Xinhua News Agency, London, April 6 (Reporter Zhang Wei) Premier League “leader” Liverpool announced on the 6th that they would not apply for temporary unemployment subsidies set up by the British government to deal with the new Crown pneumonia epidemic for club staff, and apologized for their previous decision to push employees to the government.
Last weekend, the “Red Army” announced that it would apply for government subsidies for about 200 employees, that is, the government should bear 80% of the wages of these temporary unemployed people, no more than 2,500 pounds per month. As the fifth club in the Premier League to make this decision, although Liverpool promised that they would make up the difference and make the monthly salaries of these employees consistent with those before, however, as the Champions League champion whose pre-tax profit exceeded 40 million pounds last year, Liverpool’s move still attracted disappointment.
Liverpool CEO Moore wrote to the fans on the official website on the 6th, saying, “We made a wrong decision last week and we are very sorry for it.” He said that the club’s will remains unchanged, that is, to protect all staff as much as possible and not to let everyone’s income be affected at this unprecedented moment, but now they promise to seek other solutions when they cannot play football matches and not to push employees to the government’s security plan.
Moore also stressed that although the club was in good economic condition before the epidemic crisis, it is now that the income has stopped and the expenditure continues. And “like almost all fields in society, we are facing great uncertainty and worries now and in the future”.
Carragher, a famous Liverpool resident, said that the initial decision of the “Red Army” made him very angry, “because people regard Liverpool as an example, while other clubs will imitate them”. Carragher also said that such a decision embarrassed many Liverpool supporters because Manchester United, Manchester City and Everton fans were laughing at Liverpool’s decision.