Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Hmmm...club captain knowingly asks for or accepts (?) - we’ll never know - lift home from over the limit driver. The journey ends in a car crash and as a result the club captain cannot play (work) for the following nine months...aka the rest of the season.
Justifiably annoyed owner, and wage payer, suggests player/senior employee accepts reduced wage (alleged to be a mere £12k per week) during the period he is unable to play.
Player doesn’t accept this and declines the offer before leaving the club and eventually gaining alternative employment and is then declared eligible for £2.3m in compensation.

Must be the difference between legality and morality. Perhaps someone could explain what our former hero is being ‘compensated’ for.
If I was paranoid I'd say because we are Derby County and we seem to be gaining the same kind of NOLU that Millwall would claim a patent on.

The real answer will be that the courts have found that RK was illegally sacked by DCFC. £2.3M divided by his weekly wage of £24K comes to 96 weeks. Isn't that the amount of time he had left on his contract (Sept 2019 until June 30th 2021)? Derby have been found to have broken that contract and have been ordered to pay it off. It would seem logical to us to subtract what he's subsequently earned at MK and Hudders but I'm not sure how the Law on that works. It may be that those MK/H wages have been subtracted and that there is a punitive element to the award. We fans will never know.