{"id":667990,"date":"2026-07-01T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667990\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:25:09","slug":"hull-city-avoid-points-deduction-by-selling-ivor-pandur-aidon-shehu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/667990\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull City avoid points deduction by selling Ivor Pandur & Aidon Shehu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hull City avoided the threat of a points deduction in the Premier League by selling goalkeeper Ivor Pandur and midfielder Aidon Shehu hours before Tuesday’s deadline.<\/p>\n

The Tigers returned to the top flight by beating Middlesbrough 1-0 in the Championship play-off final<\/a> in May, earning guaranteed riches of about \u00a3200m.<\/p>\n

But profit and sustainability regulations (PSR) created the situation whereby a club set to receive significant funds had no choice but to sell players before the accounting period ended on 30 June.<\/p>\n

The EFL’s PSR restrict Championship clubs to losses of \u00a339m over three years. Hull had an overspend of about \u00a36m for the period to 2025-26.<\/p>\n

The club faced being deducted up to six points<\/a> in the Premier League if they failed to erase the deficit.<\/p>\n

Only the profit on transfers counts towards the PSR calculation.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday evening Hull announced the sale of first-choice keeper Pandur to Rangers for \u00a36m.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old, who cost \u00a31.5m from Fortuna Sittard in January 2024, won three of the club’s player of the year awards in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday morning Hull confirmed that Shehu had been sold to Panathinaikos for a reported \u00a32.5m.<\/p>\n

The sale of the 19-year-old – signed from Southend United two years ago for a small compensation figure – is effectively pure profit for Hull’s PSR calculation.<\/p>\n

The Albania Under-21 international did not make a first-team appearance for Hull and spent the end of last season on loan at Scarborough Athletic.<\/p>\n

The two deals equate to about \u00a37m of profit.<\/p>\n

Hull were expected to sell Kyle Joseph to Middlesbrough for \u00a35m to clear the deficit, but a snag between the clubs meant it could not be completed on time.<\/p>\n

The PSR concerns have prevented Hull from making any new signings before the new season.<\/p>\n

Transfer activity will now ramp up from Wednesday when the new accounting period begins.<\/p>\n

PSR is being replaced by a new system called squad cost ratio (SCR).<\/a><\/p>\n

Rather than assessing losses over a three-year period, it allows clubs to spend 85% of the income they generate on their squads and is assessed annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hull City avoided the threat of a points deduction in the Premier League by selling goalkeeper Ivor Pandur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-667990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}