Newcastle handed England star transfer boost just hours after Eddie Howe blasted ‘frustrating’ window
PETERBOROUGH are set to land about £4million from Ivan Toney’s transfer deadline move – although they must give some of the money to Newcastle.
Toney moved from Brentford to Al-Ahli in Saudi Arabia for £40million on Friday but was in the crowd as the Bees saw off Southampton 3-1.
Posh sold the striker to Brentford for £6m in 2020 although they have banked a further £4m in add-ons.
And they will get a similar amount now, although the League One club will also have to give about £1m of that to Newcastle as part of the deal which took Toney to London Road from the north east in 2018.
Peterborough signed Toney, 28, from Newcastle for just £350,000.
And Toon will be happy to receive a financial boost after a difficult transfer window.
It began with the fear of a 10-point relegation as they stared down the barrel of breaching Profit and Sustainability Rules.
With just 24 hours remaining until the deadline, they managed to raise the £60m needed through the sales of Yankuba Minteh and Elliot Anderson.
But frustrations then turned to incomings.
Eddie Howe was keen to bring England centre-back Marc Guehi in from Crystal Palace.
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But Newcastle failed to reach the £70m asking price, leaving Howe disappointed.
Ahead of his side’s clash with Tottenham on Sunday, The Magpies boss said: “I’m not going to sit here and say it’s been a brilliant window.
“We haven’t had the window we wanted, there’s no denying that.”