| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff 16:49 - Mar 31 with 4821 views | this_charming_man |
Disgrace that they can pay players £100k a week but having to put £30k back office staff on furlough. Sh1t game we all follow |  |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 18:17 - Apr 1 with 1199 views | Bicester_North |
Premier League should be boycotted 100% | |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 18:28 - Apr 1 with 1190 views | UlsterBaz |
The actions of Newcastle & Tottenham are a disgrace quite frankly, and if the PFA don’t agree a cut or deferral in players’ wages it’s a massive PR blunder for football & particularly the Premier League.
There’s an interesting article in The Telegraph today about the PFA . You need a subscription to view it so its a copy and paste job rather than a simple link. Sorry it’s a bit long...
The Professional Footballers’ Association has been part-funding another sports organisation that has paid Gordon Taylor’s son and a PFA trustee thousands of pounds in consultancy fees.
The Telegraph understands that questions over a potential conflict of interest and how that has been handled will be raised to Sport Resolutions, who are currently conducting an independent review into the PFA.
As part of its statutory inquiry into the PFA, the Charity Commission are also now expected to consider its links with the Professional Players’ Federation (PPF).
“They would want to know the connection and how they handled any conflict of interests,” said Paul Martin, the head of the charity department at Wellers Law Group LLP.
The PPF is an umbrella organisation of 12 player associations, whose chief executive is Simon Taylor, Gordon’s son. The chairman of the PPF is Brendon Batson who, like Gordon Taylor, is also a PFA Charity trustee.
According to the accounts of the PPF, Simon Taylor has received between £46,000 and £56,000 each year in consultancy fees since 2015, peaking at £55,900 in the most recently published accounting year for 2018. Batson Sport Company Limited, of which Batson is a director, has also received consultancy fees of at least £10,000 from the PPF every year since 2011, peaking at £18,250 for 2018. Another director of the PPF is Simon Barker, who is also the current PFA deputy chief executive.
On behalf of the PPF, Simon Taylor told The Telegraph that it was the national federation for 12 different player organisations in the United Kingdom and that it aims to protect the collective interests of player associations in areas such as mental health, education and training, anti-doping and anti-match fixing.
It costs £650 a year to be a member association of the PPF but Simon Taylor said that the PFA, as well as PFA Scotland, the Professional Cricketers’ Association and the Professional Rugby Players’ Association, decided in 2005 “to make an additional contribution to the organisation which has allowed us to hire part-time consultants to help professionalise the organisation and develop it to further support its members”.
The PPF’s annual turnover has ranged between £134,750 and £177,493 in the last three published accounting years, with funds also coming from commercial sponsorship and charitable donations. It describes itself as a “not for profit body”.
Questions have also been raised over the role of Gareth Griffiths, another PFA Charity trustee. Griffiths co-founded and is managing director of a company called ProSport Wealth Management, which is an official partner of the PFA, endorsed by Gordon Taylor and listed as an ‘investment broker’ to the PFA Charity in its most recent accounts. It is also understood that Griffiths sits on the PFA’s business advisory committee, which sets Taylor’s salary.
The Telegraph revealed last month that Taylor’s salary, bonus and benefits as chief executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association have remained at more than £2 million in the most recent accounting year.
The PFA’s main source of income is a charitable donation from the Premier League, which totalled £24.75 million in the last accounting year.
However, more than half of its charity grants (£9.5 million out of £17.41m) went to Premier League and Football League youth development or community projects while the annual spending on benevolent payments to former players in need stood at £565,261.
As revealed by The Telegraph, the Charity Commission began looking at the PFA in November 2018 after concerns were raised about how Taylor’s salary was funded and the relationship between the PFA Charity and the trade union.
This escalated earlier this year into a regulatory inquiry, which is the commission’s most serious form of intervention. The commission has not yet reached any conclusion but did express “serious concerns” in January following their “extensive engagement” with the PFA.
As well as the charity’s relationship and transactions with other bodies and whether they are in the best interests of the charity, the commission will look at whether transactions have been exclusively charitable and for the public benefit and the administration, governance and management of the charity by the trustees.
It will also examine how conflicts of interest have been dealt with and managed, and whether there has been any unauthorised trustee benefit and whether or not the trustees have complied with and fulfilled their duties and responsibilities under charity law.
The PFA have said that their trustees have “continued to cooperate fully, openly and transparently with the commission and will continue to do so throughout this process”.
They also said that the trustees were “all committed to adopting the highest possible standards in administering, governing and the management of the charity and will continue to work with the Charity Commission”.
The PFA did not respond to specific questions about the PPF and ProSport Wealth Management. |  | | |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 18:56 - Apr 1 with 1173 views | Happy_Jack |
The reasons for not going have been building for years. These utter c unts live in a bubble and this should be the final straw for many hopefully. |  |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 19:13 - Apr 1 with 1155 views | this_charming_man |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 18:56 - Apr 1 by Happy_Jack |
The reasons for not going have been building for years. These utter c unts live in a bubble and this should be the final straw for many hopefully. |
unbeliveably on mongweb some people are actually defending it and say clubs have every right to take advantage of furlough as every business does. | |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 19:30 - Apr 1 with 1136 views | Heisenberg |
Well I won't be forking out any money on football when all this ends. |  |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 20:20 - Apr 1 with 1109 views | Bicester_North |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 19:13 - Apr 1 by this_charming_man |
unbeliveably on mongweb some people are actually defending it and say clubs have every right to take advantage of furlough as every business does. |
Some very sad helmets out there | |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 21:01 - Apr 1 with 1087 views | Capt_Koons |
Disgrace. Only word for it. Shame on those clubs , their owners, management, players and agents. |  |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 21:47 - Apr 1 with 1063 views | 1885_SFC |
Poor old Spurs. They made a profit of £68.6m, have a Bahamas-based owner worth £4bn, a chairman paid £7m, and players who, on average, earn £70,000 per week. |  |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 23:36 - Apr 1 with 1025 views | PatfromPoole |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 19:13 - Apr 1 by this_charming_man |
unbeliveably on mongweb some people are actually defending it and say clubs have every right to take advantage of furlough as every business does. |
Mmm, “Egg” seems to be a bit of a tool, doesn’t he? |  |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 08:26 - Apr 2 with 981 views | this_charming_man |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 23:36 - Apr 1 by PatfromPoole |
Mmm, “Egg” seems to be a bit of a tool, doesn’t he? |
He's normally alright and quite a bright bloke but has some weird ideas sometimes. [Post edited 2 Apr 2020 8:26]
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 09:01 - Apr 2 with 958 views | UlsterBaz |
Anyone who defends the actions of Spurs, Newcastle, Norwich and Bournemouth needs their head examined. | | | |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 16:35 - Apr 2 with 896 views | Bicester_North |
Lineker sticking up for Premier League players, what a surprise. What a cock | |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff (n/t) on 18:01 - Apr 2 with 859 views | DellHero |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 16:35 - Apr 2 by Bicester_North |
Lineker sticking up for Premier League players, what a surprise. What a cock |
[Post edited 9 May 2020 20:17]
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 20:07 - Apr 2 with 813 views | this_charming_man |
Has he or was it more than a coincidence this came out after the bad press yesterday about them refusing to pay the families putting up their academy players? | |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 16:46 - Apr 4 with 720 views | this_charming_man |
Liverpool at it now
C*nts | |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 16:55 - Apr 4 with 712 views | Saintsforeverj |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 16:46 - Apr 4 by this_charming_man |
Liverpool at it now
C*nts |
Yep, so we have to pay for Mane, VD, Lallana etc from our taxes. This is a club that turns over hundreds of millions and we know they could afford to pay these staff. Disgraceful. But Liverpool are discraceful full stop arnt they. Man United taking a completely different approach. But we could guess what Liverpool would do. Horrible club, fans and everything about them, always said that and it's true. [Post edited 4 Apr 2020 16:57]
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 17:15 - Apr 4 with 697 views | this_charming_man |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 16:55 - Apr 4 by Saintsforeverj |
Yep, so we have to pay for Mane, VD, Lallana etc from our taxes. This is a club that turns over hundreds of millions and we know they could afford to pay these staff. Disgraceful. But Liverpool are discraceful full stop arnt they. Man United taking a completely different approach. But we could guess what Liverpool would do. Horrible club, fans and everything about them, always said that and it's true. [Post edited 4 Apr 2020 16:57]
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6 weeks ago they announced a £42m profit. Absolute sh1t houses taking the p1ss. | |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 19:56 - Apr 4 with 616 views | Butty101 |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 15:05 - Apr 1 by City_boy |
Ironic that Gordon Taylor advocating not to take advantage of the situation, after milking a nice salary from PFA for years !
All premiership clubs should pay non playing staff during this crisis. It stinks that some clubs implementing a furlough. |
See the bin dippers are the latest club to furlough non playing staff. |  |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 20:45 - Apr 4 with 591 views | Bicester_North |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 19:56 - Apr 4 by Butty101 |
See the bin dippers are the latest club to furlough non playing staff. |
How can this be when they are the pillar of dignity and class in football? | |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 21:16 - Apr 4 with 578 views | cocklebreath |
Yeah other than Yan Valery I think they’d get by. |  |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 23:38 - Apr 4 with 542 views | Gennaro_Contaldo |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 17:15 - Apr 4 by this_charming_man |
6 weeks ago they announced a £42m profit. Absolute sh1t houses taking the p1ss. |
I hope the premier league goes bust. |  |
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| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 07:46 - Apr 5 with 505 views | JaySaint |
| Tottenham and Newcastle furlough non playing staff on 23:38 - Apr 4 by Gennaro_Contaldo |
I hope the premier league goes bust. |
horrible isnt it.
What makes it worse, is the fans backing each of their own clubs as they announce it. No doubt many of our fans will do the same should we go down this route.
Throw in pundits and reporters also protecting their industry on this.
Strange how this is not an issue so much in Spain, Germany and Italy | |
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