£2.3 million to Keogh

[MadAmster]

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.

[swaledale]

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.

How? He didn't get another job until after his contract with Derby finished, therefore he is entitled to his salary until his contract ended.

[MadAmster]

How? He didn't get another job until after his contract with Derby finished, therefore he is entitled to his salary until his contract ended.

Keogh's Derby contract, prior to the sacking, ran until June 2021. He joined MK Dons in August 2020 and Huddersfield in January 2021. Both contracts coincide with the dates of his Derby contract.

[swaledale]

Keogh's Derby contract, prior to the sacking, ran until June 2021. He joined MK Dons in August 2020 and Huddersfield in January 2021. Both contracts coincide with the dates of his Derby contract.

I thought it was 2020, but it seems you are correct. In such cases the compensation is generally set at recouping the loss as a result of the unfair dismissal.

[eddy779h34]

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.

I agree
How can he be paid up for his entire contract length and also earn money form from a new employer . its like he has been paid twice for something he did wrong and brought on himself

If he had stepped in front of a bus out shopping he should get his contract paid up if we sack him, but getting in a car drunk with another drunk driving, when the club laid on taxi's is surely reasonable to be sacked, as club captain he should set an example
Derby should take it to the Courts and sue him back