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Roma chief executive Guido Fienga has praised his players’ “superb gesture” after they volunteered to forgo four months’ salary to help the club during the coronavirus pandemic.
The players, manager Paulo Fonseca and his staff will also pay the difference to ensure all club staff placed on furlough receive their full salary.
Led by captain Edin Dzeko, the team and Fonseca approached Roma’s hierarchy.
“We always talk about unity at Roma,” said Fienga.
“In volunteering to cut their salaries for the rest of the season, the players, the coach and his staff, have all proved that we really are in this together.
“Edin Dzeko, all the players and Paulo have demonstrated they understand what this club stands for and we also thank them all for their superb gesture towards the employees at this club.”
Roma have not played since 1 March, just days before the Serie A season was postponed.
In a letter to Fienga, the players said: “We players are ready to start playing as soon as possible, giving the maximum to achieve our goals, but we also realise that all this will not be enough to face the economic consequences of the current emergency.
“With the hope of doing something that will help the company to better restart the Roma project that we all share, we offer this financial proposal.”
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Good one Edin
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Brilliant gesture Adlab congrats to Dzeko and all the players and Coaching staff at Roma who are helping their Club like this.
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Exactly Pagan this eminated from a Question on Question Time when the person asking the question questioned whether Spurs should be furloughing their staff at taxpayers expense when they were paying their players the sums they were and Hancock response was the players should be funding the Spurs staff not the taxpayer.
I really don’t understand why anyone would disagree with that.
Of course anyone earning vast sums could take a cut and help out the NHS but that wasn’t the question it was solely about Spurs furloing their staff and using taxpayers money at the same time still paying their players the sums they were.
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Daniel Comili is on Sky saying pretty much the same thing Mav about transfer fees etc.
We’ve been here before Mav but if the Newcastle takeover goes through they will only be able to spend what they earn under FFP rules.
They can extend the Stadium build a new Academy and regenerate the area like City did but who they buy will still be restricted to what they earn.
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999…with the greatest of respect that’s rubbish. It’s not the players or the taxpayers who should be supporting the Spurs staff, it’s the club itself. These clubs make multi million £ profits. The players should support whomsoever they wish to support. As I said in my earlier post many of them support local foodbanks, the NHS or their local communities back in their homelands, like Salah and Mane as well as , I’m sure some of them supporting fellow workers at their club. If I was a player at Spurs, or Liverpool if it comes to that, I would want to be absolutely sure where my pay cut or whatever was going.
Blame the clubs not the players.
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Goosey… La Casa de Papel
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Hightown, yes it is the clubs that make the decisions, but quite how you tell someone you can’t afford to pay them their five or six hundred pounds a week and still give others two hundred thousand pound a week and still sleep at night is beyond me…..Pagan
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“Hightown, yes it is the clubs that make the decisions, but quite how you tell someone you can’t afford to pay them their five or six hundred pounds a week and still give others two hundred thousand pound a week and still sleep at night is beyond me…..Pagan”
Exactly Pagan!
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Brian, I’m very late but I wanted to offer my condolences at this sad time . I’m expecting the worst this week for a lad I’ve known for 62 years, stay strong mate ??????
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Exactly my point, chaps. The clubs CAN afford to pay the other other employees 5 or 600 per week. Look at the profits Spurs and my team made last year. It was pathetic penny pinching by the clubs
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Hightown, reflecting on the post above from WTPL in times like this let’s try and keep it friendly disagree by all means but no need to tell a fellow poster he’s posting rubbish.
The question posed on Question Time if my memory serves me correctly was to do with Spurs furloughing their staff whilst paying their players hundreds of thousands of £’s a week and was that right.
That’s where all this eminated from.
Broadening out to the millions of £’s Clubs who looked to furlough players make in profit I wouldn’t disagree the Club’s should be taking care of their staff not the players fortunately that’s the way it ultimately went. Cheers 9’s
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Hightown, not all clubs make a profit, and without match day revenue they’re really going to struggle, I still think that the highest paid employees at those clubs should do something to make sure that the lowest paid members of the club and the club itself are looked after, “we’re all in this together”……Pagan
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999…I prefaced my post with ‘all due respect’ and I meant it.
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Pagan…Spurs and Liverpool made enormous profits, and as I understand it, the furore was about them. The likes of Brighton, Bournemouth and Norwich do not pay their players £200k a week.
My point is that players can support who they want. If I were a player I would want to support the food banks etc rather than people who SHOULD never be put in a difficult situation by these cash rich clubs. The food banks, the African villagesand the nurses etc do not have the support networks that these employees of Spurs and Liverpool should have had.
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Hightown, ok mate no worries. Cheers 9’s
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Nice one
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The clubs with the genuinely wealthy owners will or should do ok but there are not too many of those and in this climate they may not want to spend.
Some clubs like Spurs are very tight. Some (who shall be nameless) make very little profit and rely much on tv money and match revenue. Some have very large debt to service.
The finances of football will have to change certainly in the short term.
This talk STILL of clubs paying millions for players at this time is nonsense. The world is in a huge recession getting deeper each week but we hear little of that. Fans will have much less spending power. There will be substantial unemployment for some months maybe years. And still the press talk about millions in transfers and fees. Its nonsense.
Players who are multi millionaires should wake up to this too. If the lose a couple of months salary will it make a big difference to them. Perhaps the WAGS can dye their hair less or do nails less or spend less on handbags and cars.
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Hightown, football clubs like all sports clubs are more than Just a business, they’re part of the community, and as such all those within them have a responsibility to it….Pagan
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If only that were still so Pagan, but that time is long gone I fear since we welcomed global billionaires to the game. It’s a business first and foremost. Call me cynical, but any acts done by the clubs for the community only ever tend to be done for PR reasons, not much else. The focus is now success on a global scale, not the local community. Will this crisis reset things a bit? Don’t count on it.
I often think the German model is one to look up to, and I note that several of their big clubs swiftly brought in pay cuts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52036612
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