Newcastle do NOT have buy-back clauses in the contracts of Elliot Anderson and Yankuba Minteh, Confidential can reveal.
Anderson’s excellent form of late with third-placed Nottingham Forest has led fans to wonder whether Newcastle included a provision to buy back their academy graduate at a future date.
However, we understand that no such clause exists, and nor does it in the deal that took Minteh to Brighton over the same weekend back in June.
Newcastle were not negotiating from a position of strength in either transfer, given they needed to sell to avoid breaching Profit and Sustainability Rules, which would have led to a points deduction.