Paixão ready to take Marseille pay cut as club tighten belts

📰 With Marseille in financial trouble, Paixão has offered to take a pay cut. 📌 Key points 💸 Paixão says he would reduce his salary to help the club. 🤝 He says OM have not yet discussed a pay cut with him. 🏦 Marseille have offered players who stayed new deals on lower terms. 🚫 Owner Frank McCourt has reportedly stopped putting money in. ✈️ Paixão came close to joining Sunderland in the summer. 📝 What happened 🎙️ Speaking to Canal+, Paixão said: "If I have to reduce my salary to help the club, it is the best thing to do… and then increase it." He added that it was simply a case of talking and deciding the best way to do it. 🤝 But he made clear the request has not come yet: "No, no, they haven't discussed a pay cut with me." 🏦 According to Get French Football News, OM's management have been trying to cut the wage bill by offering reduced terms to players who stayed. Foot01 reports that Amine Harit and Geoffrey Kondogbia were approached about pay cuts, and that owner Frank McCourt has decided not to inject any more money into the club. ✈️ Paixão attracted interest from Sunderland and Leeds United in the summer, and the club reportedly wanted to sell him to raise funds. The move never happened, and he stayed. 📊 By the numbers • Players reportedly asked to take pay cuts: Harit, Kondogbia • Paixão's age: 26 • Marseille ended a five-game losing run with a 2-0 win over Troyes 🔭 Why it matters It is rare for a first-team winger to volunteer a sacrifice, but Marseille are fighting poor form and money problems at once. The next questions are whether more players will be asked to take cuts, and whether key names will have to be sold in January.