It is being widely reported that Newcastle United need to raise funds by the close of play on Sunday in order to come in under the Profitability and Sustainability Rules three-year allowable loss limit.
Newcastle are said to be about £30million over their limit which means they will need to sell a player for £30million plus before Sunday's cut-off point.
That looked to be going ahead with the double deal between Newcastle and Everton mooted yesterday which would have seen the Toffees land Yankuba Minteh with Newcastle bagging Dominic Calvert-Lewin before talks broke down.
Now finance expert Stefan Borson has told Football Insider that he has seen the numbers and he can confirm that Newcastle are at risk of a points deduction.
Last season Nottingham Forest received a points deduction for breaching PSR and Everton were slapped with two separate points deductions with the first being a hefty 10 points before an appeal saw it lowered to six before being hit with a further two later on.
Newcastle could now be weighing up the notion of just accepting their fate and taking their punishment on the chin rather than panic selling to comply with the rules to which they, and many other clubs are so opposed with Borson suggesting as much too.
“It’s quite interesting Newcastle. Either they have a plan B or they are preparing to deliberately fail PSR for the current season and take the penalty, which is always possible of course.
“They do look like they need to sell on paper. There are only a few days left.
“It’s hard to say which way they are going to go. But they do look like they are short for the current season.
“It will be interesting to see what they do over the next few days. They have been surprisingly quiet I think.
“On the numbers I’ve seen, and they are only projections, but on those projections, they do seem to need to sell before 30 June.”
Newcastle are one of several clubs looking to make hurried deals that make no sense on paper all in the name of compliance.
If everyone took the same stance of just accepting a points deduction, it would show the rules to be the farce that they are with so many clubs starting next season on negative points.
Whether this would force a re-think or not is uncertain and probably not a risk most clubs would be willing to take, but at some point the Premier League has to look at what's going on and start to question if what they're doing is right.
PL | GD | PTS | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Liverpool
|
10 | 13 | 25 |
2 |
Manchester City
|
10 | 10 | 23 |
3 |
Nottingham Forest
|
10 | 7 | 19 |
4 |
Arsenal
|
10 | 6 | 18 |
5 |
Aston Villa
|
9 | 5 | 18 |
6 |
Chelsea
|
9 | 8 | 17 |
7 |
Brighton
|
10 | 3 | 16 |
8 |
Bournemouth
|
10 | 1 | 15 |
9 |
Newcastle United
|
10 | 0 | 15 |
10 |
Tottenham Hotspur
|
9 | 8 | 13 |
11 |
Brentford
|
9 | 0 | 13 |
12 |
Fulham
|
9 | 0 | 12 |
13 |
Manchester United
|
9 | -3 | 11 |
14 |
West Ham United
|
10 | -6 | 11 |
15 |
Leicester
|
10 | -4 | 10 |
16 |
Everton
|
10 | -7 | 9 |
17 |
Crystal Palace
|
10 | -5 | 7 |
18 |
Ipswich
|
10 | -11 | 5 |
19 |
Southampton
|
10 | -12 | 4 |
20 |
Wolves
|
10 | -13 | 3 |