It could sound like a new football whim. But Toni Kroos delivers a thoughtful analysis on the desire of clubs to lower player wages during the coronavirus crisis. A guest of “Steil extra!”, A podcast from the German site SWR Sport, the Real Madrid midfielder is not in favor of this option while his club is currently thinking of cutting players’ pay by 20% maximum.
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“A drop in salary is like a donation in vain”
“A drop in salary is like a donation to no avail, or for the club,” said the German international. Former Bayern Munich player urges colleagues to take much more relevant individual measures, he says.
“I am in favor of the full salary being paid and doing sensible things”
“I am in favor of the full salary being paid and doing sensible things,” he added. Everyone is invited to help where necessary and there are many places where it is necessary . ” The player himself is involved in charitable causes. He notably created a foundation to help seriously ill children in 2015.
The player pushes his thinking even further and questions the “global football system”. “Many clubs have no planned income,” he said. “It also depends on how long everything stays stopped. If, for example, the games are played again in May, solutions will surely be found. If it does not resume until winter, I can imagine that clubs will not do it anymore (pay the salaries, note). It would change football as we know it. “
For him too, the transfer market will be impacted with declining amounts. “I doubt that such sums can be paid as in recent years,” he concludes. “I think that all the problems will arise. Some more, others less. Everything has become a bit extreme.”
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