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Originally Posted by Nicky91

these footballers would keep their full salaries, while in other sports lower ranked players struggle financially (made a thread in sports section btw about that)

reduce those salaries at least half, here in our dutch football clubs also gotta do that, in serie a from top team Juventus also many players had reduced their salaries in this time of crisis

Barcelona did the same too for their men's and women's teams

I imagine part of the problem is probably a legal challenge though. These big players aren't salaried in the traditional sense, they sign a specific contract for a set amount over a set time period... If the club goes outwith the terms of the contract, the contract is broken and the player is free to go elsewhere.

Technically that applies to salary renegotiations too but the big difference is that a large chunk of "big name" players money is given as a signing fee which they wouldn't have to give back.

Now of course... If these multi-millionaire players are not complete and utter dicks, they should be happy to have the salaried club staff paid wages out of their money. If a couple of them banded together they could probably pay the salaries themselves quite comfortably.