Players volunteering to take salary cuts?

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One of my mates who watches American sports was telling me about how players in the NFL take voluntary pay cuts to help their teams with salary caps (their teams have a set amount they can spend annually on salaries). I know in the NFL, all the power is in the hands of the team owners and there is a lot more equity in football.

Brings me to my question about certain players.

Take Mangala for example: On massive wages, but seems like someone who really wants to make it...and with us. I believe that given time, it will click for him and he would've been afforded more time if he didn't cost so damn much! Now that we have Pep, I'd assume players would bend over backwards to be a part of the project.

Could some highly motivated guys like Mangala take a drastic step and tear up their existing contract and sign a new deal paying them less? Then if they turn out to be great, negotiate again? I know agents would die at the thought, but if the player wants to do it...

Sorry for the long-winded post about something purely hypothetical. Just got me thinking and wanted to know what everyone else thought.
 
I don’t agree with how much footballers get paid, however if my boss asked me to take a drastic pay cut, so I could prove myself I’d tell him where to go.
 
Players rarely in the US take an actual pay cut. Typically they just restruscture their contract to get paid less in the present and more in the future. They still get paid the original agreement. However, several players do take pay cuts each season and teams will shop a player around for a trade at his current wages and when no one bites, the team will go back to the player and offer a new, lower wage packet or else they will just cut them and absorb the "guaranteed" amount of the original contract. It's just not very frequent.

What you will also see is that when a player is a free agent, he will take less money to go to a team with more talent to win something than to a team where he can make more money and lose all of the time. However, this is not a "pay cut" as the player is out of contract.

It's near impossible to compare salary cap leagues of the US to non-cap sports. For example, in baseball there is no salary cap and players never take pay cuts.

If someone wants to pay you £100k per week even if you don't think you are worth it, you take the money.
 
Forget asking them to take a paycut - set up a structure where all players are paid relative salaries, but they can make their wages up by performance related pay individually and as a team
 
Not going to happen. If a player takes a pay cut I'd imagine that means less money for the parasite that is his agent. Therefore the only discussion will be about a rise or a transfer.
 
Get some of your points about players like Yaya and Kola. Also, I agree it will never happen - thanks to the cockroaches a.k.a players agents

I was likening Mangala to some players that have pushed for moves to play for their dream team/managers, or even decided to sit idle for 6 months (Turan) just so he could play for Barca. Was wondering if the Pep factor was enough motivation for younger players with unfulfilled potential to take a drastic measure. Presumably, if Mangala gets moved on, his salary will be cut significantly. Why not take the cut here?

I like Mangala and think his rope has been cut very short because of his price tag.
 
All of our players have already done this.

Remember the rake of new contracts over the past 2 years? Took all players down to 80k basic. Everything else they are due was incentivised. Which makes some performances all the more baffling.
 
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