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The Price of Football

Player wage deferrals, Newcastle United takeover latest, and Ole's choice of words

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Business, Sports

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Kieran look at the English Football League and Professional Footballers' Association proposal that clubs defer up to 25% of players' wages in April because of the coronavirus pandemic, the latest on the Newcastle takeover, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's choice of words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the price of football the show that looks at the money behind the

0:13.7

beautiful game and maybe asking you for money if we're still indoors by September I'm

0:18.3

Kevin Day in an increasingly rural Norbury and a long way away 55 odd miles, odd even whatever.

0:27.7

I'm joined by the next chancellor of the extracurricular football finance expert

0:32.0

and lecturer at Liverpool University. Kiran McGuire, hello Kiran how are you?

0:35.6

I'm very good thank you Kevin. Good, that's a lovely for the benefit of listeners.

0:41.3

Kiran is wearing a rather garish pink shirt today, it's very nice. Well you can take the boy out of

0:45.8

Brighton but... Now coming up on today's show which is Thursday isn't it? It is Thursday Kiran,

0:52.8

isn't it? It's so very difficult to tell at the moment isn't it? It's Thursday,

0:56.9

it's coming up on today's show. The latest on the new castle takeover, more shenanigans in Scotland

1:02.8

I'm afraid and Ola Gunnar Solshar's controversial post-apocalypse transfer prediction.

1:11.6

Very controversial for a little fellow but first Kiran, this is big news the EFL and the PFA

1:18.4

have proposed that clubs differ up to 25% of players wages in April. Now does

1:26.6

differ in apply later payment or no payment? Later payment, presumably when clubs start to

1:35.6

generating come again the players will get the remainder of the pay packet. We certainly saw

1:42.3

in respect of leads when they negotiated with their owners that they would take effectively late

1:49.2

payment for pay for their wages but that would be supported slightly by effectively an interest

1:57.2

payment on the money that they weren't receiving on the due date in respect of perhaps their March or

2:02.7

April pay packets. So would this involve a separate contract or a contract with amendment? Would

2:08.8

it involve a date whereby they would be told that this is over and we can pay you from normally

2:15.1

from now on? I think they would try to keep it as vague as possible at present because there's

2:20.8

no indication as to when football is likely to return and clearly we can't have football players

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