Negotiations are ongoing between the Premier League and the players union regarding salary reductions due to the financial consequences of the corona pandemic.

In Italian Serie A and Spanish La Liga, major clubs such as Juventus and Barcelona have announced that all players, such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, will temporarily go down in salary. But a unified message from the High League in England - where there is a stoppage of play until at least April 30 - still waits, while some clubs are lowering the salaries of other employees.

It has got high-ranking politicians to raise their votes.

Want to see government decision

Conservative Julian Knight, chairman of the Committee on Digitization, Culture, Media and Sport in the British House of Commons, has sent a letter to Finance Minister and party mate Rishi Sunak.

- We are facing a disgusting situation when star players who do not work continue to earn hundreds of thousands of pounds (the equivalent of millions of Swedish kronor) a week while those who work to make the clubs survive lose in salary, says Julian Knight and continues:

- If the Premier League does not act to resolve this crisis, the government must act to punish the clubs significantly financially, to replace those who have the void in the wallet.

Conservative Health Minister Matt Hancock agrees:

- I think everyone has to play their part in it when the national effort, and that also includes football players in the Premier League, says Hancock.

Lineker Tottenham-critical

Several of the English high-league clubs have taken their own initiative in the corona crisis. For example, Norwich has announced that players and team management are donating the equivalent of SEK 2.5 million (£ 200,000) to those affected by the virus. But that sum, and even more, is what many of the biggest Premier League stars earn in a work week.

Tottenham has laid off 550 of its employees outside the team and cut their salaries by 20 per cent, while the players' salaries are still untouched. Expert Gary Lineker, former striker in "Spurs", is critical.

- I don't think Tottenham has handled this particularly well. What they do to their employees I do not like, he tells the BBC and continues:

- It is the club that has said that the players should continue to have their salaries, but we will see how the players react.