However, the team still had enough money to pay its players.

He points to trouble two teams have had recently coming up with money to pay their players.

He has given Chelsea a lot money to pay their players, and buy new ones.

For most leagues, it's against the rules to pay its players to play.

"We pay our players well when they play," he said.

The true test is making people pay attention when there's nothing extraordinary, just the sport itself and its players.

And all that talk about us not having the money to pay players has been blown out of proportion.

Blooming no longer had the capacity to pay its players.

If a team filed for Chapter 11 and couldn't pay its players, would they become free agents?

The contract made him one of the highest paid defensive players in the league.