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Derby County have been deducted a further nine points after admitting to breaches of the EFL’s profitability and sustainability rules over the £81m sale of Pride Park to former owner Mel Morris, taking their total deductions this season to 21 points.

The club’s administrators confirmed on Tuesday that they have agreed the deduction with the EFL, plus a further suspended three points. A statement on Derby’s website also confirmed that their appeal against a 12-point deduction for entering administration has been dismissed, leaving them facing relegation to the third tier for the first time since the mid-1980s.

“The EFL has today confirmed that Derby County Football Club has received a nine-point sporting sanction with a further three points suspended after admitting to breaches of the League’s profitability and sustainability (P&S) rules,” read the statement. “This matter has been determined under the terms of an ‘Agreed Decision’ reached between the League and the Club and was formally ratified by an Independent Disciplinary Commission Chair as per the requirements of EFL Regulations.

“The club, via its administrators, has also agreed, following last week’s adjournment, to the dismissal of its appeal against the 12-point deduction imposed as a consequence of the club entering administration in September 2021, meaning that the sanction continues to apply. The new nine-point penalty has been applied immediately, resulting in the club having been deducted a total of 21 points from this season’s 2021-22 Championship table.”

The decision leaves Wayne Rooney’s side bottom of the Championship on minus-three points and 18 points adrift of safety.

Carl Jackson, a joint administrator for Derby, said: “This has been a difficult matter to navigate bearing in mind the various issues concerned. Whilst point deductions are never ideal for any club, it was critical to the club’s future that all matters were concluded between the EFL and the club in relation to historical issues. This conclusion allows us to proceed with our restructuring strategy for the club with prospective interested parties.”

 

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The EFL season 2022-23 will start in July to accommodate the World Cup. The schedule was revealed on Monday and showed that the Championship will not break for the whole tournament in Qatar but will resume while the quarter-finals are being played.

All three Football League divisions will open on 30 July 2022, one week before the Premier League. Leagues One and Two will not stop for the World Cup but the Championship will halt after the round of games due to take place on 12 November and will start again on 10 December.

The group stage is due to end in Qatar on 2 December. The schedule raises the possibility of clubs having to play without key individuals. EFL rules allow a club to request a postponement if three players are on international duty and the league said: “Existing international calls postponement criteria will be applied throughout, where necessary.”

The EFL said its regular season would end on 6 May 2023, with the play-off finals scheduled for the 27-29 May.

 

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Reading are to be deducted six points for breaking the English Football League’s financial regulations. The Championship club agreed the punishment with the EFL after they breached profit and sustainability rules, which permit a maximum loss of £39m across three seasons. They will also accept a suspended six-point penalty that would be triggered if they fail to comply with a business plan.

Reading’s reported £41m wage bill in 2018-19 equated to 194% of turnover. The six-point deduction will leave the club 19th, four points above the relegation places. As per league regulations, an “agreed decision” ensures an outcome without the need to refer the matter to an independent commission.

Reading will need to comply with a business plan for the remainder of this season and next to avoid further sanctions. In 2018 Birmingham agreed to a business plan after exceeding the allowed losses and their plan included controlling player-related expenditure. On Monday Reading announced the signing of the former England striker Andy Carroll on a contract until January.

Paunovic said Carroll, who had been without a club since his release by Newcastle, was “a great match” for the club. Reading have been limited to signing free agents and loans since being placed under a transfer embargo. Danny Drinkwater and Scott Dann were among those brought in on frees in the summer. Reading, who were taken over by the Chinese investor Dai Yongge in 2017, were relegated from the Premier League in 2013.

The EFL and Reading declined to comment. On Tuesday the EFL confirmed Derby had been docked a further nine points after admitting to breaching rules over the £81m sale of their Pride Park stadium, leaving the division’s bottom club 18 points from safety.

 

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The Sheffield United manager Slavisa Jokanovic expressed his relief that midfielder John Fleck was “conscious and talking” after he unexpectedly collapsed during the second half of his side’s 1-0 win at Reading. The club announced on Wednesday that the player has been discharged from hospital.

Jayden Bogle grabbed United’s winner but the match was overshadowed by the second-half incident when Fleck went down apparently unchallenged, with his teammates quickly indicating for the medics to run on the pitch to tend to him.

Fleck, 30, received “urgent medical care” according to United’s official Twitter account and, after a 10-minute delay, was taken off on a stretcher and out of the ground to a waiting ambulance.

After the match, United’s manager, Slavisa Jokanovic, said: “I didn’t really see the incident but it looked like he just collapsed, without any physical contact around him. I am not a doctor but the news is positive. It was not an easy situation for everybody.”

On Wednesday morning the club tweeted that Fleck “has been discharged from hospital & will return to Sheffield today. He was conscious when he was taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital and was communicative with club and medical personnel, as well as his family.”

 

 

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Secret talks between the Premier League and the EFL have been held to discuss removing the controversial parachute payments system, with alternatives set to be put to top-flight clubs for consideration.

Discussions have been ongoing throughout the Covid period about how better to organise financial redistribution. Whereas the EFL has targeted parachute payments as a major problem, the Premier League had remained defiant in support of the current system – citing the £1.5bn it transfers down the leagues over a three-year period.

That position has changed, with a number of alternative proposals developed and debated among executives. The pressure is to make those changes a reality.

Parachute payments are given to clubs relegated from the Premier League to cushion the blow of revenue lost from leaving the top flight. The EFL argues this creates competitive distortion, with other clubs spending money they do not have to keep up.

One of the recommendations in the Crouch review, published last week, stated that the Premier League and EFL should come up with a solution to the parachute payments problem by the end of the year, with outside voices then brought in to advise on change if no solution can be agreed.

Although the discussions are understood to be advanced, ideas have not been presented to Premier League clubs or the EFL board. On Monday the Premier League board agreed to hold an emergency shareholders’ meeting this week to discuss the Crouch review.

Under the terms of the domestic TV deal approved by government this year, parachute payments are to remain in place for another three years. On Friday Richard Masters, the Premier League’s chief executive, suggested a softening of his tone on parachute payments. “If there is a way of uniting the clubs in our league and the clubs in the Championship with a new proposal,” he told the BBC, “we should drive for that and we’re happy to work at pace on that project.”

New ideas are likely to be divisive among Premier League shareholders, with parachute payments forming a safety net for clubs committed to big spending in the top flight.

Several Premier League executives have spoken out about the Crouch review, with the vice-chairman of West Ham, Karren Brady, vocally defending the parachute payment system. Arguing that clubs would go bankrupt without the money, she wrote in the Sun that Tracey Crouch had “fallen into a do-gooder trap” by proposing reform. “Maybe Tracey and [EFL chair Rick] Parry confuse competition with fairness,” she wrote.

Brady has been joined by Aston Villa’s CEO, Christian Purslow, and Crystal Palace’s chairman, Steve Parish, in speaking out against the Crouch review, part of an upwardly mobile group of clubs who hold an increasing sway in the league since the failed European Super League plot among the ‘big six’ clubs.

On Monday Parish warned against the implementation of an independent regulator for football, the key recommendation of the Crouch review. Debating the point with Gary Neville on Twitter, Parish said: “Regulators are there so that governments can control markets or companies within a framework they set and can alter. Regulators are instruments of government and they are independant [sic] only up to enforcing the current remit which can be changed at any time by a new act of parliament. So Football will be – under this plan controlled by government.”

 

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16 minutes ago, MadJack said:

Football is, already, under the control of the government. Parish is a moron.

I'm not surprised that Purslow, Parish and Brady were the ones to speak out about it. 

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Former Premier League midfielder Joey Barton has been cleared of pushing over a rival manager at the end of a match, leaving him bloodied and with a broken tooth.

When the Bristol Rovers manager gave evidence last week, Barton, 39, denied it was him who shoved then-Barnsley manager Daniel Stendel in the tunnel after a League One match between his Fleetwood team and the South Yorkshire side at Oakwell on 13 April 2019.

Mr Stendel told a jury at Sheffield Crown Court how he was walking down the tunnel in the corner of the ground after his side’s 4-2 victory when he was knocked over by a push from behind, causing him to hit his face on the metal structure. Video footage shown repeatedly during the trial showed Mr Stendel entering the tunnel followed by Barton, jogging, a moment later.

The jury took under two hours to find Barton not guilty of one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm following a week-long trial.

 

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Looks like Plymouth Argyle manager Ryan Lowe is off to Preston North End, which is a shame. Need a similarly progressive manager to replace him if we're not going to give it to Steven Schumacher full time, which I think would be a good move to be honest.

Seeing the likes of Warnock and Halloway linked and that second one makes me feel kinda sick.

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25 minutes ago, MadJack said:

Looks like Plymouth Argyle manager Ryan Lowe is off to Preston North End, which is a shame. Need a similarly progressive manager to replace him if we're not going to give it to Steven Schumacher full time, which I think would be a good move to be honest.

Seeing the likes of Warnock and Halloway linked and that second one makes me feel kinda sick.

I will have to ask my brother to give Ryan a call and ask what's going on it seems.

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