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The English Football League (EFL) have confirmed that Sheffield United will begin their next EFL campaign with a suspended two-point deduction after the Blades defaulted on a number of payments to other clubs.
The South Yorkshire outfit are rock-bottom in the Premier League table and will begin this weekend’s round of fixtures sitting nine points adrift of safety with just six games to go.
With relegation simply just an inevitability and the club waiting for it to be mathematically confirmed, United could begin the Championship campaign of 2024/24 on minus two points.
The club has also agreed to pay the EFL’s legal costs of £310,455 after it was revealed that the defaults were cumulatively in excess of 550 days.
It is believed that United paid late for at least five members of the squad that helped them gain automatic promotion to the top-flight last season.
Chris Wilder’s Blades, who have shown some signs of improvement of late, will face Brentford at the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
