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Wazza’s deal shows FFP just isn’t working

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The LeaguePaper Team
11 August 2019

Chris Dunlavy

TRANSFER IS EMBARRASSMENT TO EFL
WAYNE Rooney in the Championship? You’d expect the blazers at Football League HQ to be turning cartwheels.
After all, it isn’t every day you get a former England captain and global superstar plying his trade offBroadway.
When the 33-year-old joins Derby County as a player-coach in January, he will bring a level of stardom and scrutiny unprecedented in England’s second tier.
The Rams have already capitalised, bagging a controversial sponsorship deal with bookmakers 32 Red, who will partfund the striker’s £90,000-...

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