Norwich City have defended their decision to place their non-playing staff on furlough during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Newcastle are the only other Premier League club currently availing of the job retention scheme payment.
The Canaries' chief operating officer Ben Kensell says they're likely to lose around 35-million pounds during football's shutdown.
"The decision we made was in the best interests of the club and its staff," he told BBC Radio Norfolk.
"We've been very transparent that we're run in a self-financed manner. Ultimately, if we had the available cashflow to not have to take up schemes then, like other football clubs have, we would.
"The difference is we're running it as a business and we're running it the best way we believe will help it for the future. It's also about our staff. What we don't want is a raft of redundancies.
"We knew we'd get criticised as a result of it; what we're not going to do is take a different view on that. We'll stick to our guns and we believe we are doing it for the right reasons.
"We've got the best owners in football - that's a fact. We haven't got the richest owners but we like to think we're doing things the right way."
