Former England captain Wayne Rooney says pressure on elite footballers to accept proposed 30 percent pay cuts is a 'disgrace'
Former England football team captain Wayne Rooney pens impassioned column in Sunday Times newspaper, arguing his fellow professionals were"easy targets" in pay cut proposal in response to coronavirus crisis.
The former England captain, now playing with Championship side Derby, penned an impassioned column in thesaying his fellow professionals were "easy targets" in the wider response to the coronavirus crisis. "If the government approached me to help support nurses financially or buy ventilators I'd be proud to do so –– as long as I knew where the money was going," wrote Rooney.
"In my opinion, it is now a no-win situation," he said. "Whatever way you look at it, we're easy targets."England defender Danny Rose, on loan at Newcastle from Tottenham, told the BBC players were "keen to make something happen". "Taking a 30 percent salary deduction will cost the Exchequer a substantial sum," it said. "This would be detrimental to our NHS and other government-funded services."A handful of top-flight clubs, including last year's Champions League finalists Liverpool and Tottenham, have opted to furlough non-playing staff using the safety net of the government's job retention scheme.
"The PL are handling the CV crisis terribly," he wrote on Twitter, before outlining a checklist of perceived missteps including their slowness in imposing a lockdown and the "PR disaster" of furloughing.
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