We have already seen a number of things happen at Shrewsbury Town FC to help the club stabilise against the backlash of the ITV Digital, but what else is going to happen in the future when the effects really take a strangle hold?
Players have already been released from the club and they weren’t just minor players there was two players who were capable of getting into the first team on a regular basis. Kevin Ratcliffe has had his purse strings trimmed to nothing from next to nothing and the youth policy is currently undergoing a major reconstruction with one coach already leaving.
But will things get better in the future I here you ask. I don’t think they will for a while but this could help players remember if they want a job they can’t keep asking for stupid money. In last years accounts published by STFC the biggest out going was obviously the wages, but now every club in the country has been forced to reconsider their pay structure.
Bradford released 18 players recently due to poor running of the club and the TV crisis, but one agent thinks this will make people sit up and take notice; Hayden Evans claims Geoffrey Richmond's (the Bradford Chairman) regime has "backfired". Evans represents David Wetherall and Lewis Emanuel, says it is time for a reality check and added: "What it does do is allow people to focus a little bit. Over the last few years, the rest of the population that's got no affinity to football has looked upon it not just with envy and jealousy but with a little bit of spite in that people have been accused of being prima donnas and there's too much money in football."
And there is more.
Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston believes the collapse of ITV Digital will bring an end to the trend of spiralling wages in the Nationwide League. Oyston said: "There must now be a realisation that players are going to have to settle for less than they may have been previously used to in the past, it is a simple fact of life. "It could be that certain contracts may end up becoming only a quarter of their previous worth, but clubs all over the land are now about to reverse previous trends. "Even so players must realise that they will still be very well paid in comparison to others of the same age group in mainstream employment."
This to me is a chink of light in a very long a dark tunnel in which we have only just started travelling. If player’s astronomical wages reduce the so will the financial pressure on every club in England. Bury, Swindon, Carlisle and York to name but a few financially struggling clubs will hope that this situation comes to fruition sooner rather than later – and save there name and the name of football.
Players have already been released from the club and they weren’t just minor players there was two players who were capable of getting into the first team on a regular basis. Kevin Ratcliffe has had his purse strings trimmed to nothing from next to nothing and the youth policy is currently undergoing a major reconstruction with one coach already leaving.
But will things get better in the future I here you ask. I don’t think they will for a while but this could help players remember if they want a job they can’t keep asking for stupid money. In last years accounts published by STFC the biggest out going was obviously the wages, but now every club in the country has been forced to reconsider their pay structure.
Bradford released 18 players recently due to poor running of the club and the TV crisis, but one agent thinks this will make people sit up and take notice; Hayden Evans claims Geoffrey Richmond's (the Bradford Chairman) regime has "backfired". Evans represents David Wetherall and Lewis Emanuel, says it is time for a reality check and added: "What it does do is allow people to focus a little bit. Over the last few years, the rest of the population that's got no affinity to football has looked upon it not just with envy and jealousy but with a little bit of spite in that people have been accused of being prima donnas and there's too much money in football."
And there is more.
Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston believes the collapse of ITV Digital will bring an end to the trend of spiralling wages in the Nationwide League. Oyston said: "There must now be a realisation that players are going to have to settle for less than they may have been previously used to in the past, it is a simple fact of life. "It could be that certain contracts may end up becoming only a quarter of their previous worth, but clubs all over the land are now about to reverse previous trends. "Even so players must realise that they will still be very well paid in comparison to others of the same age group in mainstream employment."
This to me is a chink of light in a very long a dark tunnel in which we have only just started travelling. If player’s astronomical wages reduce the so will the financial pressure on every club in England. Bury, Swindon, Carlisle and York to name but a few financially struggling clubs will hope that this situation comes to fruition sooner rather than later – and save there name and the name of football.