Post by Macmoish on May 24, 2011 7:26:49 GMT
I hope whoever is in charge of QPR contracts/Finances - is going to offer contracts which take into account the possibility of a QPR relegation - next season or the season after...
So that we don't get totally, totally screwed by having mass wages for players on long contracts
Just a thought! More important than the colour of the new strip...and even than where we're playing friendlies, is getting our financial Adminisrative structure in order...NOW - Before we spend 10 million or 20 million or 30 million pounds on signings and contracts.
TELEGRAPH/Graham Chase
Blackpool can bounce back with Ian Holloway in charge, insists chairman Karl Oyston
Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston has launched a vigorous defence of his club’s pay structure amid fears that the squad could be torn apart and that Ian Holloway could be tempted away following their relegation.
Blackpool can bounce back with Ian Holloway in charge, insists chairman Karl Oyston
The wages of Blackpool’s players will be halved – as will Holloway’s £800,000 salary – after they were consigned to an immediate return to the Championship with a 4-2 defeat at Manchester United on Sunday.
They also missed out on a collective £5 million survival bonus after sharing the same figure for reaching the Premier League last year.
Charlie Adam, David Vaughan and Matt Gilks are sure to depart, while Blackpool supporters fear that others, such as DJ Campbell and Stephen Crainey, will also leave after seeing their pay slashed.
Oyston insists that the system works, though, and claims that he voluntarily doubled the wages of half a dozen players – believed to include Ian Evatt, Gary Taylor-Fletcher and Keith Southern – who did not have a pay-increase clause last summer.
“What’s been implied is that we shouldn’t honour the contracts we have with players,” Oyston said. “Quite a number of the players who are said to be demoralised after having their wages halved are the ones who didn’t have any uplift in their contracts when we came into the Premier League and I voluntarily upped their wages.
“It’s all about risk and reward, it’s a two-way street and I think there were six players, five of who we’ve taken options to retain for the coming season. They’re actually back to where they would have been anyway if I hadn’t doubled their wages.”
Oyston has also rejected suggestions that further prudence in the transfer market this summer could lead to tensions with Holloway, who has won many plaudits for his side’s positive approach to the top flight.
The manager has a year left on his contract and, after the defeat at Old Trafford, he stated his intention to carry on, although his belief is sure to be tested by the imminent loss of as many as half of the team he has built.
“There have been no approaches for our manager and I hope that remains the case,” Oyston said. “We work together rather than one challenging the other, that’s how it should be.
“We have had preliminary discussions with one or two players and that will continue. Now we know our divisional status it gives us that bit more certainty because they know they’re coming to a Championship club, not a Premier League club.
“I’m trying very hard not to put Ian under pressure in a way he would ever feel threatened or not able to make the decisions that he makes freely.
“Hopefully he will pick himself up, he’ll have a couple of weeks away and reflect, recharge his batteries and come back and we can start assembling a team to do well in the Championship.”
Bloomfield Road’s temporary East Stand will remain in place indefinitely, although around 500 seats will be added to one of the corners, while plans for undersoil heating may be put on hold.
Liverpool are expected to renew their interest in Adam, after failing with a £6.4 million offer in January, and Gilks and Vaughan are set to leave on free transfers despite being offered fresh terms.
Wales midfielder Vaughan, 28, is wanted by Everton and goalkeeper Gilks has made it clear that he intends to remain in the Premier League, even referring to Blackpool, who held their awards dinner last night, as “them”.
“A lot of players are out of contract, including myself and a lot of players have earned the right to stay at different Premier League teams and they’ve shown they can do it week in, week out and good luck to them,” Gilks said.
“It’s kind of end of an era at the club and the team will probably break up now but I’m sure that Ian Holloway, the manager that he is, can build another one. For next season at least he is adamant that he is going to stay and hopefully get them back in the Premier League.
“Just like the players, he’s proved that he can manage at the top level and he’s turned the club around, not just the team, he’s turned the whole club around since he came through the door two years ago.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/blackpool/8531900/Blackpool-can-bounce-back-with-Ian-Holloway-in-charge-insists-chairman-Karl-Oyston.html
So that we don't get totally, totally screwed by having mass wages for players on long contracts
Just a thought! More important than the colour of the new strip...and even than where we're playing friendlies, is getting our financial Adminisrative structure in order...NOW - Before we spend 10 million or 20 million or 30 million pounds on signings and contracts.
TELEGRAPH/Graham Chase
Blackpool can bounce back with Ian Holloway in charge, insists chairman Karl Oyston
Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston has launched a vigorous defence of his club’s pay structure amid fears that the squad could be torn apart and that Ian Holloway could be tempted away following their relegation.
Blackpool can bounce back with Ian Holloway in charge, insists chairman Karl Oyston
The wages of Blackpool’s players will be halved – as will Holloway’s £800,000 salary – after they were consigned to an immediate return to the Championship with a 4-2 defeat at Manchester United on Sunday.
They also missed out on a collective £5 million survival bonus after sharing the same figure for reaching the Premier League last year.
Charlie Adam, David Vaughan and Matt Gilks are sure to depart, while Blackpool supporters fear that others, such as DJ Campbell and Stephen Crainey, will also leave after seeing their pay slashed.
Oyston insists that the system works, though, and claims that he voluntarily doubled the wages of half a dozen players – believed to include Ian Evatt, Gary Taylor-Fletcher and Keith Southern – who did not have a pay-increase clause last summer.
“What’s been implied is that we shouldn’t honour the contracts we have with players,” Oyston said. “Quite a number of the players who are said to be demoralised after having their wages halved are the ones who didn’t have any uplift in their contracts when we came into the Premier League and I voluntarily upped their wages.
“It’s all about risk and reward, it’s a two-way street and I think there were six players, five of who we’ve taken options to retain for the coming season. They’re actually back to where they would have been anyway if I hadn’t doubled their wages.”
Oyston has also rejected suggestions that further prudence in the transfer market this summer could lead to tensions with Holloway, who has won many plaudits for his side’s positive approach to the top flight.
The manager has a year left on his contract and, after the defeat at Old Trafford, he stated his intention to carry on, although his belief is sure to be tested by the imminent loss of as many as half of the team he has built.
“There have been no approaches for our manager and I hope that remains the case,” Oyston said. “We work together rather than one challenging the other, that’s how it should be.
“We have had preliminary discussions with one or two players and that will continue. Now we know our divisional status it gives us that bit more certainty because they know they’re coming to a Championship club, not a Premier League club.
“I’m trying very hard not to put Ian under pressure in a way he would ever feel threatened or not able to make the decisions that he makes freely.
“Hopefully he will pick himself up, he’ll have a couple of weeks away and reflect, recharge his batteries and come back and we can start assembling a team to do well in the Championship.”
Bloomfield Road’s temporary East Stand will remain in place indefinitely, although around 500 seats will be added to one of the corners, while plans for undersoil heating may be put on hold.
Liverpool are expected to renew their interest in Adam, after failing with a £6.4 million offer in January, and Gilks and Vaughan are set to leave on free transfers despite being offered fresh terms.
Wales midfielder Vaughan, 28, is wanted by Everton and goalkeeper Gilks has made it clear that he intends to remain in the Premier League, even referring to Blackpool, who held their awards dinner last night, as “them”.
“A lot of players are out of contract, including myself and a lot of players have earned the right to stay at different Premier League teams and they’ve shown they can do it week in, week out and good luck to them,” Gilks said.
“It’s kind of end of an era at the club and the team will probably break up now but I’m sure that Ian Holloway, the manager that he is, can build another one. For next season at least he is adamant that he is going to stay and hopefully get them back in the Premier League.
“Just like the players, he’s proved that he can manage at the top level and he’s turned the club around, not just the team, he’s turned the whole club around since he came through the door two years ago.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/blackpool/8531900/Blackpool-can-bounce-back-with-Ian-Holloway-in-charge-insists-chairman-Karl-Oyston.html