Three Arsenal players reject 12.5% wage cut

Three Arsenal players reject 12.5% wage cut it has been revealed after majority of the squad and Mikel Arteta agree to do so.

Several reports claim that Mesut Ozil – the Premier League club’s highest earner – was one of a trio of footballer to refuse to the agreement, instead only being prepared to defer his wages.

Pier Morgan was quick to hit out at Ozil’s stance when he presented Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning Britain.

Morgan said: “He’s made it clear he respects the decision that the other players have made, but he’s urged them to respect his.

“He’s made it clear he might be willing to do it in the future, but wants to see the full financial impact of coronavirus and didn’t want to rush into a decision.

“Shame on you Mesut Ozil. Shame on you. So let me get this straight, some of the younger players on far less money than you, are taking a 12.5% pay cut, a minuscule drop in the ocean for you, and you don’t want to do it?

“Because you want to see how the financial situation plays out while you’re sitting on your backside on your PlayStation every night rather than actually playing football? Really?!

“Now I’ve reserved my condemnation for football clubs who have been furloughing using tax payer money when they’ve got plenty of money themselves: Liverpool, Newcastle, Tottenham all got shamed into doing U-turns on this kind of thing.

“The players I thought were getting a bad rap, but this is why some of them deserve a bad rap.

“People like Mesut Ozil who have just said, “No, sorry no, I may be the highest paid player at Arsenal, I might be one of the highest paid players in the world, I might be worth gazillions, and I might be sitting on my backside at the moment doing nothing. But no, I’m not going to take a pay cut.

“The player he is saying no. He wants to see the full financial impact. And I’m sickened by that. Absolutely sickened. Someone as wealthy as him. Young players earning far less have agreed but he won’t, Mesut Ozil.”

‘Shame on you Mesut Ozil.’

‘This is why some players get a bad rap.’

Arsenal footballer Mesut Ozil, who earns £350,000 a week, has refused to join his teammates in taking a 12.5% pay cut. @piersmorgan | #GMB pic.twitter.com/P48IW04zWT

— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) April 21, 2020

Fans reacted after learning that Three Arsenal players reject a 12.5% wage cut…

Captain Tom Moore moved more in a week than Ozil has in 5 seasons

— ANDY BROWN (@ANDYDB7) April 20, 2020

Mesut Ozil is on £350,000 a week and has declined to take a 13.5% cut due to the current pandemic, embarrassing and shameful.

— ‎ً (@TheImmortalKop) April 20, 2020

Don’t fall for the Ozil stuff.

This will play out.

I’m pleased Arsenal have attempted to address the serious situation of lots of expenses vs a serious drop in revenue.

Don’t let people divide us just when we need to be unified

This is a very serious time.

— Clive (@clivepafc) April 20, 2020

Mesut Ozil:

He and his wife paid for 1,000 children to have life-changing surgery as part of their wedding gesture.

Fed 16,000 people in need.

Paid for 11 Brazilian children to have life-changing operations – £237,000 in medical bills. pic.twitter.com/ReQRyyPV2f

— AFTV (@AFTVMedia) April 21, 2020

The side of Mesut Özil that John Cross doesn’t want you to see. pic.twitter.com/aftIBen1Gf

— Bhavs (@bhavss14) April 21, 2020

Criticising a millionaire for not helping a billionaire save some cash is a strange stance

— Mark Somerset (@mark11s) April 21, 2020

Smart.
Özil on £350k a week.
12.5% of that is £43,750
He’d pay £21,875 a week in tax
52 weeks a year

Mesut Özil is giving £1.1m a year to the NHS instead of to Stan Kroenke. Hero. Class. Respect. https://t.co/BZzd0Pcycg

— JB™️ (@gunnerpunner) April 20, 2020

Not defending prem footballers, but Ozil gives masses of money to charity, funds operations for children, donated all his world cup earnings to good causes. Judge everything, not just a sensational headline designed to annoy you.

— Richard Peake (@CJrpeake) April 21, 2020

Makes a change for you Piers to be putting out bad karma!! The guy gives millions to charity. He’s obviously waiting to do his own thing with his money. I’m sure he will give handsomely to needy causes. He always does!!

— Richard Adams (@RichardLeeAdams) April 21, 2020

He is ready to take a bigger paycut in future. Just not right now. Also amount of charity work he does,will you ever talk about it? Have some shame. You are an animal.

— Indian Gooner (@Ozil_and_wenger) April 21, 2020

This is the issue – bloke doesn’t take a pay cut at his club yet pays a huge amount of tax, builds hospitals and pays for children’s operations around the world to save lives. Saving arsenals bacon is pretty low on the agenda for him, and rightly so.

— Scottie (@s8j7s) April 21, 2020

Knock on effect. Players take a pay cut, that pay cut pays none playing staff which helps the club to not furlough them which saves the government paying out and takes the strain off NHS funding

— D Col (@dale1971c) April 21, 2020

Well done for refusing it. Let’s see how much of a pay cut Stan Kroenke worth 13bn is taking

— Luke King (@Coolhandluke_25) April 21, 2020