Blackpool boss Ian Holloway has launched a scathing attack on the culture of soaring pay and falling standards in the Premier League and claimed it had turned some of the younger players into "monsters".
Blackpool's outspoken manager hit out at what he sees as a growing trend at the highest level of English football and blamed inflated earnings for eroding levels of behaviour on and off the pitch.
Endorsing former chairman Karl Oyston's wage ceiling of £10,000 a week, and insistence on contract clauses halving players' salaries in the event of relegation, he said: "Those lads who are given far too much too early are monsters, in my opinion, and I won't create any more monsters by going down the same road.
"They behave wrongly and don't carry themselves as they should. These young professionals should be acting as role models, but they don't. They get far too much too soon and waste it, and I won't have that here.
"My priority is to put players out on the pitch whose first thought is to do their best for this club, regardless of money, and my chairman, or whatever he is now, totally agrees with that. So when we saw some of the amounts being asked for this summer, it came as quite a shock, I can tell you."
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