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Hello and welcome to this extra edition of the Game Podcast where we take a deep dive

on what's happening at Derby County right now with a championship club in deep trouble.

We were joined by the Chief Sports Correspondent at the Times, Matt Lawton, who began by giving

us a full overview of their difficult financial situation.

It's very serious. The fact is the AFL issued a statement towards the end of last week when they

said that their money will run out by February 1st. They quite literally don't have cash

to run the club on a day-to-day basis, to pay the players, to pay the staff,

just to operate as a football club. So it's absolutely a critical point. The cause of this

and Wayne Rooney cut to the chase when his press conference on Friday, the cause of this is

Mel Morris, the guy that bought the club in, what took four charge of the club in 2015.

And I have to say, I interviewed him not long after that, and I interviewed him with Sam Rush,

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