whats wrong with breaking the contract and signing a new one with
lower pay?
nothing as far as I can see. but I could stand corrected shortly ey..
Eric
On Sep 1, 2006, at 7:29 PM, Mark Humphries wrote:
As I keep saying, I don’t think players are actually allowed to
drop their
salaries. It’s a union thing. I stand to be corrected, but does
anyone
know of a single instance when someone dropped their salary?
Apart from when there was a relegation clause in the contract or a new
contract after the existing one finished.
Having said that, it wouldn’t surprise me that most footballers
would refuse
to drop even if they could.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:leedslist-
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Sent: 01 September 2006 16:04
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LU] Bakke
Not too sure why you'd get so angry about this Chris? No-one in
their
right mind would voluntarily take a drop in wages. OK, so he
hasn't earned
a tenth of >what he's earnt in the last 3 years - blame Ridsdale,
he's the
idiot who presumably agreed the salary.
It's a much-discussed topic John, but IMHO you cannot apply the
same logic
for someone who earns £23,000 per year, as opposed to someone who
earns
£23,000 per week. Bakke has earned £1.2million per year at Leeds -
presumably his £4,000 fee per match played is on top of that. In
short
(unless he is an absolute idiot), he will never have any money
worries, so
why should a cut in wages really bother him? If an average guy in an
average job on an average wage was asked to halve his wages, it
would hit
him hard - in fact, he probably wouldn't survive financially.
What does
it
say about Bakke that he is quite prepared to sacrifice his playing
career
just to earn even more money? How many football players would give
everything they've got just to play top flight football, yet Bakke
couldn't
care less. He doesn't care that he is bleeding the club dry, that
has
stood by him through drink driving and self-incurred injury, and
paid him
throughout.
That makes me pretty angry too.
Gaffer
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