Wayne Rooney shares how Everton staff reacted after points deduction
Wayne Rooney has shared how Everton staff behind the scenes reacted to the club being deducted six points for breaching PSR rules.
The Toffees were deducted ten points by the Premier League, later reduced to six on appeal, for breaching PSR rules despite it being decided that they gained no sporting advantage from doing so.
And while appearing live on TNT Sports as a pundit before the game (9 March, 12:05pm), Rooney was asked about what it’s like after his experiences at Derby and revealed he’d spoken to some staff behind the scenes at Everton to find out how they feel.
“It’s very difficult not just for the fans obviously for the players but for the staff who work for the football club behind the scenes,” he said.
“I know many of the staff at Everton who love the football club and they get down, they get frustrated. It’s very difficult for them to process.
“For the players you’re going out there and doing a job, you’re going to play football games. But for everyone else around it’s very difficult.”
Everton were handed an unjust punishment
Even though the punishment was reduced to six points on appeal, it’s hard to see how a sporting penalty for a rule break that gave no sporting advantage makes sense.
Financially Everton have been horribly run for years, and Farhad Moshiri has been chased out of Merseyside as a direct result of it.
But those rule breaks are down to the decisions that him and the board made, not anything that happened on the pitch.
So the fact the players and fans are the ones who have been punished for it with a point deduction, which potentially puts people’s jobs at risk should the team get relegated is an absolute nonsense.
Hopefully it doesn’t come back to bite them and a decision can be made quickly on the new ownership so the club can start to plan for the future, otherwise the anxious feelings will continue.
In other Everton news, one Toffees star failed a late fitness test to play vs Manchester United.
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