Salary drop would come via cuts, deferrals or bothLeague gives £125m to lower clubs and £20m to NHS and needyCoronavirus – latest updates | See all our coronavirus coverageTop-flight players may ultimately be asked to take a 30% drop in their annual pay, via wage cuts, deferrals or both, the Premier League’s 20 clubs agreed at a meeting on Friday to consider football’s response to the financial crisis caused by its suspension during the coronavirus pandemic.
The league also announced that it will accelerate £125m due to the EFL and National League, although a large portion of that is parachute payments to individual clubs previously relegated from the top flight, not for distribution to stricken smaller clubs.