Just been messaged that the Sun are reporting that Dee players need to accept a reduced salary or contracts suspended.
I don’t have an issue with this as I don’t regards footballers exempt from the harsh realities of life and decisions made in the best interests of the business,I genuinely applaud the club for being upfront the whole country is financially ****ed but clubs in Scotland appear to be saying yeh it’s fine...if the club have topped up their salary during furlough and now they are saying no thanks I would say just go ,irrespective of who you are,good luck finding a club just now...
In my opinion football players throughout Scotland should be very careful what they decide to do as there are going to be a lot of them who are going to have difficulty getting a full time contract at another club on the same wages.
Last night there was a article on BBC Reporting Scotland about Stephen O’Donnell who is now out of work and not receiving any money. From memory I seem to remember that Stephen O'Donnell tuned down the offer of a new contract with Kilmarnock. Sometimes a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and the grass is not always greener on the other side.
I think this has been handled pretty badly by the club. Why are we getting stories about Hemmings being the only one to refuse?why are we getting stories of wage cuts at all? And if we are getting them,why was the first story not that John Nelms was taking a pay cut?
And why are we needing pay cuts when we have the best worded insurance policy in the whole world?
I would think it’s hard to keep this out the news, agents would be first to turn to the media, I don’t know for sure but I’d think Nelms, if his wages are paid by the club would have taken a reduction, it’s not just our insurance policy being challenged, but let’s hope the challenge is defeated in the courts and we get back on a sound footing,
I think the club falls down when we can’t even have new strips on sale half way into July, that’s money they could have had in from May
Aberdeen's insurance was obviously paying out,until it was cancelled. We have a man at dens,not even sure what his job is, but he has been telling everyone how clever he was getting a policy that was watertight. Then he was telling us how ST refunds couldn't be processed until the insurance pays out,despite their being no correlation between those things.
As for keeping the news out the press, the club must have known this would leak.so last week,the press release should have said, " Nelms takes pay cut to help club,urges players to follow suit"
Now tho Kane has been hung out to dry