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Go fuck yourselves FSG


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1 minute ago, lifetime fan said:


When you’re trying to use the likes of McDonalds, Mike Ashley or Phillip Green to justify your point...

 

You know your argument is morally bankrupt. 


My argument is that the state/government should take care of furloughed and unemployed workers from any business. (Democratic socialism)

 

As an employee I would not expect to get paid from my employer if I don’t work for a sustained period of time, but I would expect that the government pay me unemployment money based on the fact I pay tax and my employer pay tax.

 

Nothing else to see here.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Code said:


My argument is that the state/government should take care of furloughed and unemployed workers from any business. (Democratic socialism)

 

As an employee I would not expect to get paid from my employer if I don’t work for a sustained period of time, but I would expect that the government pay me unemployment money based on the fact I pay tax and my employer pay tax.

 

Nothing else to see here.

 

 


Wrong again. 
 

And a deliberate misuse of the term ‘socialism’. 
 

You’re having an absolute fucking mare here mate. 

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Time for the players to step up and prove this LFC family ethos really exists. 

 

I see the PFA have come out saying any cut in players wages will be s £200m loss to the tax man. 

 

LOL the sooner that band of scunbags are,disbanded the better. 

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I don't think it's a good look at at all and they will rightfully go back on it but football clubs in general don't make much profit so this was always going to be exploited. They seem to be held to a higher standard than other businesses and it's fairly ridiculous that they get more shit than others. 

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What companies are furloughing employees?

Virgin Atlantic was one of the first companies to take advantage of the government scheme, cutting flights by 80 per cent and requiring staff to take eight weeks of unpaid furlough, with the cost spread across six months’ salary. Budget airline easyJet followed suit: of its 9,000 workers, 4,000 are now on furlough (but under the government scheme).

Earlier this week, troubled retailer Mothercare furloughed 430 employees who were working in Boots ahead of a franchise deal. Pret a Manger opted in to the scheme to “keep paying all of 8,000 employees, despite the fact that our UK shops are not currently open”, according to chief executive Pano Christou. Pub chain Greene King confirmed pay and furlough arrangements for its 38,000 members while its establishments remain shut. 

Outsourcing firm Capita slashed £25 million from planned capital spending in response to the “unprecedented” situation, furloughed a number of its 40,000 UK employees, closed offices and temporarily cut the salaries of management and the board.

Hundreds of workers at EDF’s Hinkley Point C nuclear plant are being furloughed after the firm decided to cut the number of workers on site by more than half. And Aston Martin announced plans to furlough some workers after the coronavirus forced it to close factories in Gaydon and St Athan. 

It’s not just traditional businesses who are forcing their employees to take a pay cut in order to rescue their bottom lines. Newcastle United became the first Premier League club to put its staff on furlough, in a move to ensure the club’s survival ahead of a potential £345m takeover by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund. Tottenham Hotspur have followed suit, cutting all non-playing staff wages by 20 per cent and placing them on furlough “where appropriate” to cope with the financial crisis caused by the pandemic.

The business panic has even affected fintech unicorns. On Tuesday, challenger bank Monzo said that it would furlough up to 295 employees as it sought to manage costs during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a TechCrunch report. Starling Bank has put 41 staff on furlough and is topping up their salaries to make it 100 per cent.

 

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-furlough-scheme-job-protection

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1 hour ago, Code said:


My argument is that the state/government should take care of furloughed and unemployed workers from any business. (Democratic socialism)

That's no form of socialism. Except for something approaching a Soviet variety. In which case, it's not remotely democratic.

 

The state should - by diktat - cover the costs of corporations who can comfortably afford to cover their own?

 

The individuals in question are not unemployed. Nor were they threatened with unemployment. They were furloughed for a period by a profitable and wealthy employer during which that employer remains viable and even intends to return to profitable activity (even if that activity occurs behind closed doors). At the taxpayers' expense.

 

It's obscene from a socialist and a democratic perspective.

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2 hours ago, Code said:


It depends how the contracts are set up. If you are furloughed and get another job offer you can take that job as a normal employee, in fact you should take it if not you could lose unemployment money..
 

Imagine if the club furloughed Salah, Van Dijk, Mane etc and another club came in and offered them a job, they could take that job and we lose £500m.

 

They could furlough Lallana and other out of contract players (from 1st of June.) without any risk, unless there is something in their contract that specifically say we cant.

I might be wrong here but the golden rule is to cut back on your biggest debts first. If you rent a small house and own an expensive car and are paying for it on a monthly loan with a huge interest rate (and the repayment on this is 20 times higher than your rent) does it make sense to rent a smaller house first or to sell the car, pay off a huge slice of the loan and buy a cheap car for the time being?

 

Liverpool seem to have cut their rent expenses first leaving their huge expenses to slice their finances apart.

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25 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

That's no form of socialism. Except for something approaching a Soviet variety. In which case, it's not remotely democratic.

 

The state should - by diktat - cover the costs of corporations who can comfortably afford to cover their own?

 

The individuals in question are not unemployed. Nor were they threatened with unemployment. They were furloughed for a period by a profitable and wealthy employer during which that employer remains viable and even intends to return to profitable activity (even if that activity occurs behind closed doors). At the taxpayers' expense.

 

It's obscene from a socialist and a democratic perspective.


They are obviously threatened by unemployment.

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26 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

I might be wrong here but the golden rule is to cut back on your biggest debts first. If you rent a small house and own an expensive car and are paying for it on a monthly loan with a huge interest rate (and the repayment on this is 20 times higher than your rent) does it make sense to rent a smaller house first or to sell the car, pay off a huge slice of the loan and buy a cheap car for the time being?

 

Liverpool seem to have cut their rent expenses first leaving their huge expenses to slice their finances apart.


The players are assets, they have a combined worth of €1.4billion (£1.27bn), you dont put yourself in a position where they disappear for free.

 

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-squad-worth-more-man-17933316

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Code, despite a lot of differences Ive always liked you. You seem a genuine fella, all 72 of you but you are so wildly off the mark with this stance its unreal.

 

Watch a few Bill Shankly videos on YouTube and you might , just might understand why people are so pissed off. 

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54 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

The state should - by diktat - cover the costs of corporations who can comfortably afford to cover their own?

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It's obscene from a socialist and a democratic perspective.

And yet if you would suggest that the state should cover corporations who cannot comfortably afford to cover their own, then you are most likely punishing profitable organisations that feed tax money & sustainable jobs back into the system, and rewarding loss-making organisations that deprive the system of tax money. Times like these should be taken to reward frugal/savvy/self-sustaining businesses and not those who over-leveraged themselves to a fault.

 

LFC is a unique case because football is in the business of emotion/sentiment & there is probably not another club in the whole world where emotion is wound as tightly as with LFC, whereas easyJet/Virgin etc. are entirely utilitarian businesses with a price-based value. But the point I think Code is trying to make is that a rule be applied universally, and not only to companies outside of the direct public eye/mind, which is a sound one. People are fooling themselves if they do not think some major clubs will not be a great financial risk through this crisis - esp. if players continue to push back on pay-cuts (with some wage bills taking up to 65% of club revenues).

 

 

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At least they are topping up the last 20%, but they can fuck off treating "lower" level staff like this. Unfortunately the big rich bastards can get away with it. Over here Denmarks and one of the worlds richest men sacked 750 and send home 2500 on goverment pay. He refused to pay rent in 2000 of his stores. Luckily he's gotten into a shitstorm of epic proportions and have now at least agreed to pay rent for the next month so far.

 

I know he ain't making any Jack & Jones money or all his other Bestseller stores, but he is involved in all kind of others things that makes alot of money atm, especially a home delivery service. The fucker owns half of Scotland as well. 

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26 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Code, despite a lot of differences Ive always liked you. You seem a genuine fella, all 72 of you but you are so wildly off the mark with this stance its unreal.

 

Watch a few Bill Shankly videos on YouTube and you might , just might understand why people are so pissed off. 


I notice Barry Wom have made a lot of the same points as me in another thread. That makes me think Im not really that wrong.

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4 minutes ago, John102 said:

I see City have chosen today to announce they wont be doing the same as us.

 

The ongoing battle between the clubs continues.

Once City seen the shit reaction FSG got it was an easy decision for them to make.

id have thought Peter Moore and Tony Barrett would be pushing the owners to reverse the decision - be interesting to see if the club backtracks. 

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