Arsenal Footballer Messaoud Ozil has refused to reduce his
wages despite the majority of the club’s members agree to
reduce their wages by 12.5 percent due to the financial crisis
the club is going through after the outbreak of the Coronavirus
pandemic and the Premier League matches stopped.
The Turkish-born player decided not to reduce his salary and set
a condition for agreeing to the reduction, which is to review the
club’s financial reports, although Masoud Ozil receives the
highest wages among Arsenal players by 350 thousand pounds
a week.
Ozil is facing a fierce attack by Arsenal fans who were shocked
by his refusal to cut his wages, and launched a storm of criticism
on the player on social media, according to the Spanish
newspaper “AS”.
The “Gunners” agreement came to reduce the salaries in
exchange for a guarantee of refunding the money and the
additional bonus estimated at 100,000 pounds for each player
if they qualified for the European Champions League, while the
value of the salary reduction will be reduced to 7.5 percent if
the team qualifies for the European League competition
“Europa League “.
Arsenal has become the third Premier League club to announce
this type of measure after Southampton and West Ham United,
but it is the first of the top six clubs to make this “financial
sacrifice.”
Coaches such as Brighton, Graham Potter, Eddie Howe,
Bournemouth coach, and Chris Wilder, Sheffield United coach,
have announced that they will give up a large portion of their
salaries with the most responsible for their clubs.
The decision of the “five-elite” to continue to pay the salaries of
players and refer employees to partial unemployment to benefit
from government aid, caused a sensation, and forced Liverpool,
Tottenham, and Bournemouth to back down from their decision,
while Norwich City and Newcastle continue their plans to
benefit from government assistance at present.
