Premier League clubs ‘expect Nottingham Forest to be docked points’ for breaching spending rules… and are ‘adamant’ they will suffer Everton’s fate when the verdict is delivered next month

Premier League clubs expect Nottingham Forest to have points deducted for breaching the Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR).

Forest and Everton were both accused of breaching Premier League financial rules on January 15.

The Toffees were awarded 10 points in November on a separate charge relating to a PSR breach and subsequently appealed the decision.

A ruling on their appeal is expected this week, while Forest are expected to hear their fate early next month.

And according to The meexecutives at other top clubs believe Forest will become the second team to gain points this season.

Forest – owned by Evangelos Marinakis (above) – were charged by the Premier League in January for breaching financial rules

Forest have climbed to 16th in the table under Nuno Espirito Santo

The report claims a Premier League club CEO is ‘adamant’ he will receive the same punishment as Everton.

All Premier League clubs must comply with the PSR, which states they must not lose more than £105 million in a three-year period.

In the EFL, the rules differ depending on the division a club is in. In the Championship, Profit and Sustainability (P&S), the rules stipulate that clubs can lose up to £39 million over three years.

Given their promotion from the Championship in May 2022, Forest had to play by different rules and their allowable losses were at a lower level of £61 million.

In fact, their top-tier campaign came with a fee of £35 million, with £13 million for each of the two seasons in the second tier.

Forest have reportedly signed 43 players since winning the play-off final in May 2022 and returning to the top flight for the first time in 23 years.

Thirty of those signings came in their first season in the Premier League, where they finished in 16th place, four points above the relegation zone.

As Mail Sport reported last month, Forest’s defense hinges on the sale of Brennan Johnson to Tottenham last August.

The 22-year-old joined Spurs for £47.5 million in August, with Forest booking the full amount as profit under PSR rules as the Welshman was a product of their academy.

Forest will attempt to convince the three-person independent committee that they should be able to backdate the compensation received for Johnson, despite the transfer having gone through two months after the cut-off point for PSR.

Forest are currently sixteenth in the Premier League, four points above the relegation zone, but eighteenth-place Luton still have a game in hand.

A ten-point penalty like the one handed out to Everton would put Nuno Espirito Santo’s team in the bottom three, just one point ahead of bottom dwellers Burnley and Sheffield United.

Speaking last month, the Portuguese, who took over from Steve Cooper at the City Ground in December, insisted Forest would deal with the verdict in due course.

Everton were deducted 10 points for breaching PSR in November last year, sparking an angry reaction from fans

Toffees fans have since regularly protested against the Premier League’s decision

“We have to wait for the decision and then we will work on it,” he said.

‘We’ve known them since I played in the Premier League.

We know that all clubs in the Premier League have been looking closely at the situation and Forest are no exception. I know all the clubs are looking at it – Premier League, Championship, everyone.

“We’re all concerned, but it’s not something I have to think about or deal with.”