Ervine and Williams flee the coup.

ZC either has money or it doesn't. It gets big injections every four years and has just had another. Budget sensibly a nd pay wages on time. Basic administration makes everyone a lot calmer - either there is incompetence or evil going on inside the place.

FlowerPower wrote:Say we could offer Ballance a central contact of US$120K p.a. and a 50K franchise contract (Total of 170K), have a core group of say 15 on similar contracts, $2.55M p.a.You could have say 5 on the brink on B contracts of say 120K (60 National +60 Franchise)

giving $0.6M. The rest could be on franchise contracts (5 franchises x20 Players at 60K = 6M). Total of under US$10M per year. Then stick to paying the players!

Yes initially this will cost, but if we address the vultures and are strategic in our thinking, i.e. forward thinking with an investment mentality as opposed to the vulture culture of "kill the goose and quicken the golden egg" approach, we may get somewhere. Simplistic? Yes, but it is a start and a blue print we wont get anywhere with the current always starting approach. I'd say with such a set up we'd have a competitive squad in 3/4 years.

We may need a deep pocketed friend for those three years, Econet (come on Strive it change for you!), Supersport? Bill Gates foundation? Anyone...

That is a huge amount of money. $120,000 for a guy who hasn't even played an international match?

We've ascertained that the top Bangladeshi players would be on about $20,000.

I think Jemisi's estimate is closer to the mark. It is roughly what I was thinking too - $700,000 distributed among 15 centrally contracted players means most players would be earning Western salaries.

I was working on a 25% income for players out of the $11m + that ZC gets over the four year cycle.