The OFFICIAL Liverpool FC thread - #DankeJürgen

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Ye can call a spade a spade while still supportin a team. On the face of it seems like v poor form.

Be a pile of other billionaires take advantage so hope they all get the same abuse as what Henry and co will get..

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Says everything you need to know about Liverpool and many other Premier League clubs. Businesses. Profit. That's all they care about. Everything is about the bottom line.

[Milltown Row2]

They'll be on a long list of multi million pound businesses that'll avail of the 80% payments.

But if they had have looked at their business model and planned for a pandemic (cause we all knew Bill told us three years ago) and put some savings away like one poster had up then they'd be fine!

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They'll be on a long list of multi million pound businesses that'll avail of the 80% payments.

But if they had have looked at their business model and planned for a pandemic (cause we all knew Bill told us three years ago) and put some savings away like one poster had up then they'd be fine!

The problem is they can afford to pay players 100k, or 200k a week and yet furlough some girl on 25k a year. It's a f**king disgrace.

[Geoff Tipps]

Terrible decision to avail of this scheme. Just because they can doesn't mean they should. FSG have got so much right on and off the field but have been badly advised here. Hopefully like the ticket hike fiasco they'll perform a U turn.

[glens73]

Why shouldn’t they avail of the scheme? They’re topping up to 100% so the staff aren’t losing out and the tories are footing the bill for the rest

[glens73]

They'll be on a long list of multi million pound businesses that'll avail of the 80% payments.

But if they had have looked at their business model and planned for a pandemic (cause we all knew Bill told us three years ago) and put some savings away like one poster had up then they'd be fine!

The problem is they can afford to pay players 100k, or 200k a week and yet furlough some girl on 25k a year. It's a f**king disgrace.

The staff aren't losing out. To be fair to the players, Jordan Henderson (at the very least) has organised all the PL captains to put monies towards the nhs.

[bennydorano]

Poor form, Getting slaughtered on Twitter. The catastrophic PR will lead to a u turn.

[David McKeown]

Sad to see Liverpool's billionaire owners joining the other shitehawk owners in looking for the government to pay their way for them in this time of crisis. Amazingly Utds have resisted so far, won't last I'd say..

Absolute joke...

I imagine this will not go down well with the majority of Liverpool fans...

Surely there is a rule in play that can prevent PL clubs from participating in this scheme....

I'm glad there isn't. For I fear the clubs that use the scheme likely wouldn't just lay off large amounts of their staff were the scheme not in place.

[glens73]

Sad to see Liverpool's billionaire owners joining the other shitehawk owners in looking for the government to pay their way for them in this time of crisis. Amazingly Utds have resisted so far, won't last I'd say..

Absolute joke...

I imagine this will not go down well with the majority of Liverpool fans...

Surely there is a rule in play that can prevent PL clubs from participating in this scheme....

I’m glad there isn’t. For I fear the clubs that use the scheme likely wouldn’t just lay off large amounts of their staff were the scheme not in place.

Exactly, that’s the whole point of the scheme. Why is it right that Mike Ashley, Richard Branson, Philip Green, Stelios from EasyJet et al avail of the scheme but not football clubs??

[Milltown Row2]

What profits would Liverpool be making yearly?

[glens73]

What profits would Liverpool be making yearly?

£29m last year, a lot less than global corporations availing of the scheme

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Why shouldn't they avail of the scheme? They're topping up to 100% so the staff aren't losing out and the tories are footing the bill for the rest

Eh, because the ordinary tax payer will have to pay this money back. Liverpool and others can afford to pay staff without making the taxpayer do it.
It stinks.

[glens73]

Why shouldn't they avail of the scheme? They're topping up to 100% so the staff aren't losing out and the tories are footing the bill for the rest

Eh, because the ordinary tax payer will have to pay this money back. Liverpool and others can afford to pay staff without making the taxpayer do it.
It stinks.

So can loads of companies availing of this scheme, it doesn't just sit with football

[Saffrongael]

What profits would Liverpool be making yearly?

£29m last year, a lot less than global corporations availing of the scheme

£42m profit announced a few weeks ago