With so many clubs in financial trouble West Ham owners David Gold and David Sullivan have come up with a simple solution, and that is to give all the staff at the club a 25% pay cut, that’s all the staff connected to the squad, players coach’s, medical staff, these wage cuts extend upstairs to the boardroom, this may seem harsh but football is a team game.
The cut should have a trigger point and not be able to be bandied around willy nilly, for example after 20 games any clubs in the bottom six have this rule applied, it must stay in force for at least a month, you may get this reversed by moving back up the table.
I am sure there are a lot of holes in this plan and it may not even be workable, but something needs to be done, pampered stars earning millions of pounds a year need to be hit where it hurts, loyalty is largely non existent in football anymore, the only loyalty is to their wallets.
West hams wage bill is in the region of Sixty million pounds a bad season can save up to 15 million pounds.
Portsmouth in their current state would have benefitted already this season to the tune of millions and that could be the difference between survival and administration.
Successful clubs will not be affected and rightly so, success should be rewarded not punished, this should be extended across all divisions, it may even help in the long run the nonsense of massive wages for mediocre players, an example being fringe player at West Ham Defender Manuel Da Costa who I confess I had never heard of earning twenty thousand pounds a week.
This is what happens when business men run a club like a business, good working practice is set in place, I wish the two David’s luck at West Ham and hope that they can reduce the clubs 110 million pound debt before the threat of administration creeps up on the Hammers to.
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