Was wigans not cash flow issues and failing to pay players/staff? Rather than breaching ffp (you could argue that those issues would lead to ffp breaches but at that time it hadn’t).
Wigan Athletic will start the 2023-24 League One season on minus eight points after a suspended points deduction by the English Football League (EFL) was enacted after the club failed to deposit funds to cover its wage bill.
The EFL deducted four points last week after the club failed to pay players for a fifth time, further to previous breaches of league regulations.
It deducted three points from their total this season and has now enacted a further four-point sanction that had been suspended.
The EFL said in a statement on Friday: “Following the failure to ensure that an amount equal to 125 per cent of the club’s forecast monthly wage bill was deposited in a designated club account by Wednesday May 24, as per the order of an Independent Disciplinary Commission, Wigan Athletic Football Club has been deducted a further four points and will now start the 2023-24 season on minus eight points (-8).
“This follows a previous sanction of four points after failing to pay its players’ wages on time in March 2023 and May 2023.