Rewarding for KDR and Kills is one thing. Paying players off, which is what you did, shows : a) how much people don't want to fight for you, b) how willing you are to sacrifice your clan's name for strat (which in all honesty doesn't last as long as most clans do) and c) how much of a try hard a clan can be.
Just let people sign up for who they want to sign up for instead of pestering them to fight for you with the bribe of gold. This allows players to actually think your are a decent group of people rather than a bunch of try hards who would get extremely butt hurt losing AND having to pay gold to mercs.
TL;DR:
JUST PLAY THE GAME FOR FUN, NOT PRIDE