Cash-strapped Parma facing another points penalty

Serie A's bottom club, who were sold for €1 during the week, are set to face further sanctions for failing to pay players and staff

Beleaguered Parma are facing up to the possibility of being docked further points over unpaid wages.
The financially stricken Italian club were hit with a one-point penalty earlier this season for failing to pay players and staff.

Now, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has confirmed that Parma, who are rock bottom of Serie A, have been deferred to the Disciplinary Commission again having failed to pay wages for July, August and September last year.

Parma's former president Tommaso Ghirardi and director general Pietro Leonardi are also facing punishment from the FIGC.

"The first referral is because 'the payments for July, August and September 2014 to the players, workers and those responsible for the sport sector weren’t documented to the federal authorities within the terms stated in the federal rules'," read an FIGC statement released on Friday.

"The second referral has been made because 'the payment of income tax and of contributions Inps (National Social Security Institution) for July, August and September 2014 to the players, workers, and those responsible for the sport sector were not documented to the federal authorities.'"

A Russian-Cypriot consortium bought the club from Ghirardi in December, but they subsequently sold their shares earlier this month with Giampietro Manenti confirmed as president earlier this week.