, Derby County owner Mel Morris facing ‘new financial crunch’ with points penalty looming – Alan Nixon

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.

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