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Quote from: DeathAngel on April 21, 2020, 03:10:42 PM

A high number of deaths has been reported in the last 24 hours in the UK. The season will be completed but it’s going to be at least 6 weeks before a ball is kicked & 100% it will all be behind closed doors. At least it’ll be on TV for us.

Nowadays, It's nothing but lifescores instead of Livescores as I've been familiar with for the almost the entirety of my adulthood, Honestly, It's tiring!!!

Ozil's has been receiving massive criticism from various parties the latest being Piers Morgan ¹, after Ozil along with a very few Arsenal players refused the new 12.5% pay cut proposed by the club ², The players initially rejected the trending 30% pay cut and the 12.5% cut is the lowest I've read about from a club and I believed shouldn't have been a problem for any of the players, at least not the club's highest paid player.

1. https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1252477468860129281
2. https://www.goal.com/en/news/arsenal-agree-12-5-per-cent-pay-cut-coronavirus-crisis/rfk2h4wjaxlu1tqitrkt1ffoi

For some people a contract is a contract.

Would they have added 10% if it was some amazing thing instead of a disaster? unlikely

Footballers still need to make all their career in a few years also.

We can discuss everything but pointing a single guy out so many players in several teams is disgusting imo. Here is what said in the article:

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In fact, given Arsenal are one of only a handful of clubs to have announced a widespread agreement of pay cuts, there are hundreds of Premier League players across the country - some of which earn more than Ozil - who also have not agreed yet to waive any of their wages. Yet it is Arsenal’s No.10 who is now being painted as the poster boy for all that is wrong with football

I don't know the long term financial situation, projects, planned activities/charity/... of Ozil or any other football players, so i can judge them correctly. Contracts are contracts, you agreed on it, you assume it. However, in such bad circumstances teams have the right to discuss a cut and players have the right to accept, reject or negotiate it...
Their salaries allow them to have an extra level of life, spending... I don't think their landlords (if they don't have a castle already) will forgive them for not paying, same goes for other bills (medic, electricity...). This argument may be available for relatively new players.
For me, their salaries are crazy but that is another story!