Ross McCormack delight as Aston Villa flop gets £30k-a-week pay increase due to promotion… despite not playing for club in 615 days

ROSS McCORMACK’s agents expressed their joy on Twitter after Aston Villa’s promotion to the English Premier League saw the striker’s wages increase to £70,000 a week.

The ex-Motherwell and Rangers star – who was reportedly earning £40,000 a week – hasn’t kicked a ball for Villa since September 2017 but is under contract with the newly promoted side until next summer.

The Daily Mirror claims as much as £4million of the club’s £180m top-flight windfall will be paid to players who have been out of favour this season.

Part of that includes an extra £30,000-a-week to McCormack despite him not playing for the club in 615 days and having no role in their promotion to the top flight.

McCormack’s reps Storm Sports X wrote on Twitter: “Congratulations To Ross McContract On Promotion To The Premier League.

“#rossmccormack #astonvilla #villa #mccormack #stormsportsx #rossmcontract #premiership @AVFCOfficial.”

The 32-year-old returned to Motherwell on loan in January but made played just four times because of injuries.

In April, boss Stephen Robinson confirmed the former Scotland international didn’t have a future at Well, saying: “He won’t be back.”

Well were McCormack’s fourth loan club in just two years.

That followed spells with Nottingham Forest, Melbourne City and Central Coast Mariners, where he famously teamed up with Usain Bolt.

He cost Villa £12m when they bought him from Fulham in 2016.