Administration-bound Luton Town’s players are currently playing without being paid, and the powers-that-be at The Hatters have decided to leverage this situation to offer the side an extra incentive – as if any were needed – to beat the mighty Reds on tuesday at Kenilworth Road tomorrow to claim the prize of a home tie against Liverpool.
What’s interesting is that if a player isn’t paid for fourteen days then they become a free agent. Naturally I guess the vulture-like football agents around the country will be circling Luton should this become a problem, although bizarrely the club’s administrator, Brendan Guilfoyle said of this:
“In theory, if a player is unpaid for 14 days and has not signed a deferral then they are free agents but it’s facile to believe that situation would ever happen. Let’s say that our most valuable player refused to renew his deferral, we would pay him, it’s as simple as that.”
Hmm, if it’s as simple as that (currently Luton have a one week agreement with their players for a total deferral of wages), then presumably that would mean that there must be some contingency to pay the players baked into the books somewhere anyway. What if all their players didn’t agree to extend this deferral? Very odd.
In-form Nathan Tyson is an injury doubt for us for the cup clash, which is a blow – he suffered some possible cramping in his hamstring at the Brighton game. Smoulds has spoken of being uber-cautious with him, which given his injury record is a sound policy. Whilst a cup game against the Scousers does whet the appetite, I’d rather have Tys available for the league games coming up over the festive period.
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