Newcastle United managed to agree a deal with Everton to sign Anthony Gordon a year ago and Sean Dyche alluded to that sale in mitigation as he discussed the Toffees’ financial issues
                                                  Anthony Gordon continues to impress at NUFC
Sean Dyche has insisted that Everton would not have ‘normally’ sold Anthony Gordon to Newcastle United – only for the club’s financial issues to force the Toffees’ hand.
Having already been handed a 10-point deduction for the losses made in 2021-22, which Everton are appealing, the Merseysiders have since been referred to an independent commission for alleged breaches of profit and sustainability rules in last season’s accounts. The Premier League said in a statement this week that Everton and, indeed, Nottingham Forest have ‘each confirmed that they are in breach’ with top-flight sides allowed maximum losses of £105m over a three-year period.
Everton’s latest accounts, which have not been published yet, cover the period Gordon was sold to Newcastle for a fee that could rise to £45m and Dyche alluded to that mid-season sale when discussing the club’s latest charge.
“I have been here approaching a year and in my timeline and certainly by the recent stats and facts, I think we’re in the bottom three or four net spend over the last three or four seasons so there’s the start point of the club motioning to do things correctly,” the Everton boss told reporters. “Since I’ve been here, we let players go out of contract. Some we would have kept but we couldn’t do that.
“We have been working hard to lower everything here. We sold three young players in the timelines we were given to make sure the money was in. We wouldn’t normally have sold those young players quite obviously.”
