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Tottenham are reducing the salaries of non-playing staff by 20 per cent as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\nTottenham are reducing the salaries of non-playing staff by 20 per cent as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
The measure means that 550 employees will endure the cuts for the next two months and comes after Premier League rivals Newcastle furloughed their staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe club\u2019s operations have effectively ceased, some of our fans will have lost their jobs and most will be worried about their future,\u201d Spurs chairman Daniel Levy said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur sponsors will be concerned about their businesses and our media partners have no certainty when we may play games again or whether we will be allowed to play in front of our fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the meantime, the club has an annual cost base running into hundreds of millions of pounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have seen some of the biggest clubs in the world such as Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus take steps to reduce their costs.<\/p>\n
\u201c(On Monday), having already taken steps to reduce costs, we ourselves made the difficult decision \u2013 in order to protect jobs \u2013 to reduce the remuneration of all 550 non-playing directors and employees for April and May by 20 per cent utilizing, where appropriate, the Government\u2019s furlough scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n
Levy offers a bleak outlook for the game as Covid-19 sweeps across the globe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I read or hear stories about player transfers this summer like nothing has happened, people need to wake up to the enormity of what is happening around us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith over 786,000 infected, nearly 38,000 deaths and large segments of the world in lockdown, we need to realize that football cannot operate in a bubble.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe maybe the eighth largest club in the world by revenue according to the Deloitte survey, but all that historical data is totally irrelevant as this virus has no boundaries.\u201d<\/p>\n