Caller brands redundancies at Arsenal "an absolute disgrace" | LBC

This caller branded Arsenal's decision to make 50 people redundant while paying Mesut Ozil £350,000 a week "an absolute disgrace".

This caller directed the on-air conversation to football after the debate centred around CEO pay only being cut by 36 of the UK's biggest companies during the pandemic.

Chris phoned in from Somerset to give his view on the news that only 36 of 100 of the UK's top companies cut their Chief Executive's pay during the pandemic.

He guided Iain Dale onto news coming from North London that Arsenal football club plan to make more than 50 people redundant because of losses made during the pandemic.

"These are ordinary folks," Chris began. He told Iain that he couldn't see why these people are made redundant when the club pays some players hundreds of thousands of pounds a week.

"It's an absolute disgrace."

Iain understood the argument. "It does seem very odd that someone can be earning tens of thousands – hundreds of thousands a week, and then the football club are making so called "ordinary people" redundant."

The caller scoffed at the thought that we're all supposed to be going through the pandemic together. "It appears that some people are in it more than others."

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