Darragh defends Newcastle’s ‘massive’ sell on

Posh co-owner Darragh MacAnthony has defended the size of the sell-on clause Newcastle Unitednegotiatedwhen Ivan Toney moved to London Road from St James’ Park two years ago.

The Magpies will have made close to £3 million if Posh have received their £10 million asking price from Brentford for Toney.

Posh paid Newcastle around £350k for Toney in August, 2018.

MacAnthony said: “Newcastle do have a massive sell on which is fine. That’s how business is done in football.

“The big add ons are why we got Ivan so cheap in the first place and anyway I’m happy to help Steve Bruce’s transfer budget this summer!

“Newcastle were great t o d e a l w i t h t wo yea r s ago when we signed Ivan and they were great to deal with again in the last few weeks.

“We actually still owed them £100k on the original deal as we were paying in instalmentssothey’vedonewell out of the way we have developed Ivan!”

Toney movedtoNewcastle from Northampton Town as a 19 year-old in August, 2015. He had scored 13 goals in 60 appearances (29 starts) for his hometown club.

Toney had loan spells at Barnsley (twice), Scunthorpe (twice), Wigan and Shrewsbury before Posh signed him permanently in August, 2018 when Steve Evans was in the London Road hotseat.

Toney made just four substitute appearances for Newcastle in his three years at the Premier League club and failed to score.

Toney has now scored 92 goals in 267 senior appearances (181 starts).

Ivan Toney in his days as a Newcastle player.