World football news: Players across the globe take wage cuts

Desperate times call for desperate measures. In a time of ambivalence where it is unknown if the 2019-2020 season can be completed, everybody is working together to try to lighten the load in the football world.

From Cristiano Ronaldo in Italy to Lionel Messi in Spain, players from their respective clubs have agreed to take pay cuts during the COVID-19 unresolved times. The future of football looks bleak, including putting the 2019-20 season in the past looks as if it’s a mythological view at the moment.

As per all reports from the Premier League and the others across Europe, playing behind closed doors is the first option to get the show on the road and end what they’ve already started. Though, the bigger question is… When will this happen?

The green light must be given by the government, so while we all play the waiting game for life to get back to something (cause life getting back to normal sounds a far stretch), people, players, clubs, everybody, must do their bit to lighten the load.

There is no denying the economic sectors of the world is taking a massive hit because of the world being placed on hold. So much so, football players are taking a drop in wages to help alleviate the financial strains on their parent clubs.

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"Juventus Football Club S.p.A. announces that, due to the current global health emergency is preventing the performance of the sporting activity, it has reached an understanding with the players and the coach of the First Team regarding their compensation for the residual portion of the current sport seasonThe understanding provides for the reduction of the compensation for an amount equal to the monthly payments of March, April, May and June 2020. In the coming weeks, personal agreements with the players and the coach will be finalised, as required by the current regulations (Via: Sky Sports)"

Messi leaving Barca the last worry

Sky Sports posed the question does Barcelona need to worry about a Messi exit with the club’s immediate response to the crisis in Spain and follow suit with pay cuts. As it is known, Spain battles with their control of the Coronavirus and is overtaking in certain numbers, a player leaving is the last thing any of the hierarchy are worried about.

Sadly, there is a rift between the club and their players on where to draw the line in their salary drop. This is why they worry about one of the world’s best and whether he will stay come to the summer window has surfaced.

"It is understood that Barcelona want to reduce salaries by 70 per cent while the players have offered to cut their wages by 30 per cent for the rest of the season. As it stands, no agreement has been reached.The club is adamant there will be wage cuts, beginning retrospectively from March 19, so where does this leave Lionel Messi?The Argentine, whose contract expires next summer, earns a reported £500,000-a-week. His salary amounts to over £31m, before bonuses.Barcelona sit two points clear at the top of La Liga, but the fractious relationship between the club and its players has brought scrutiny to a clause in Messi’s deal which would allow him to leave on a free transfer this summer. (Via: Sky Sports)"

One matter presses the other

First, it was just a worry of having to play behind closed doors. Then it changed into no football and a return date was planned for when football can get back to action. To now having to wait even longer, waiting for all of this to pass before anything can happen, even walking around outside.