Nottingham Forest are under fresh scrutiny after again failing to pay their players and staff on time.

Many of Dougie Freedman’s squad are understood to be furious after the latest financial blunder by the club’s Kuwaiti owners, who have been plagued by off-field problems since completing their takeover in July 2012.

It is believed that Forest recently altered the salary payment date to the last day of the month – as opposed to the previous arrangement of the last Friday – but wages had still not been received at 2.30pm on Tuesday afternoon.

Forest operate without a chief executive and Fawaz Al Hasawi, the chairman and owner, leaves the day-to-day running of the club to an associate, Lalou Tifrit, who is the Head of Finance & Operations at the City Ground.

But there have been frequent issues over late payments, which has resulted in numerous winding-up orders, and this latest mishap will bring further unwanted attention on the Championship club’s ownership.