Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Sports, Youth and Culture, Alex Agyekum has advised players in the domestic leagues to compromise and accept pay-cuts amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
With football activities suspended due to the widespread of the novel disease coupled with the lockdown, which has put all activities of football on hold, there have been calls on players to agree to slash their salaries.
All over the world, most players have been urged to empathize with administrators to save their clubs from financial constraints by accepting to reduce their remuneration.
There has been similar suggestions for local-based players to replicate same gesture as the domestic teams also face those challenges.
Last week, the hierarchy of the Ghana Football Association and GHALCA – a welfare body of the clubs – approached government to solicit for funds from the COVID-19 disease stimulus package to assist clubs to lessen their financial burdens.
But the Member of Parliament for Mpohor has urged club officials to engage their players about the need to sacrifice a portion of their salary in this conundrum times.
He told Asempa FM Sports: “I have this piece of advice for the players, they should condole with the club owners.
“They should sit down with management and come to a compromise (about salary reduction ).
“So that this COVID-19 crisis won’t decimate the clubs, gradually when things get back to normal, the clubs will bounce back.
“The clubs give them bonuses in good times, so why can’t they accept to compromise in difficult times. They should not insist on taking what exactly is on their contract forms. That wouldn’t be right,” he noted.
