Could the EL benefit??

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£1 equates to roughly 5 zl. That makes his pay cut around £100,000, if we go on what's been reported.

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In fairness to young badge, the Zloty was re-denominated in the 1990s, with 10,000 old zloty becoming 1 new zloty. The Poles are thinking about joining the Euro, with a target date of 2012, although that seems awfully optimistic.

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Andreas Jonsson is quoted in one of the Swedish papers as saying this:

As I understand it is Gollob's, and the other Gorzow riders contracts, are written in euros as compensation, and not in the zloty that I have in Bydgoszcz.

He goes on to say that as the value of the Euro has soared he doesn't think it's as bad as it sounds (Gollob's reduction.)

And further down the article:

Even Jonsson's team has noticed the financial crisis. He has been forced to reduce staff numbers in AJ Racing from four to two.

www.vimmerbytidning.se

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Mar 11, 2009 20:08:35 GMT @badge said:

Mar 11, 2009 19:06:52 GMT @kevh said:

You must understand this is a wild guess Badger, but I'd wager a Polish rider, riding in the Polish League would be paid in Polish Zloty.

I can't help being a dipstick can I??? Having never been to Poland I wasn't sure if they had gone Euro , but expect the zloty are a bit like the Italian Lira used to be, a zillion to the pound

Not quite, there's about 5 zloty to the pound, so the million zloty Tomasz is still getting would equate to about £200,000...... almost certainly retaining his position as 'the highest paid sportsman in Poland'.

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I may be reading this wrongly, but it looks like Sweden is trying to impose a 25% reduction in payments to riders:

www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2009/03/26/szwedzkie-kluby-obnizaja-pensje-zuzlowcow/

The headline is "Swedish clubs lower speedway salaries".

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So, Nicki P clubless in Poland and Greg Hancock could be following suit. Where else could they ride in Poland? Well, options are limited, that's for sure, since clubs in Poland are only allowed to field a maximum of two GPers in the team at a given meeting.
Torun have no GPers in their squad, so they have the room, but possibly not the inclination. They passed up Hans Andersen and his demands were unlikely to be in the same region as Messrs Pedersen and Hancock.
Leszno have one GPer, but are unlikely to be interested as they already have a strong and settled squad.
Zielona Gora have two GPers already in Fredrik Lindgren and Grzegorz Walasek.
Czestochowa was the club both Nicki P and Hancock were scheduled to race for and they gave up GPer Sebastian Ulamek to keep the foreign duo.
Wroclaw have two GPers in the shape of Jason Crump and the global superstar.
Gorzow have two GPers in Tomasz Gollob and Rune Holta.
Bydgoszcz have two GPers in Andreas Jonsson and Emil Sajfutdinov.
Gdansk also have two GPers in Hans Andersen and Kenneth Bjerre.
So, distinctly limited options for Nicki P and Hancock - they're no longer in the "box seat". The clubs are holding all the cards, so it seems and in the current climate they look unlikely to agree to the demands of the riders.