Derby couldn't pay their wages on time

[soulman101]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...yers-time.html
One of a number of clubs, who flipped the ground to themselves and now they are struggling to even pay their wages .
Hit the financial cheating clubs with points deduction.

[mickd1961]

Player wage payment dates should be set by the EFL and PL and any club failing to pay every contracted player on that date should be docked 12 points.

Non payment should also see a player become a free agent.

Draconian measures like this would make most clubs bloody sure they give themselves plenty of fiscal space and not push things to the limit and beyond.

[holmleighchris]

Players are paid too much, that is the problem. Clubs feel they have to pay the"going rate" to achieve anything but their income isn't up to it unless they've been in the top flight taking the big payments. I'd be interested to know how much league 1 & 2 players are paid to perform in front of 2-4 thouseand people every match, only half of the games being home ones so we are talking around 23 games.

[mickd1961]

Players are paid too much, that is the problem. Clubs feel they have to pay the"going rate" to achieve anything but their income isn't up to it unless they've been in the top flight taking the big payments. I'd be interested to know how much league 1 & 2 players are paid to perform in front of 2-4 thouseand people every match, only half of the games being home ones so we are talking around 23 games.

In the third division of non league football there are players at Stourbridge earning £350-£400+ per week Chris.

It’s rumoured our ex star striker is earning £800 a week at our league rivals Nuneaton.

Two levels above us in the Conference there are players on £1500 a week.

I believe the rough range of wages in League Two sees an average annual wage in that division of £50k a year but Salford are paying at least one player up to £250k a year.

In League One the average wage is around £75k a year but some “big” players at that level can be earning £1m-£2m if they’ve dropped with the likes of Sunderland from the Premier League.

There should be a salary cap brought in.







After we get promoted!

[Dubbag]

There should be a salary cap brought in.

Hardly free market is it?
Cap CEO'S wages as well?

[mickd1961]

Hardly free market is it?
Cap CEO'S wages as well?

What point are you trying to make!!?

[Joy_Division]

Bring in a maximum wage. You can live a decent life on a max of for example £5,000 a week, which in my opinion is still too much.
I'm not down with this cr*p of a footballer has a short earning span and needs to make his money while he can play. No one gets a job for life anymore so at the end of their careers they should get to earning money some other way like the rest of us have to. I was made redundant twice in my working life and had to put myself back on the market to earn a living. These players have become so cossetted they think at the end of their careers at say in their late thirties then they should be able to put their feet up for the rest of their lives. B*ll*x. They can continue to work for another good twenty odd years after football is finished.

[Yarmbaggie]

The problem Joy D is that even with a contract of say £5000 per week which would be low by modern day standards then they won’t have to work after they stop playing anyway. An annual salary of £250,000 equates to about 8 years for the average salary in the UK. As long as they get £5000 per week for 5 years they will earn the same as the average person does in the UK after 40 years. Ridiculous!

The reality is that so many of them would not even consider £5000 per week to be a high wage!

[holmleighchris]

At 5 grand a week you could comfortably put your feet up after ten years.
It's okay paying them big money if the money is there, but for many clubs it isn't.

[WBA1955]

Pompey knocked us out of the semi finals with a team they couldn't afford. It is unfair on clubs like us who have always stuck to the rules. To say we have never had an owner who has backed the club makes our runs in the Premier league all the more remarkable.