Leeds United Football Club - Players Should Care About The Club - Gray
United caretaker boss Eddie Gray has told his squad their concerns should not be about the club's financial position, but on saving the club from relegation.
Gray has made it clear he wants the players to stop feeling sorry for themselves and think about the people at Elland Road who have mortgages and families to consider, people who don't earn fantastic Premiership wages and who can't just move to another club should they lose their jobs in a worst case scenario.
The boss said there has been too much talk about the threat of administration on the training ground, which saw the PFA brought in earlier this week to allay players fears about what would happen to them and their contracts if the club was to be run under an administration period.
Gray insists the best way for them to help the club is by winning games.
"The players themselves know the situation and they can be a help to the club if they get out of the situation we are in," said Eddie. "They need to try and help the club.
"They are a bit concerned with things that have gone on, but I try and press upon them that they should concentrate on football and everything else will take care of itself whatever happens.
"It has not been any harder for me these past few weeks, and it shouldn't be any different for them. What I am doing is just the same as what I was doing when I came back to the club, and the players should be the same. They go training and get ready to play football matches and that's how it should be.
"We have just been training as normal. The boys wanted the PFA in to clarify their positions and I hope it's helped them with what they had to say."
Gray has told them there are other people at the club they have to consider.
"There's a lot of people work at Elland Road, not just me and the coaching staff that work up here, they will be concerned as well and I worry as much about them as I do about the players because they are all involved in the football club.
"If anything was to happen to our club I am sure the players would find other employment, it might not be so easy for people at Elland Road.
"It's up to us to try and get out and make sure the club survive."
Meanwhile, skipper Dominic Matteo has revealed he would be prepared to take a wage cut should it be necessary.
"If I am going to get a wage loss but I am still playing football, I am not particularly bothered about that to be truthful," Matteo told The Express.
"Maybe some people are but I am not personally."
United caretaker boss Eddie Gray has told his squad their concerns should not be about the club's financial position, but on saving the club from relegation.
Gray has made it clear he wants the players to stop feeling sorry for themselves and think about the people at Elland Road who have mortgages and families to consider, people who don't earn fantastic Premiership wages and who can't just move to another club should they lose their jobs in a worst case scenario.
The boss said there has been too much talk about the threat of administration on the training ground, which saw the PFA brought in earlier this week to allay players fears about what would happen to them and their contracts if the club was to be run under an administration period.
Gray insists the best way for them to help the club is by winning games.
"The players themselves know the situation and they can be a help to the club if they get out of the situation we are in," said Eddie. "They need to try and help the club.
"They are a bit concerned with things that have gone on, but I try and press upon them that they should concentrate on football and everything else will take care of itself whatever happens.
"It has not been any harder for me these past few weeks, and it shouldn't be any different for them. What I am doing is just the same as what I was doing when I came back to the club, and the players should be the same. They go training and get ready to play football matches and that's how it should be.
"We have just been training as normal. The boys wanted the PFA in to clarify their positions and I hope it's helped them with what they had to say."
Gray has told them there are other people at the club they have to consider.
"There's a lot of people work at Elland Road, not just me and the coaching staff that work up here, they will be concerned as well and I worry as much about them as I do about the players because they are all involved in the football club.
"If anything was to happen to our club I am sure the players would find other employment, it might not be so easy for people at Elland Road.
"It's up to us to try and get out and make sure the club survive."
Meanwhile, skipper Dominic Matteo has revealed he would be prepared to take a wage cut should it be necessary.
"If I am going to get a wage loss but I am still playing football, I am not particularly bothered about that to be truthful," Matteo told The Express.
"Maybe some people are but I am not personally."