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Adam Miller

Rangers legend Ally McCoist urges players to take wage cut and save jobs

Ally McCoist has urged Rangers players to take a wage cut during the lockdown.

With football having been suspended, a number of clubs have considered implementing wage cuts.

Reflecting on the time players and staff took cuts in order to safeguard jobs at Ibrox during administration, McCoist urged others to follow suit.

Speaking on talkSPORT, McCoist said: "One of the things that we were extremely proud of when we went into administration at Rangers, was the fact that the playing staff, the coaching staff, the managerial staff rightly took a wage cut to save the jobs of everybody else on the staff.

"One of the most pleasing things to come out of that horrendous situation was the fact they managed to keep everybody's jobs.

"Obviously players left the club eventually on freedom of contract and all that stuff, but to be fair to everybody, everybody took a wage cut. Everybody took a wage cut.

"And I remember one of the older lads coming in. When I say older lads I don't mean a player, an older member of staff, and he was in tears. He was in tears.

"I was talking to him about quarter to eight, eight o'clock one morning and he was telling me that he was going to lose his job, and I had a look at it, and do you know something, I think he was only in three or four days and he was on a couple of hundred quid a week, and I'm thinking to myself, this absolutely cannot be right.

"That's his job. That's what he's been doing for years and years, and they're going to pay him off, rather than get rid of a player or ask a player or manager to take a wage cut.

"So eventually we did, we got all that sorted, and to the credit of the players and the staff, they took a cut and everybody at that particular time kept their job.

"Now, it's not a massive thing, it's just what people should be doing to gather round and help each other.

"We keep going on about, and rightly so, the NHS workers and the essential workers, pharmaceuticals and all these guys and girls that are out doing an unbelievable job.

"They're just doing their bit for us, so if everybody else can't mix in and do a little bit for each other then what chance have we got?"

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