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Coronavirus: These Blues who lowered their wages

2020-03-29T16:18:24.879Z


As world football has been stopped for several weeks, several internationals have agreed to reduce their remuneration in the face of the financial danger posed by the health crisis.


The announcement made a big splash as it testifies to the exemplarity demanded by the situation. Saturday, Juventus, in the heart of a health crisis that affects Italy in unsuspected proportions, announced that the entire workforce - players and staff combined - agreed to a drop of 30% in their annual salary. A drastic drop that simply includes four months of wages (March to June 2020). Thus, Blaise Matuidi, himself affected by the Coronavirus, and Adrien Rabiot see part of their salary sacrificed then when football is stopped.

Nota della società | Intesa con calciatori e allenatore della prima squadrahttps: //t.co/mkJEh7QhmQpic.twitter.com/PXeiYQlNGq

- JuventusFC (@juventusfc) March 28, 2020

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Bavarians and Catalans follow the example

The cases of the two internationals are however far from isolated. In Barcelona, ​​at the cost of negotiations between the dressing room and the management of a club plagued by financial problems, the players agreed to a "proportional reduction of the remuneration provided for in the respective contracts" as we can read in an official press release from the club. Consequently, Antoine Griezmann, Ousmane Dembélé, Samuel Umtiti and Clément Lenglet are all concerned. In the same way as Thomas Lemar on the side of Atletico Madrid where the players have unanimously renounced part of their fees to believe the information from the Cadena Cope . In Germany, where there is no shortage of demonstrations of club support in these times of crisis, Benjamin Pavard, Lucas Hernandez, Corentin Tolisso and Kinglsey Coman are no exception since the locker room at Bayern Munich would have agreed to reduce their remuneration by 20% until 'at the end of the season, or 10% if matches were to resume behind closed doors as Bild reports.

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Premier League may follow

In PSG, if President Nasser Al-Khelaïfi said he was in favor of lower wages, Kylian Mbappé, Presnel Kimpembe and other Layvin Kurzawa see their gross salary reduced by 30%, a measure of partial unemployment requires, like Léo Dubois in Lyon or Steve Mandanda, Dimitri Payet and Florian Thauvin in Marseille. At Real Madrid, where we find Raphaël Varane, Ferland Mendy and Alphonse Aréola, no communication has yet been made on the subject, any more than at Manchester United where Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial are also in the waiting to return to the meadow, as well as captain Hugo Lloris, Moussa Sissoko and Tanguy Ndombélé with Tottenham. No doubt that as the health crisis continues, some Blues will follow the example of their counterparts in Turin and Bavaria. In this regard, the Guardian understands that Premier League clubs should quickly rule on a collective drop in wages for players in the most lucrative championship on the planet.

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Source: lefigaro

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