The PFA have acted quickly to respond to David Sheepshanks' suggestion this morning that players' wages should have a greater relation to performance and status in future.

The PFA's deputy chief executive Mick McGuire says there is little revolutionary in the Town chairman's suggestions: "What's new about that? There are all sorts of facilities already for clubs to have performance-related pay.

"There are already status payments and bonuses. Incentive-added contracts are already in place.

"What he's trying I don't know. Maybe they're looking to reduce basic wages."

McGuire says that whether players accept arrangements of this type is entirely up to them: "It's for each player to make his own judgement.

"It's supply and demand out there now and it's a buyers' market at the moment."

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