newcastle cost-cutting
Newcastle players told to fork out for their own club suits
By Simon Bird 14/06/2008
(What's this?)Michael Owen and his team-mates will be hit in the pocket by Newcastle's latest cost-cutting move - after being to told to pay for their own club suits.
Fed-up owner Mike Ashley is slashing every penny he splashes out on his millionaire players.
And now stars will have to fork out for their own smart away-day outfits rather than the club providing their clobber.
Other perks may also go as Ashley tries to run Toon as a business.
Season-ticket prices at St James' Park have already rocketed by an average of 10 per cent.
The cost of a seat in the upmarket Platinum Club has soared by £206 to more than £900 a season, and some cheap seats have been put up 13 per cent.
Pay rises and fat new deals are on hold - which could see Steven Taylor and James Milner leave.
Ashley also wants to weed out his £60,000-a-week earners and slash the £80million wage bill which is eating up 70 per cent of all the cash the club makes.
He has already slashed £5m-a-year from the salaries with the sale of £60,000-aweek earner Emre to Fenerbahce for £4m, David Rozehnal to Lazio for £2.9m, and releasing Stephen Carr.
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