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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Low paid staff like the 'tea lady' to get 80% of their usual pittance. While nancy boy players (but not playing) who average £70,000 a week, still receive 100%.

I'm sure they are worth every penny.

 

[STEMO]

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.

[STEMO]

Slightly less tax and NI than I thought, but nevertheless......

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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.

[STEMO]

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?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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.

[STEMO]

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.

[Doctor Gollum]

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

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

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

Pretty sure there are more whippet/ferret/pigeon owners per square mile in Barnsley than Milan. Could be wrong though.

[Doctor Gollum]

Probably. Now. Not so sure a month ago... 

[STEMO]

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.

[Rangie]

Footballers have been overpaid for years, can't see why it upsets people anymore,  bloody daft in my opinion but it won't stop can't bear to watch the game at all now.

[STEMO]

Footballers have been overpaid for years, can't see why it upsets people anymore,  bloody daft in my opinion but it won't stop can't bear to watch the game at all now.

If clubs can pay the wages they do, and still make £500 million, the the demand must be there.
Also remember, the wages people hear about are for players at the very top clubs. Lower division players get paid a very decent wage, but nowhere near what the top players get.

[ronnyd]

I believe that the Barcelona players voted to take a 70% pay cut last week. This was to ensure that the lower paid staff will still get their full wages.

[STEMO]

I believe that the Barcelona players voted to take a 70% pay cut last week. This was to ensure that the lower paid staff will still get their full wages.

Yes, I read that. I believe others have done similar.

[STEMO]

I agree with Opti, it's outrageous. But, where else can I wind people up when I'm bored? 

[Rangie]

Good luck to them whatever they earn just glad that I don't contribute anything towards their wages.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Good luck to them whatever they earn just glad that I don't contribute anything towards their wages.

Earn implies graft........or intellectual excellence. They offer neither.

The reality is they are just a bunch of teenage boys and twenty something lads who kick a ball about on a muddy piece of grass.

Still, market forces say they should be paid 50 times that of a hospital consultant. and drive around in a new £300,000 Aston.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I believe that the Barcelona players voted to take a 70% pay cut last week. This was to ensure that the lower paid staff will still get their full wages.

Assuming an average premier league wage of £70,000, a 70% cut would leave them only £21000 each week. That seems hardly fair on your average 20-25 year old. How is he supposed to live.

[STEMO]

They are providing something that people are prepared to spend vast amounts of cash on. I aid and abet by subscribing to sky sports, but some folk spend a grand or so on season tickets, buy the shirts, window stickers, etc.
It is, I agree, obscene, but supply and demand has always been the way of things.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

They are providing something that people are prepared to spend vast amounts of cash on. I aid and abet by subscribing to sky sports, but some folk spend a grand or so on season tickets, buy the shirts, window stickers, etc.
It is, I agree, obscene, but supply and demand has always been the way of things.

Unusually for a scouser you are often correct. I suppose the same applies to other 'hobby jobs' like Golf, motor racing, tennis, baseball etc ...etc.

[BazaJT]

Whilst I agree that footballers[the top ones especially]get paid obscene amounts of money,how many of us hand on heart can say that if offered the same wage would turn it down as being too much?

[Kevin Wood]

Whilst I agree that footballers[the top ones especially]get paid obscene amounts of money,how many of us hand on heart can say that if offered the same wage would turn it down as being too much?

I really hope I'd feel sufficiently ashamed by the current situation to pay the bloke who cuts the grass out of my own pocket rather than see him out on his @rse, mind.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Whilst I agree that footballers[the top ones especially]get paid obscene amounts of money,how many of us hand on heart can say that if offered the same wage would turn it down as being too much?

I really hope I'd feel sufficiently ashamed by the current situation to pay the bloke who cuts the grass out of my own pocket rather than see him out on his @rse, mind.

 

[Doctor Gollum]

I believe that the Barcelona players voted to take a 70% pay cut last week. This was to ensure that the lower paid staff will still get their full wages.

Assuming an average premier league wage of £70,000, a 70% cut would leave them only £21000 each week. That seems hardly fair on your average 20-25 year old. How is he supposed to live.

Well, they aren't allowed out any more, so there's that...

£21kbuys alot of Domino's pizza and X box games

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I believe that the Barcelona players voted to take a 70% pay cut last week. This was to ensure that the lower paid staff will still get their full wages.

Assuming an average premier league wage of £70,000, a 70% cut would leave them only £21000 each week. That seems hardly fair on your average 20-25 year old. How is he supposed to live.

Well, they aren't allowed out any more, so there's that...

£21kbuys alot of Domino's pizza and X box games

£21000 of Pizza in a week means they would be too fat to run around when it's time to kick a ball again.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Effectively some premier league clubs are demonstrating a dismissive 'f*uck you' attitude to their low paid staff while simultaneously arse-licking the players.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Just for Opti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrrP2nCrDfE

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Just for Opti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrrP2nCrDfE

Now that is far more funny than Little and Large.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

NWS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwedcm9WPzk

He is the same fella who threw all the fake money at Sepp Blatta and got into the Tory press conference and handed Theresa a P45.

[LC0112G]

Effectively some premier league clubs are demonstrating a dismissive 'f*uck you' attitude to their low paid staff while simultaneously arse-licking the players.

What they are doing is 'protecting' their most skilled and valuable assets at the expense of the easily replaced and low skilled assets.

Which is exactly the dilemma NHS doctors are going to have to face once the number of patients requiring intensive care treatment equals the number of available ICU beds +1

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Effectively some premier league clubs are demonstrating a dismissive 'f*uck you' attitude to their low paid staff while simultaneously arse-licking the players.

What they are doing is 'protecting' their most skilled and valuable assets at the expense of the easily replaced and low skilled assets.

Which is exactly the dilemma NHS doctors are going to have to face once the number of patients requiring intensive care treatment equals the number of available ICU beds +1

That is what I said......only I don't think it is a good way to act.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Effectively some premier league clubs are demonstrating a dismissive 'f*uck you' attitude to their low paid staff while simultaneously arse-licking the players.

What they are doing is 'protecting' their most skilled and valuable assets at the expense of the easily replaced and low skilled assets.

Which is exactly the dilemma NHS doctors are going to have to face once the number of patients requiring intensive care treatment equals the number of available ICU beds +1

Also, eleven overpaid kids kicking a ball about on a piece of grass are far from being irreplaceable. They are easily replaced.

[STEMO]

Effectively some premier league clubs are demonstrating a dismissive 'f*uck you' attitude to their low paid staff while simultaneously arse-licking the players.

What they are doing is 'protecting' their most skilled and valuable assets at the expense of the easily replaced and low skilled assets.

Which is exactly the dilemma NHS doctors are going to have to face once the number of patients requiring intensive care treatment equals the number of available ICU beds +1

Also, eleven overpaid kids kicking a ball about on a piece of grass are far from being irreplaceable. They are easily replaced.

No.

[STEMO]

 A football club with no footballers. Seems like a good plan. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

A football club with no footballers. Seems like a good plan. 

Footballers tend to be fit young men with 2 legs.

They are everywhere. Common as muck.

[New POD]

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.