The 2019-2020 Top 14 Championship has been stopped because of the coronavirus, but not the financial haemorrhage that strikes clubs. This Monday, the Olympic Castres indicated on its website to have reached an agreement with the representatives of its players, to reduce the payroll. A first to date.
At the end of a social and economic committee, the OC, tenth in the championship at the time of the suspension of the competition at the beginning of March, announced a salary drop of a maximum amount of 15% for professional players (the Espoirs do not are not concerned) and 20% for sports supervision.
An agreement has been signed between Castres Olympique and its players concerning a reduction in the remuneration of players and the club's sports supervision for the 2020/2021 season. Https://t.co/6d7uFsaISn
- Castres Olympique (@CastresRugby) May 11, 2020"As a result of this agreement, our payroll will drop by around 15% but we will have a competitive workforce," assured President Pierre-Yves Revol. The boss of the five-time champion of France, the last time in 2018, stressed "the great sense of responsibility and solidarity" of "all the players. "
"A strong signal"
"It was important to send a strong signal quickly in order to launch the momentum of solidarity that must be created around the club," commented hooker Marc-Antoine Rallier, one of the six representatives of the players. To date, players and employees of Top 14 and Pro D2 are on partial unemployment, waiting for the resumption of collective training, still unclear, then the championships, not before September.
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