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AS Roma players agree to go without four months' salary

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AS Roma players agree to go without four months' salary
AS Roma players agree to go without four months' salary

The players and coaching staff of Serie A club AS Roma agree to go without wages for four months to help the club cope with the financial troubles brought on by the coronavirus crisis.

SHOWS: ROME, ITALY (FILE - MAY 1, 2018) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1.

AS ROMA PLAYERS TRAINING 2.

MORE OF ROMA TRAINING 3.

CLOSE-UP OF PLAYER'S FOOT AND A BALL 4.

MORE OF TEAM TRAINING SESSION 5.

FORWARD EDIN DZEKO DURING TRAINING 6.

VARIOUS MORE OF TEAM TRAINING SESSION 7.

DZEKO 8.

MORE OF TRAINING NYON, SWITZERLAND (FILE - NOVEMBER 11, 2019) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 9.

A.S.

ROMA COACH, PAULO FONSECA, LEAVING UEFA COACHES MEETING 10.

FONSECA SPEAKING TO MEDIA (NOT A SOUNDBITE) ROME, ITALY (FILE - MARCH 2020) (AS ROMA - ACCESS ALL) 11.

AS ROMA STAFF PREPARING PACKAGES FOR SOME OF THEIR ELDERLY FANS 12.

AN AS ROMA SCARF, BOTTLE OF PERONI, PASTA AND GLOVES SEEN AT TOP OF ONE OF THE BOXES 13.

VARIOUS OF STAFF, WHO ARE WEARING MASKS, PREPARING THE BOXES 14.

MAN WALKING PAST VANS THAT WILL TRANSPORT THE PACKAGES 15.

FOUR STAFF STANDING NEXT TO FOUR VANS 16.

ONE VAN DRIVING AWAY 17.

VAN DRIVING ALONG STREET STORY: The players and coaching staff at Serie A side AS Roma have agreed to go without four months' salary to help the club through the crisis caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Serie A has been suspended since March 9 and it is not known if or when the season will be able to re-start.

Roma said in a statement on Sunday (April 19) that the players would forego the wages they were due to receive between March and the scheduled end of the season in June.

Roma said the players would also top up the wages of other club employees who were placed on the Italian government's social safety net scheme to ensure they received their regular monthly income.

The club management will also give up a percentage of their earnings.

Players at Juventus, Parma and Cagliari have also agreed to wage reductions.

However, a Serie A recommendation that similar cuts be made at all top flight clubs has been rejected by the players' union which argues that those at smaller clubs are less able to afford reductions.

Roma said that the if current season resumes and is completed, the players had agreed on an incentive-based plan to be paid "subject to the achievement of certain sporting objectives".

According to Roma, the players told Fiengo in a letter that they were ready to start playing as soon as possible but "we also realise that all this will not be enough to face the economic consequences of the current emergency.

(Production: Kurt Michael Hall)

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