‘The Premier League needs to BAN clubs from buying anyone if they have furloughed staff or cut players’ wages’: Gary Neville says it’s ludicrous for clubs to be pleading poverty and then splashing out on transfer targets

Gary Neville has claimed any Premier League clubs who have furloughed staff or cut players' wages must be subject of a transfer ban this summer.

Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United are controversially among the high profile sides who have taken up the scheme from the government which helps businesses pay 80 per cent of staff wages during the financial crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Neville said on Sky Sports: 'What I would say in the bigger picture, these transfer discussions, Kane for £200m, Sancho for £100m, big-money signings completely undermines the discussions they are having with players.