Stuart McCall is ready to commit himself again to Bradford City today with the plea: Don't let this team fall apart.

McCall will have to take a pay cut if he accepts the challenge of signing off his career with the Bantams in Division One next season.

Boss Jim Jefferies has admitted more cuts will have to be made to meet the £5million wage limit set by chairman Geoffrey Richmond.

And as McCall discusses his future, his biggest wish is that the dressing room does not suffer too severely from more pruning.

He said: "I really hope next season we can keep most of the lads together. I'm really looking forward to it if we can.

"I've played two years in the Premiership and there's no better place to be. But you know it's going to be a struggle from day one and hopefully next season we can do what we did last time in Division One and entertain and get results.

"We've got no excuses for this season. There have been mistakes made throughout the club and as players we've got to hold our hands up.

"Everyone says your first year in the Premier is so vital and we managed to hang on but this season it just hasn't worked out.

"It would be great for the fans if we could go into games feeling that we will win most of them again."

McCall's knee injury prevented him from training all week before Saturday's 0-0 draw at Coventry but he responded with a magnificent display as an emergency centre-half.

Jefferies said: "A lot of players in that situation wouldn't have played but as Billy Brown said to me on the bench, Stuart is a dying breed.

"He knows his legs have gone a wee bit but he makes up for it with his experience. He has got a heart as big as a lion and is so valuable to us.

"I'm going to make him an offer but whether it's good enough to keep him, I don't know. That's all I've got to work with.

"As I've said all along, we'd like to keep the nucleus of this squad and add to it. But the resources don't allow us and that's the difficult part.

"We've already made some cuts and it looks like we may have to make more which is going to be tough. We're over budget with the wage bill which we could only sustain in the Premier League - that's the unfortunate thing about going down. Whether Beni Carbone goes or not, we still have to reduce the wage bill.

"The chairman has given me a figure to operate within and that's something that we have to do. But you can only sell players and transfer them if other clubs want them and can afford it."