The Accra Hearts of Oak legend has come to the defence of local footballers and wants the FIFA normalisation committee to create a legislation that forces Ghanaian clubs to pay better salaries to footballers.

Dan Quaye, 37, has seriously lamented over the poor renumeration of local footballers and wants the Kofi Amoah-led normalisation committee to prioritize the welfare of footballers who he describes as the “main actors” of the game.

“Ghanaian footballers are really suffering. You are in Ghana playing the top-flight and you cannot take home more than 1000 ghana cedis a month then what is the point to be a professional soccer player in the first place.” Dan Quaye told Footballmadeinghana in an exclusive interview on Friday.

“When you go to Nigeria there is a regulation that a club cannot pay a professional footballer below a certain figure and I think its 1000 dollars per month or so. Clubs who cannot honor this won’t be allowed to compete and this is what we should look at” the Hearts of Oak great said.

“The players are suffering here and my advice to the normalisation committee is to look at this serious issue. The players are then main actors in the game and their welfare must be taken serious”

“In Ghana many players are only taking peanuts as salaries. Some take as low as 200 Ghana cedis a month and even with that it is not paid on time. We are all players and I know this is what is happening.” Dan Quaye lamented.