Former vice president of the Ghana Football Association, Fred Pappoe has said the structure of Black Stars players receiving appearance fees before participating in tournaments should be tweaked.
According to him, it will be more proper for the players to earn their bonuses from their performance.
He expounded that, a team that gets eliminated at the group stage of a tournament should not receive the same appearance fee as the team that gets eliminated at the semis.
The experienced football administrator speaking at the E sports summit in Accra on Wednesday suggested that players should rather receive based on the stage they play up to.
“We need to tweak appearance fees to be focused on performance and output. We don’t need to keep it at the same amount or package all the time,” he stated at the maiden e-Sports Summit organized by e.tv Ghana on the topic;“Financing the National Team; The Bonus and Appearance Fee Structure and its Sustainability.”
Let us say generation A appears and reaches the final stages of the Afcon, either losing or winning and are awarded $20,000, do we think it will be fair to also reward generation B the same amount after being kicked out from the group stages? It won’t be fair.
We need to tweak the appearance fee to be more of performance. The better you perform, the more you get. I don’t subscribe to the blanket stage where you reactive huge sums in appearance fear regardless of performance. I don’t think it is fair and I think it is something players themselves will ascribe to,” he said.
