National League handed multi-million pound funding boost by Premier League
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They Premier League will also give £20m to the National Health Service, while Premier League clubs will ask players to take a 30 per cent pay cut in order to protect jobs.
All Premier League clubs have agreed to put the proposed “combination of conditional reductions and deferrals” to players.
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Hide AdThe moves come after Premier League clubs and players came under strong criticism over plans to take advantage of the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which will see 80 per cent of wages covered in order to prevent forced redundancies across all businesses.
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