Premier League: 30% Star wages short, millions for charity

The English champion will not start at the beginning of May, but only when the situation by Covid-19 is secure. Season 2019-5020 will be closed when the most convenient time”. This is the decision of 20 Premier League clubs, at the end of the meeting about the Coronavirus emergency.

The elite teams in England reached the accord to talk to footballers to ask for a 30 percent reduction in the annual salary. “Because it's huge financial losses from suspension of activity, and that's the way to support other employees”, it was written in the press release.

Premier League also decided to help the lowest English leagues by unanimously voting to award 125 million pounds, as <x0klubs located below in the football pyramid are suffering in this period of crisis”. Also, the Football League supported “the heroic mission of the Sanitary National Service, providing 20 million pounds in support of this institution, but families and groups of persons who are endangered by the pandemic-19”.