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WANDERERS chairman Ken Anderson will meet with the PFA and representatives of the squad and coaching staff to address the club’s ongoing pay dispute.
A meeting has been scheduled for next week to allow players to address their concerns face-to-face with the club owner.
The dispute has centred around the non-payment of bonuses, due in June. Players claim no warning was given that money owed for retaining Championship status, loyalty bonuses, appearances and goals would not arrive when pay was issued on the last day of the month.
Assurances were then given that the money would arrive in accounts a week later – but Anderson claims he pulled the payments after feeling “blackmailed and threatened” by the squad’s threat to pull out of a friendly against St Mirren.
The game was cancelled, with players issuing a joint statement which claimed they were put in an “impossible situation” by Anderson, adding that this was not the first time payments had been late in arrival without warning.
Anderson made his own statement, saying punishment – most likely fines - would be handed out to the players involved. It is claimed he wanted a public apology and for players to repay fans money they lost on the cancelled friendly.
The PFA came in to mediate the row at the start of the week, with chief executive Gordon Taylor – a former Wanderer – taking a lead role in the talks.
News that a meeting has been arranged is the first sign of a thawing of the ice between Anderson and the squad.
Wanderers will play at AFC Halifax Town tomorrow, in what will be the first glimpse of the senior squad this summer.
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A meeting has been scheduled for next week to allow players to address their concerns face-to-face with the club owner.
The dispute has centred around the non-payment of bonuses, due in June. Players claim no warning was given that money owed for retaining Championship status, loyalty bonuses, appearances and goals would not arrive when pay was issued on the last day of the month.
Assurances were then given that the money would arrive in accounts a week later – but Anderson claims he pulled the payments after feeling “blackmailed and threatened” by the squad’s threat to pull out of a friendly against St Mirren.
The game was cancelled, with players issuing a joint statement which claimed they were put in an “impossible situation” by Anderson, adding that this was not the first time payments had been late in arrival without warning.
Anderson made his own statement, saying punishment – most likely fines - would be handed out to the players involved. It is claimed he wanted a public apology and for players to repay fans money they lost on the cancelled friendly.
The PFA came in to mediate the row at the start of the week, with chief executive Gordon Taylor – a former Wanderer – taking a lead role in the talks.
News that a meeting has been arranged is the first sign of a thawing of the ice between Anderson and the squad.
Wanderers will play at AFC Halifax Town tomorrow, in what will be the first glimpse of the senior squad this summer.
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