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Rob Guest

Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust send important message to Daniel Levy and the Spurs squad

Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust (THST) have called on Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to make a "further personal contribution" to the club's non-paying staff.

Levy has come in for plenty of criticism over the past few days following Tuesday's announcement that all non-playing staff will lose 20 per cent of their pay for April and May.

The decision came on the same day that it was announced that the chairman had been paid a salary of £7million over the past year, with £3m of that a bonus.

As well as calling for Levy to make a "further personal contribution" on top of his 20 per cent pay cut in a statement, THST also urged the playing staff to contribute at such a hard time for people across the country,

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"We are aware that no football club can impose contract changes on its playing or coaching staff without agreement with the respective unions, the PFA and LMA," read the statement.

"The comment that Tottenham has chosen to cut non-playing staff wages while choosing not to cut playing staff wages is inaccurate.

"But there is nothing to stop the club’s players making a voluntary contribution to ensure that the most vulnerable do not bear too great a burden.

"And there is nothing to stop the club’s directors, including the chairman, making a further personal contribution on top of their 20 per cent wage cuts.

"(These are) points we have made directly to the club board and will continue to do so.

"We have made it clear that this is a course of action fans would overwhelmingly support."

In response to the above statement from the supporters' trust, a club spokesman said: "We shall continue to work with the Trust in the interests of the Club."

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