Sporting Lisbon cuts gamers’ wages by 40 % – soccer

Sporting Lisbon have positioned a lot of the membership’s workers on partial unemployment and lowered participant salaries by 40 % to mitigate monetary losses after the season was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.The Lisbon membership stated in an announcement launched by the inventory alternate authority late on Wednesday that 95 % of its workforce would go on “temporary suspension” or face “reduced working hours”.

The resolution follows a transfer to slash first-team participant and workers wages by 40 %. The board of administrators can even take a 50 % pay lower, the membership added.

Sporting had been fourth within the desk when the league was suspended final month, trailing leaders Porto by 18 factors with 10 rounds of matches left within the season. AFP BS BS