Derby County of England defender, Fikayo Tomori will join his pals for the English Championship promotion play-off final on May 27, in a game against Aston Villa that will be worth £170m for the winners.
Tomori starred for all 90 minutes of The Rams dramatic victory away to Leeds United, as they romped back from 1-0 down from the first leg at Pride Park, and now aim for the English Premier League ticket at the expense of Villa.
Derby’s epic win over Leeds on Wednesday means Tomori and his pals, who include fellow-Nigerian-born defender, Ikechi Anya and one-off free-agent trialist, Efe Ambrose, will face last season’s losing finalists in the showpiece game next Sunday at Wembley.
At the opposing end will be another Nigerian-born in-form star, Tammy Abraham, who is at Villa on loan from Chelsea, the London-based English Premier League club that also produced Derby’s coach, Frank Lampard.
They will all line out at a venue where Lampard enjoyed huge success with Chelsea, alongside Villa’s assistant coach, John Terry, whose side got to this stage through the skin of their teeth on Tuesday with a tough penalties’ shoot-out victory over West Bromwich Albion.
Sky Sports reports that, according to Deloitte, the winners will benefit from future additional revenue of approximately £170m across the next three seasons.
This is a combination of extra revenue they will earn from playing in the Premier League in 2019/20 – at least an extra £95m, mostly from central distributions.
Added to this are parachute payments in 2020/21 and 2021/22, should they be relegated after one season, totaling an estimated £75m across two seasons
The report adds: “If the play-off final winners can stay in the Premier League for a year, that £170 actually becomes a minimum of £300m.
“(This consists) of £200m from two years in the top flight, plus around £100m from three years of parachute payments.
“Clubs who stay in the Premier League for more than one year receive an extra year of parachute payments.”
