Spurs ask Mauricio Pochettino to take pay cut during coronavirus lockdown

mawspurs · Apr 17, 2020

Tottenham are in talks with their former manager Mauricio Pochettino over reduction in his £8.5million-a-year salary, five months after he was sacked.

Source: Evening Standard

BTN1 · Apr 17, 2020

We really do lack class atm!

Gassin's finest · Apr 17, 2020

stov · Apr 17, 2020

Embarrassing.

LeParisien · Apr 17, 2020

Completely normal.

By all means froth at the mouth and leave me a bad rating but have the class to explain why. I’d like to think Poch was classy enough to agree.

wooderz · Apr 17, 2020

Absolute bollocks. He was sacked which is an early termination of his contract. That contract will have an early termination clause which has to be paid up. The club can afford it

Shadydan · Apr 17, 2020

Perfect story for the media to put up a sensationalist headline and fans happily to jump all over without reading the article or take it completely out of context purely so suit an anti Levy narrative, it never ceases to amaze me the amount of times people will just happily use confirmation bias purely for some petty agenda.

JCRD · Apr 17, 2020

Furlough?

Dougal · Apr 17, 2020

Spurs publicly ask Poch to take a pay cut. And by the way, we’ll be making money from a documentary which starts showing us sacking you. You can watch it during your reduced pay period.

DCSPUR · Apr 17, 2020

Seriously why should Poch agree to give up some of his money? There is absolutely no one on this forum who would do so if they were in that position. Forget the on the field stuff but he created the platform that facilitated Levy's stadium plans/ bond issue and more. Increased this billion pound + asset for a multi millionaire and a multi billionaire. If he wants to make an impact, take some money and give it to front line charities in the UK, Spain, Argentina and Paris (places suffering and where he has a connection).

KingKay · Apr 17, 2020

It's quite clearly restructuring the payments, but i suppose that doesn't make good headlines. Obvious clickbait to get people rattled; hook, line and sinker every time.

When did people become so determined to be outraged by football all the time?

yankspurs · Apr 17, 2020

We really do have an affinity for PR calamities. You just can't help but laugh at it.

Japhet · Apr 17, 2020

Why should he? It's a compensation package for being turfed out and there are plenty of string attached to protect the club.

wrd · Apr 17, 2020

I think the club are well within their rights to explore all possible avenues to try and get us financially through this period and I don’t think it hurts to ask. So long as we accept that Poch is also well within his rights to reject any changes should want to then I don’t see an issue.

fortworthspur · Apr 17, 2020

they are just asking him to take reduced payments at the moment, not an overall reduction. why should he? if the club declares bankruptcy he gets nothing. Levy and Lewis wont pay him out of their pockets, nor should they.

ShaunL84 · Apr 17, 2020

Wage deferral, title is misleading.

kr1978 · Apr 17, 2020

wooderz said:
Absolute bollocks. He was sacked which is an early termination of his contract. That contract will have an early termination clause which has to be paid up. The club can afford it

He wasn’t sacked, he was “relieved of his duties” and is still employed by Spurs, unusual way of doing things but quite clever approach for a manager who is not likely to be out of work long

pagevee · Apr 22, 2020

mawspurs said:
Tottenham are in talks with their former manager Mauricio Pochettino over reduction in his £8.5million-a-year salary, five months after he was sacked.

Source: Evening Standard

Shocking news, the Evening Standard is taking the opportunity to negatively report on THFC but is using the government furlough scheme themselves. I looked at the article and was unable to find a disclaimer that the media company reporting about the club cutting costs is also using a government funded furlough program to reduce their own costs. I don't think I missed the disclaimer.

Hot off the presses, the club is talking to ALL members of the players/coaches unions who are ACTIVELY receiving a wage about deferrals. The club change the pay ONLY if the other party agrees to the change. The club is not illegally forcing a payment change/breaking the contract by asking the other party to consider the current change in environment/GLOBAL PANDEMIC.

So freaking what, why should Poch not be asked? NONE of the people actively receiving payment for coaching/playing are actually actively playing/coaching in order to earn their wage currently. The club is not forcing him to accept a change of payment, they are asking him to consider it. Not asking Poch & his staff would be irresponsible; especially if those deferrals allow DL to continue to pay lower earning employees at 100% wages rather than furlough...

You cannot make the moral arguments against the furlough wage cuts and then act as if it is immoral to ask Poch & staff to defer some/all of their payments. Poch & staff can say no to the deferrals if they wish. It is their right to say no to the deferrals AND it is the right of THFC to request that all contracted high-wage individuals consider a deferral/reduction of payments options during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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