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Clubs cut player wages by 50 per cent as A-League war escalates – The World Game
The A-League wage war has reached boiling point with the majority of the 12 club chiefs withholding 50 per cent of salaries today in the latest gambit to force players to accept a radically reduced collective bargaining agreement.
With FFA chief James Johnson monitoring developments and primed to intervene imminently to address the impasse, only Brisbane Roar, Melbourne Victory and impoverished Central Coast Mariners are believed to have paid players their full contractual entitlements for this month.
Lavishly-backed by the cashed-up City Football Group, Melbourne City have – at the time of writing – paid nothing, but have promised to deliver 50 per cent into players bank accounts by Thursday.
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