indeed. It's cut the wages...but it's seriously cut the goodwill of the longterm (nonplaying) staff. it's already been mentioned about their 34 year groundsmen at Leigh (IIRC) who's been made redundant.
I'm also guessing that a load of hospitality and backroom permanent staff have gone, to be replaced by short-term zero hours ones.
The overall wage savings could probably be covered by their mens football team foregoing far less than a month of their wages.
And the biggest elephant in the room wage is still getting his millions for doing sod all, other than looming as a spectre of the past, holding back any chance of progress.
If they crash out of the PL this year, i can't see them coming back up straight away, unless they somehow hire a decent championship manager.