Jordan Henderson

[Norbs]

You can choose who you want to furlough.

But they cannot in anyway be involved in business activities on any level for the three months.

My wife has not been furloughed but her team have been. If PG is entitled to furlough his staff then so are LFC. It doesn’t sit well with me with either doing it.

I’ll not boycott or anything though. If anything this period has shown to me what an amazing life distraction watching sport is.

Maybe it varies but it's 3 weeks not months, at a minimum, I hope, as I'm furloughed too! That said, I'd love 3 months off

Thanks for clearing it up though.

I think the footballers thing is being used as an example, the most extreme disparity between highest and lowest earners, and I hope it will roll out to everyone.

Don't you think say a 60% tax rate above a set level would be fair in the short term? Not just for footballers obviously

[Rigadon]

It's sad that it's taken a crisis (where some people are directly effected) for the inequality between high and low earners to be considered a problem. If only a party leader had considered this prior to the last election. He'd have been a winner.

Still think the UK government is using footballers salaries to deflect from their own shortcomings.

[RichC]

A stepped increase in tax over certain thresholds would be fair and sensible imo.

Pointing fingers at footballers and saying how they should take a pay cut was a cheap point scoring exercise

[Norbs]

What's sad is that our squad didn't get together and make the decision to support their colleagues without there having to be an intervention.

Re: it's taken something like this, I think many of us had wanted more fairness in the workplace prior to this but this has just brought it to the forefront. Germany's policy of capping a company's highest earner is a great idea but the guys at the top will take dividends or options instead. Kicking the greed out of the richest in order to create a fairer society may be something that is positive that comes out of this. Won't hold my breath though

[Mr Pink]

And yes, the same model should be adopted throughout the entire workforce of this country. 30% of unfurloughed earners over £150k to alleviate the pressure on the government. We're in this together apparently

Why only people earning over £150k? Why not everyone then, if ya want us to all be in this together?

[ChesterDave]

Why only people earning over £150k? Why not everyone then, if ya want us to all be in this together?

£150k is the threshold for the highest rate of tax. I'd hope you are playing devls advocate because surely nobody is horrific enough to suggest those on 20k - approximately 30% less than the average wage should be taking a 30% pay cut?

Or in short to answer the bolded bit... because they can damn well ****ing afford it.

[Norbs]

What Dave said

[Mr Pink]

Yes, they already pay the highest rate of tax... therefor they should also have to pay an extra 30%??

Yes they can afford it, but so could someone earning 149k... or someone earning 60k...

Why not raise everyone’s taxes by 5-10%? The high earners will still be contributing more, but it will be linear.

(Also to be clear, I’m not in the 150k+ bracket [emoji23][emoji23])

[Norbs]

Because I don't think the highest bracket is high enough. It only affects income above the threshold so they've got to be in it to win it

[Buzzo]

Yes, they already pay the highest rate of tax... therefor they should also have to pay an extra 30%??

Yes they can afford it, but so could someone earning 149k... or someone earning 60k...

Why not raise everyone’s taxes by 5-10%? The high earners will still be contributing more, but it will be linear.

(Also to be clear, I’m not in the 150k+ bracket [emoji23][emoji23])

A 5% tax increase on families earning £15-30k will send many of them to a food bank. A 5% tax increase on families earning £150k means they can only afford to abroad twice or they have to rethink their extension.

[BG1973]

Not sure I agree.

It's most definitely a valid point yeah, however a footballer commenting on people getting paid ridiculous money because thats what the market dictates has some nerve IMO.

I don't give a **** how the message is given to the tory cnut tbh.

[Buzzo]

I’ve always found the ‘it’s a short career’ excuse pretty galling. You earn £xmilliom per year until you are mid 30’s.

Why shouldn’t they have to retrain or get another job like the rest of us have to?

[Kenneth]

It's an old argument that was true up until the 80s and maybe into the 90s,

[topscorer]

I just want to say how proud I am that Henderson is our captain.

Seeing all the other professional football players from other clubs make a point of giving him credit for bringing them all together to help the NHS shows how much respect he has amongst his peers, what a great leader he is & what a great human being he is.

We are lucky to have him.

[McDermotX]

Aye......its such a shame, on a personal level for him for sporting reasons, that in a season in which he'll have risen to the top of his game, delivered the title for us and almost certainly have won the Player of the Year Award.........it'll be remembered for this bollocks of a pandemic and its effect on the season.

Deserved everything he gets this season.