Liverpool use taxpayer money to furlough staff

Originally Posted by Patty_b

You failed pal.

Got it via the motorbility scheme, borrowed tommy smiths paperwork

Obligatory blame and self-pity....

Liverpool Football Club believe that details regarding their plans to place their staff on the government's furlough scheme were leaked by a Premier League rival, according to The Athletic. Liverpool had held what they believed to be confidential discussions involving Premier League sides about how they intended to handle the effects of the pandemic. But after the news broke on Saturday, the report states that principal owner John W Henry, chairman Tom Werner and FSG president Mike Gordon were 'shocked' by the deluge of criticism that came their way and were unhappy with what they regarded as unfair jibes of greed.

Some of the staff who were initially furloughed will now return to their positions, but club chairman Peter Moore warned that Liverpool will continue to suffer the longer the club goes without playing football.

Moore said: 'In the spirit of transparency, we must be clear, our revenues have been shut off yet our outgoings remain. And like almost every sector of society, there is great uncertainty and concern over our present and future.

Liverpool posted a turnover of £533million in the last financial year. The Champions League winners made a profit of £42m.

Originally Posted by Pop

Obligatory blame and self-pity....

As has been said many, many times before;

Always the victims, never their fault.

Originally Posted by Pop

Obligatory blame and self-pity....

Imagine if they went under..

Just imagine it

Originally Posted by AK14

Imagine if they went under..

Just imagine it

probably come back ala rangers

what i mean to say is going bust is no longer the worst thing that can happen to a football club nowadays

Originally Posted by d_knight

probably come back ala rangers

what i mean to say is going bust is no longer the worst thing that can happen to a football club nowadays

Keeps them out of the way for ten years though.