Michael Owen and his
team-mates will be hit in the pocket by Newcastle's latest
cost-cutting move - after being to told to pay for their own club
suits.
Fed-up owner Mike Ashley is slashing every penny he splashes out
on his millionaire players.
And now stars will have to
fork out for their own smart away-day outfits rather than the club
providing their clobber.
Other perks may also go as
Ashley tries to run Toon as a business.
Season-ticket prices at St
James' Park have already rocketed by an average of 10 per cent.
The cost of a seat in the
upmarket Platinum Club has soared by £206 to more than £900 a
season, and some cheap seats have been put up 13 per cent.
Pay rises and fat new deals
are on hold - which could see Steven Taylor and James Milner
leave.
Ashley also wants to weed out his £60,000-a-week earners and
slash the £80million wage bill which is eating up 70 per cent of
all the cash the club makes.
He has already slashed
£5m-a-year from the salaries with the sale of £60,000-aweek earner
Emre to Fenerbahce for £4m, David Rozehnal to Lazio for £2.9m, and
releasing Stephen Carr.