Respect contracts with players - Osei Palmer tells club amid Pay Cut brouhaha

Astute football administrator Wilfred Kwaku Osei ‘Palmer’ has shot down implementing pay cuts insisting that clubs must respect contracts with players.

The Covid-19 pandemic has crumbled the global economy with the impact being felt across the various sectors.

In football the story is no different will clubs adopting measures to stay clear of financial paralysis.

Some top football clubs across Europe like Barcelona, Juventus, Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Borussia Dortmund have all made salary cut arrangements with their players, to avert any financial difficulties this period of CoronaVirus induced inactivity brings.

In Ghana, the discussion has taken a different twist with suggestions of pay cut being shot down by several quarters. The meagreness of the earnings of local players has been at the center of all salary slash rejection talks.

Asante Kotoko became the first club to take the bold step towards implementing salary cuts but the move has hit a snag after players reportedly objected.

Wilfred Osei Palmer who owns Tema Youth Football club (division one club) believes slashing salaries of players in this period isn’t the best decision to take in the local football setting.

He told Joy Sports, “when you look at the fact that, the highly paid division one player is taking about 800 Ghana cedis, and looking at the current economic circumstances why are you going to do a pay cut for such a person”

“When after the Covid-19, prices of items are sky-rocketing, how would such a player be able to survive” he questioned.

Wilfred Osei Kwaku ‘Palmer’ believes such decisions should come after a proper dialogue between clubs and players.

He asserts that clubs cannot force salary cuts down the throat of players and has stated emphatically that contracts should always be respected.

“When it comes to contractual obligations between clubs and players, it borders on two parties”.

“And one cannot unilaterally cut down whatever initial arrangements that were made”.

“We need to continue to respect the sanctity of such contracts and honor all part of it”, he said.

All football activities in Ghana has been suspended owing to the CoronaVirus outbreak in the country.