Duncan Ferguson to work for FREE as Everton legend makes remarkable gesture for crisis club Inverness Caley

Duncan Ferguson will work for free at crisis club Caley Thistle after volunteering to give up his wage to help save the club.

The Everton legend made the remarkable gesture just over a month after accepting a 40 per cent salary cut. His remaining £1200 a week wages, originally £3000 a week when he was lured north, will go towards the £200,000 Caley Jags say they must raise this month to stave off the immediate threat of administration.

Ferguson was talking while the Inverness board was meeting upstairs to discuss the scale of the latest financial threat to the 2015 Scottish Cup winners and former Premiership outfit’s future.

The 52-year-old former Dundee United, Rangers, Everton and Newcastle striker, appointed late last September, said: “I’ve given up my wage to try and help the club. I’m now working for nothing. That’s by the by, it’s my own decision to try and help the club get through all this.

“The players are worried, yes. They have contracts to fall upon, but it is the people around about the stadium, the staff, everyone’s jobs are on the line. I think you know since I’ve been here I’ve taken cuts and reductions.

“Now, when I realised the position the club is in, in needing to raise £200,000 this month, I decided I don’t need to get paid my wage. I’ll work for nothing just now to try and help them through this. The plight of the staff was in my mind. It always is.

“I like to think I’m a caring person and I like to look after my staff and people around about me. At the moment, I’ll get through as best I can and try to keep putting petrol in my car and food on the table.”

Ferguson was offered £3k a week by past CEO Scot Gardiner after the sacking of predecessor Billy Dodds.

He revealed just over a