England’s players could have to wait until after the Women’s World Cup for the stand-off over bonuses to be resolved, as there is still no sign of a breakthrough in negotiations between the Football Association (FA) and Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA), who are representing manager Sarina Wiegman’s group.
The tournament begins on 20 July and the dispute centres on the squad’s argument that the governing body should already have in place an agreed performance-based bonus structure that is independent of the Fifa prize money, in the same way that both Australia and the USA teams do.
