Wayne Rooney's Derby County - not any more (p41)

EFL make me want to puke,they are corruption personified.

Absolutely stinks. Again. 

So once you sell the family silver and you don’t change your spending what’s left? If Derby don’t get promoted and or find a new mug with hundreds of millions to pump in in the short term they are in a very perilous position. I don’t really want them to disappear But clubs theses need a bit of pain, they cheat the rest of us. 

ForeverAddickted said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57785793

What a joke! 

Derby have e a 3 points deduction suspended for 2021/2022 season for late payment of wages. The deduction will take place if late payment occurs during season. Sheffield Wednesday have a 6 point decuction suspended for the 2021/2022 for late payment of wages on more than one occasion. 

golfaddick said:

Now, just imagine if Sheff Wed were playing their first match of the season against a team whose fans like a good protest......and it was live on tv.

Anyone got any pigs left......??

I've got some beach balls

Miserableoldgit said:

The 72 - We Love the Football League: Derby County owner Mel Morris facing 'new financial crunch' with points penalty looming - Alan Nixon.

https://the72.co.uk/242451/derby-county-owner-mel-morris-facing-new-financial-crunch-with-points-penalty-looming-alan-nixon/

Derby County owner Mel Morris faces a ‘new financial crunch’ as he is being forced to fund the latest bout of wages at the club, reports The Sun on Sunday (18.07.21, pg. 61).

Derby County avoided a relegation earlier in the summer but were dealt a suspended three point penalty for a late payment of their staff and players.

This meant that if Derby County were late in paying their staff once more, the points penalty will come into force for next season.

Now though, an American group has been in talks over a potential takeover at Pride Park but the move is far from complete and Morris now needs to cough up around £2million in wages or ‘face a three-point penalty’, writes Alan Nixon.

But this emerging report contrasts one from April, when Sky Sports reported that Morris had to honour a total £1.2million wage bill for the Derby County playing staff – that means that this new £2million figure either includes £800,000 worth of non-playing staff, or the Rams have nearly doubled their players’ wage bill since then.

The latter though is highly unlikely given that they’ve now got the skeleton of a first-team, which also make that above £2million number seem far too high for the current squad they have.

Either way, Derby County remain in limbo ahead of the upcoming 2021/22 Championship season, in which they could yet start on -3 points.

Times are hard for the Rams and they only seem to be getting more so.

The point deduction won't be applied until Derby are mathematically safe next season. If it's looking dicey at the end of April the penalty will then be pushed further back into 2023 in the interests of 'natural justice'. A month or 2 later the EFL will put out a statement at close of play on a Friday, informing us that the punishment will be suspended as long as going forward the club pay all bills on time. Rinse and repeat.

IdleHans said:

If Rooney is on a reputed 80k per week, half the excess is his anyway.

That's what is so daft about it all. In any other business if one employee was costing you around 50% of your expenditure surely you would either get rid of them or lower their wages. I wonder how long Rooney has left on his contract  ?

Their bread is quite good.

It is totally ridiculous but you can bet that the EFL will lift it for them

EFL will be sad for them and give them 20 points.