Manchester City are the first Premier League club to confirm they will not furlough staff during the current coronavirus crisis.
The Blues wrote to all non-playing staff to let them know that they will continue to pay salaries as normal for the duration of the global health crisis, which has forced the suspension of football across the planet.
As well as killing thousands in the UK, the Covid-19 outbreak has also brought much of the country’s economy – including the football industry – grinding to a halt.
As a result, the government pledged to pay 80 per cent of the wages of employees whose jobs have become temporarily redundant, as a means of supporting people financially and stopping the national economy from going into a nose-dive.