Birmingham City have asked their players to take a pay cut in a bid to protect the club's short-term future.
Players earning over £6,000 a week at the club have reportedly been told to take a 50 percent deduction in their salary for the next four months.
Birmingham's board have asked players to accept a cut of half their monthly wages until June this year, according to a report in The Telegraph, with the salaries to be paid back in four instalments when the EFL season resumes.
The Birmingham email reads: "Given the unprecedented circumstances we find ourselves in as a football club, as a business and as a country as a whole, we are reaching out to you in order to request your agreeance to a short-term deduction in wages in order to assist the club to continue to run on a day-to-day basis in the current climate."
According to the report, Birmingham have a number of players earning in excess of £6,000 a week, including on-loan Aston Villa striker Scott Hogan, goalkeeper Lee Camp and striker Lukas Jutkiewicz.
The club are not expected to be alone in their stance, with other Championship sides reportedly preparing to ask their own players to take wage cuts or deferrals as clubs begin to feel the pinch.
Officials from the 24 clubs will hold another meeting on Thursday as the English Football League to discuss what steps to take next.
