Milan (AFP)
The Brescia players agreed to a cut in their wages, the Italian soccer club said on Wednesday, which again expressed the wish that the Serie A season be definitely stopped.
In a statement addressed to club subscribers, President Massimo Cellino praised "the great sensitivity and responsibility shown by our players who, above all, very quickly accepted the proposal to reduce wages, to preserve the integrity of the club in this delicate moment. "
The club, where the Italian star striker Mario Balotelli is playing, did not specify what the level of the drop accepted by the players was.
The club recalled that it "would like to avoid resuming (the season), out of respect for the sad reality of Brescia", city of Lombardy, epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy.
Monday, the clubs of the championship of Italy announced to have found an agreement on the reduction of the wages of their players, "of a third of the gross annual remuneration" in the event of definitive cancellation of the end of the season, of a sixth if the championship were to resume again.
Individual agreements must still be signed between the different clubs and the players, who therefore waive an amount between two months and four months of salary.
The professional players' union (AIC), however, denounced a decision described as "inadmissible".
The decision announced Monday by the League was taken unanimously by the Serie A clubs, with the exception of Juventus, which had previously reached an agreement with its own players.
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