- Former England captain Wayne Rooney said the public pressure being exerted on elite footballers to take pay cuts in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is a “disgrace”, according to a report in the Sunday Times.
Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock said last week that Premier League players should take pay cuts and the Premier League said clubs were in talks over a 30% reduction.“First the health secretary ... said Premier League players should take a pay cut. Was he desperate to divert attention from his government’s handling of this pandemic?,” he added.
“It feels as if it’s to shame the players — to force them into a corner where they have to pick up the bill for lost revenue,” he wrote.Football in England has been suspended indefinitely due to the outbreak and several clubs, including Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur, have furloughed non-playing staff.
The only disgrace I see is the football players being payed millions when thousands and thousands of people have been laid off with no pay at all. Covid_19
Poor thing!
How about supporting the stadium staff and their families who make you look good. Somebody has to cut the grass
Gucken mal Kurzarbeit. Rooney soll auch selbst rechnen.
He’s right. Owners can pay up too
Rooney is complaining because player income will be reduced owing to reduced club revenues. Welcome to the real world - where does he think think the cash that pays player salaries comes from?
Oh dear.
As such all footballers are an employee on a contract. All employees are taking a % pay reduction negotiated with their employer, their employers agree what that will be.
There are a lot of people who are not earning their full salary right now, so how are they entitled more so than anyone else?
Hey WayneRooney footballers can get their 100% wage packet, if the promise to donated 80% to charity and 10% to help groundstaff. How about that? Answer to BBCNews SkyNews Channel4News itvnews FootballFurlough FootballersPayCut COVID19
Net worth 160million.. About 160million reasons why this idiot is tone deaf
They need the money for hookers
he seems like the charitable type to me
Bye bye $$ footbal players
cut their salary by 75%..
WTFever. taking a cut on multi-million contracts. We should all be shedding elephant tears for poor pro athletes instead of people who barely making ends meet. Yea ok.
If you read the article it says Rooney thinks some players can and should take a bigger pay cut than others. Is the Royal family giving back any of their “hard earned” wealth to help out here?
What gives the government the right to target a single industry and why are they so desperate to lose the tax that they will no longer collect on these earnings. I think Rooney is right that it's a deflection technique but the UK government. Support the NHS and pay more tax.
The don't have to take a pay-cut but if not DO NOT expect the Government to pay for your other staff!
Oh STOP 🛑 some people have zero income ... go back to your room
What planet does he live on? “One player might say he can only afford 5%...”? That 5% could probably pay a nurse for a month. I see them in the exact same light as all others in the excessively overpaid category that capitalism has produced. Do what you can and shut up.
why pick on footballers? what about actors, singers, comedians, TV presenters....
Whining prat.
Don’t play. No team , no play.
I agree.
'i can kick a ball, i deserve millions' meanwhile in a hospital near you, a doctor, nurse, and hospital staff have to ration masks and are paid just enough within the living wage risking their lives daily
Imagine 200 300 k a week for only kicking the ball only kicking that ball nothing els
Oh my God what a outrage hope my EI cheque comes in this week need groceries.
Wayne Rooney, soon to be stand up artist.
Hair transplants and Ferraris don’t pay for themselves people
It turns out he is a disgrace. So sad that where he could lead he has caused hate and derision
Sure. The poor lates do need all the money they can get for their expensive lifestyle. What would a family father say who lost his job? Right! Throw this spoiled players into the next river!
The billionares get no cuts but the ones under them do
You could cut premier league players wages by 50% I think they might just survive, maybe better than some of the football clubs
Qui est son barbier ? Ça doit le faire pour la moustache et les cheveux ?
To be fair to Rooney he is only defending what he thinks is right after all”hookers and whores” aren’t cheap ask his wife.
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Agree with Rooney. Industries and ministers need to set a criteria for who should take paycuts dependent on sustainability. Not just football. Tennis, golf, F1, etc and billionaires too
Just broke down his salary. £300 an hour. £7,000 roughly a day. £200,000 a month and £2.6mil a year. I think he’s got enough money. Net worth is £100mil
Anyone earning obscene amounts of money while those working on the frontline are holding society together on subsistence wages should hang their heads. It's time for a reckoning.
Greedy uneducated lout!! Wouldnt expect anything less!!
Disgrace is to have these lowlifes of sportsmen thinking they deserve the huge salaries they get. We don’t need them for shit. I hope they fire them all!
So now we should take cognissance of the 'blathering' of this trumped up a.h. Give me strength!!!
In a way he’s right but y’all not even play football man ? Normally, u need to get nada but they will give %70 of salary.
WayneRooney is basically saying there should be less focus on footballers. So less TV, less money for them. Good.
All of this quotes will be remembered for years to come and eventually everyone will realize how unimportant and overpaid these people are,if they really give a shit about the beautiful game,they should put together a fund to help lower leagues who could be bankrupt
£330k per week I’d struggle 🤡
Why is it a disgrace . Best keep your trap shut here pal. U are on a no win
Cometh the hour, cometh the man!
Not a time for defending this. Rooney should let it play out [excuse the pun]. Morally, and hopefully, these high earning players will find the correct solution to helping the nation, the NHS or their clubs in these difficult circumstances.
I love watching people who make millions a year complain when, In an unprecedented emergency, they are asked to help the greater good and make only a few million less a year and instead. That’s a disgrace.
All MPs and senior civil servants have taken a pay cut, why shouldn't footballers?
Not sure anyone is bothered about footballer pay at this time.
Perhaps he would prefer if they were furloughed and got 80% or £2500 a month like all the other poor sods out there.
He wants to keep his money for doing nothing, while the ground staff, the people who prepare the grounds and training pitches so that he can have his millionaire lifestyle, get laid off and have to claim UniversalCredit. He is a Disgrace to humanity
They should not be making 7 figure salaries anyway!!!
Cries millionaire who's has a perchant for grannies. 🙄
The fact that you players earn that much has been always a disgrace. It is still and it will be.
They are only obsessed with their fkn money
People show who they are in hard moments like this !!
Oh nooooo... my heart bleeds.
How did he think they got paid, 💕 lovedollars they shouldn’t be at all, they are selfish greedy
For fūck sake stop calling it soooccor
A lot of people don't seem to get that not all players are multi millionaires and are often in the same cycle of paycheck to paycheck. Granted with higher outgoings but they aren't all sitting on piles of cash.
as much as I believe players are paid too much , there is a reason for that , globally Football is such a big industry so in terms of how big it is it fits in , but would someone living comfortably having a couple of holidays a year happily give away 30 percent of their earnings
Has to be corrected in some way. Players salaries are and were out of control. Doctors and nurses who saves lives don’t make nearly close to what players make. Sports vs saving lives, I think you yourself WayneRooney can answer that. Correction was very much needed.
Gee, First of all they said deferred Second he’s just another whiny-ass pro athlete. Do your part or there may be no game to go back to. In retrospect, are we losing anything at all if soccer doesn’t come back. I’ll go to a dog park if I want to watch bitches roll in the grass.
Rooney is right- it shld not JUST be footballers but ALL with very high pay, which has rocketed in recent years, and not related to productivity or merit. Even arch Tory Ken Clarke agrees! Cut 40% off salaries- excess over £80k to re-balance economy. wato ridge marr
I had WayneRooney at a club I work with minimum spending! Hes table was 3grand, the guy tipped me 0 percent, not even a thank you just drunk vodka coke and looked like a fucking moron!
Wanker!
Sounds about white
I’m not a football fan but I’m definatly on his side, why should he take a pay cut. Each person has someone poorer than themselves in essence your saying we should all take a pay cut in accordance to the next person who less fortunate than what you earn. stupididea
So the media get us all to think about 30% of 1.5 billion pounds! Better than thinking about 35 billion tax evasion. Funny that 😂
Wow! Rooney, with the generous hair-plant (on his head).
Tosser
‘We’re all in this together’.. is coming to mind. Be careful Wayne - you don’t want to be lumped in with Geffen.
I honestly think he makes a fair point, this should not be allowed to happen. If it was to happen to an ordinary bloke it's not fair but to a millionaire it's fine? 🤷🏾♂️. People should change professions instead of being jealous of other people's incomes.
He was never a humble or intelligent human even when he figured how to kick a ball. Trump material
Cue frantic call from hysterical PR agent
Oh boo hoo. I have zero sympathy.
Time to land on planet earth!
Rooney's an idiot. However, he always was. An anesthesiologist should not earn less than a glamorous football player.
Damn they only get 5 mil instead of 10? Or 500,000 instead of 1 mil, or 2 mil i stead of 4? Dang man they are suffering...fuck the average joe and their complaints. 🧐🤨
He would...
“Oh no whatever shall I do with 6 million instead of 9 million” - rich footballers who don’t understand they’re still making a shit ton of money
Take a pay cut and help the clubs out. It’s easy.
The disgrace is their greed.
His view is definitely not clouded by his $160 million net worth
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