City's players are ready to hold back one-fifth of their wages to help the cash-hit club survive next season.

The squad have agreed in principle to take another deferment, believed to be 20 per cent, through the summer and the whole of the next campaign. It is also likely that further payments will be linked to gate receipts.

The full version of this story is in this evening's Telegraph & Argus, and will appear on the website later tonight.