- Coronavirus having massive financial impact on RFU
- Cuts may impact on Jones’s contract extension talks
Eddie Jones will be asked to take a pay cut after the Rugby Football Union revealed it is set to lose up to £50m owing to the disruption caused by coronavirus. The RFU chief executive, Bill Sweeney, has already agreed to a wage reduction of more than 25% with Twickenham expecting massive losses over the next 18 months.
Jones earns around £750,000 a year, making him the second highest paid coach in the international game, but the RFU will discuss reductions with him and the rest of England’s coaching staff as cost-cutting measures.
Written by Gerard Meagher
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/25/eddie-jones-to-be-asked-to-take-pay-cut-with-rfu-set-for-50m-losses under the title “Eddie Jones to be asked to take pay cut with RFU set for £50m losses”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
