The furlough scheme is to help businesses retain staff they would otherwise have had to release. Our Club is struggling for cash and we’ve seen proposed investors walk away, for now at least. Had the players not deferred then its likely that the non-playing staff would have found themselves either getting just the Govt 80% - or being laid off completely. As it is they too, just like the players, can now sit at home and get paid full salary.
Don’t get me wrong, I too would have preferred the players to take a cut rather than a deferral. Nevertheless, for me, this is more about the Club coming through this. The players have, at least, enhanced that prospect.
I wonder what we will now do with players out of contract on 31 May. Halliday and a few others? If we want to save money presumably we should just let them go, stop paying them and leave them high and dry with nowhere to go.