In an interview with the English press, the general manager of Newcastle United admitted that his club may have to find itself selling some of his best players, including Bruno Guimarães who was recently linked to PSG. The Magpies may have to sell in order to be able to balance their accounts with a view to financial fair play.
Regularly caught up by UEFA for about ten years, PSG knows only too well that it is sometimes complicated to comply with the demands of financial fair play and it is another new rich in European football, the English of Newcastle United, who now finds himself in this case. After publishing its comots, the club explained it directly to the British newspaper The Times via one of its leaders.
The club’s general manager, Darren Eales, did not hide the fact that his club might have to sell players in order to respect the conditions of the Premier League’s financial fair play, slightly different from that of UEFA but just as hard. In England, teams cannot have a deficit of more than 105 million pounds accumulated over the last three years and Newcastle is precisely at the limit.
The accounts for the 2022/2023 season were published this Thursday by NUFC and they showed a loss of 73.4 million after taxes that already followed a season where losses had amounted to 72.9 million, or already more than 145 million added together. However, these figures will be significantly reduced in the calculation of the English FPF but the probability of Newcastle giving up one of these stars is very real.
“If we want to achieve our goals, it is sometimes necessary to make player transfers”
Asked specifically about the names of Isak, Botman or Guimarães, Eales did not really close the door: “For any player, at any time, it depends on the circumstances. It is difficult to decide specifically on certain players, but I can say that, if we want to achieve our goals, it is sometimes necessary to carry out player transfers. »
In particular, he explained that the FPF was pushing for this: “Whether it is because of the duration of the contract of the player in question, that the offer is too good to be refused, that you need to replenish yourself in certain areas, all this can justify the exchange of this player. It is counterintuitive and it is part of the system inherent in the FPF to be encouraged to exchange your players if you want to reinvest, because of the nature of the limits. »
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