A huge gift fell at Luton’s feet! Good news arrived for this club and its fans, because the Hatters suddenly, without a game played, found themselves out of the relegation zone.Today, an independent panel fined Nottingham Forest four points for breaching Financial Fair Play rules. That automatically drops the Foresters under the line, as they will now have 21 points, while Luton will overtake them with 22.The immediate loss of points mean Nottingham Forest drop below Luton Town into the Premier League’s relegation zone.Full story: https://t.co/UE4sQz59sg #BBCFootball pic.twitter.com/OKwYsDGYjT— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) March 18, 2024 While the official announcement of the Premier League is awaited, and the news was published before it by all the British media, it has already been announced that Nottingham will appeal. They will surely get a penalty, but they can eventually get less, as Everton did, and as things stand, every point in the fight for survival will be precious.The leaders of Nottingham Forest admitted at an earlier hearing that they had broken the rules of Financial Fair Play, but they had an original explanation: the problem in their books was the sale of striker Brennan Johnson, which did not enter the account. Because the Foresters rejected Brentford’s offer at the beginning of the summer, which was around 35,000,000 euros, because they thought they could do better. And they were right, since on the last day of the summer “market”, September 1, they received 50,000,000 euros from Tottenham. However, such a defense was not accepted by the independent panel.##NAJAVA_MECA_7967224##Nottingham are in a financial pickle because they made a deficit of €63,000,000, and the club bought 42 footballers for more than €250,000,000 since promotion to the Premier League, which led to a complete imbalance in the account.
