Wigan Athletic deducted 3 points (P33)

[CrownPointBlue]

Sympathy for the decent staff, suppliers etc who are adversely affected but not for their hobby scouse manager or wannabe jerk fans.

gobby gobby gobby !

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Wages in the financial year to 2019 (c£20m) were nearly double their £11m turnover. How can the EFL allow a club to do that?

Edit: I didn't realise that Joe Royle is a director and his son Darren is the CEO

 

[manclad]

Wages in the financial year to 2019 (c£20m) were nearly double their £11m turnover. How can the EFL allow a club to do that?

FFP ??

 

[Wanderingwolf]

Has Whelan managed to spin this so that its Deeleys fault yet?

 

[oldhamblue]

Yep and they’ve stripped them dry and left it

Could be similar to Bury. Buy it just to asset strip it.

 

[hertsblue]

Wages in the financial year to 2019 (c£20m) were nearly double their £11m turnover. How can the EFL allow a club to do that?

Edit: I didn't realise that Joe Royle is a director and his son Darren is the CEO

yep. 4 years of parachute payments when they got relegated from the PL to get their act together and still had this crazy wage bill v turnover ratio. New owners I think about 4 weeks ago so how they can blame Brexit and other factors is a joke. So many companies blame failure on anything apart from their own failings

 

[dickie davies]

Will the league change the rules so that we can take over one of the struggling lower league teams and if so who should we go for?

One in London as it would have a huge catchment area

 

[Boris Becker’s Backhand]

Fuck em, I bear grudges

 

[Gaz1105]

I’m from wigan me and I couldn’t give a fuck about that tinpot club, I’m a season ticket holder at the rugby anyway so fuck um, cousins a latics fan and remember him saying how good these new Chinese owners will be, back to the premier league and all that shite - back to the Ryman league more like

 

[WestGorton]

There were 10 clubs in Gr M/c of league or recent league status. It is an accident of time and far too many. There are only three in Merseyside with nowt between Blackpool and Cardiff. Mass catchment area. Widnes...St Helens...Warrington full of dippers. Wigan next.