Newcastle United's perspective new owners could instantly win support from the club's non-playing staff by immediately taking the club out of furlough once completing a £300m takeover.
The Toon, under the ownership of Mike Ashley, were controversially the first club to announce their intention to use the scheme which sees the government pay 80 per cent of a company's staff wages up until £2,500.
But the prospective takeover led by Amanda Staveley for a Saudi Arabian backed bid are assessing making a widely popular move by scrapping the scheme launched off the back of the coronavirus outbreak.