Comments on: Portsmouth Players Rally To Pay Staff Wages

By: mizman

mizman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:17:47 +0000

PfcCornwall take it up with the guardian…..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2010/jan/10/portsmouth-wages-waste-of-money

By: Delboy Dublin

Delboy Dublin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:20:58 +0000

Apparently, if every player agreed to a 5% wage cut per week, and even that would only be until the club came out of administration, the redundancies could have been wholly avoided. All but the two afore-mentioned players turned it down immediately. Pampered, greedy wastrels, the lot of them

By: pfcCornwall

pfcCornwall — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:20:00 +0000

@mizman: You are ill informed. Where on earth did you get that figure from? He’s never been reported to be on £80k a week. He’s on around £28k according to an announcement by PFC a month ago.

That having been said, it’s still a ludicrous amount of money for someone who has never lived up to his potential, primarily because Harry didn’t like him.

I’m not turning this into a Harry-Bash but he paid over the odds for Utaka, then decided that he didn’t like him and just left him on the sidelines rather than selling him on, a typical Harry move. A certain David Nugent suffered the same thing.

It should be possible for the players to set up a Ltd company, employ the staff completely separately from PFC. As long as HMRC are paid correctly it shouldn’t be an issue.

Were the players asked to take a pay cut? I missed that. Any chance of a link to the report?

It is great to sea our senior players leading by example. Let’s hope other join in.

PUP

By: mizman

mizman — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:59:26 +0000

i dont blame them for not taking wage cuts initially as there was not mass redundancies and a new owner was thought to be found within the forseeable future. Jamo and Hermann have done the right thing even if it turns out to be not to a practical option. The players to blame are ones like Jon Utaka who is reportadly on 80,000 per week.

By: David Allison

David Allison — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:27:56 +0000

Fair point, Delboy Dublin.

It looks like it’s been turned down by administrators, Chris.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Portsmouth-star-David-James-offered-to-pay-the-wages-of-two-training-ground-staff-to-save-them-from-redundancy-but-was-turned-down-by-the-administrators-article351711.html

By: Delboy Dublin

Delboy Dublin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:32:34 +0000

Aren’t these the same players (Hreidarsson & James aside) who refused a pay cut only 3 days ago, leading to the mass redundancies in the first place? Heartfelt gesture my arse! 2 gents amongst a team of wasters