Season › 2011-12 › News Moyes calls for a 20% Pay Cut! Michael Kenrick , 4 March, 32comments | Jump to most recent David Moyes has a bold and radical vision for improving the national sport: ?Everyone in the Premier League takes a 20 per cent pay cut to put football finances back on an even keel and allow a significant reduction in ticket prices to make football more affordable for the ordinary fan.? ?Perhaps the 20 per cent suggestion would cause some mayhem,? says Moyes, ?but I think we need to do something serious. People might say it would be harder to attract players to the Premier League, but we have to take responsibility for the long-term health of football. ?Clubs have to control their money properly and only pay what they can actually afford. People have to be held responsible when things go wrong. ?Every family in the country at the moment has to finance correctly. They can't overspend. Why is football different? ?I'd like to see lower ticket prices so that everybody can afford football. We should be filling all the grounds all the time. If people in football took that 20 per cent pay cut, then lower ticket prices could be one direct result. Football's been around for 150 years and it has come a long way, but we have to make sure we don't take it away from its roots. We must not get too far away from people. ?Look at the kids — we've moved too far away from the roots there. I would advocate allowing top young footballers to go back to playing for their school teams. Taking kids out of school, and just playing with other elite youngsters, has affected discipline. ?I think we need to get back to kids growing up normally, not being banned by football clubs from playing other sports, like cricket, at the age of 14. I think that's terrible. Just let kids play. ?We used to talk about ?over-use' injuries in youngsters because they played too much. Now the danger is that they are nearly not playing enough and not playing just for the fun of it.? Quotes or other material sourced from Sunday Express Reader Comments (32) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. About these ads