staff 80% wages. Then using their own money to pay the players 100%.
Something not right about this.
Are you thick?
You're the northerner.
Where all the best, and most highly paid, footballers play.
Milan, Barcelona, Porto...
All well respected Northern towns
Football expert Al
I think you'll find the wage bill of the two Manchester clubs and Liverpool dwarf those three together.
Living in Formby, a dormitory town not far from Liverpool and home of many a great footballer over the years, I have bumped into a few in my time.
As a child I played with Cameron Toshack, son of John. And spilt orange juice on his white lounge carpet.
A girlfriend lived next door to A certain Mr Hughes.
Both normal sized detached houses worth about £400K these days.
My Wayne lived in Formby (I understand he lives In Mackworth in Derby now) I bumped into.him coming out of a pizza place. Parked on the pavement on double yellow lines at a junction. He had at least 7 pizzas.
Someone in social services my have suggested he was a right little idiot as a child.
Daughter went to school with the children of a few of them, perfectly good comprehensive. One child she described as a plastic bitch.
Anyway there's a lot of Range Rovers badly parked at Waitrose usually.