Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been banned from all football-related exercise for eight months over breaches of betting guidelines.
Toney, charged by the Football Association in November with 262 alleged breaches over a four-year interval, has been suspended with “rapid impact” by the English governing physique.
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The 27-year-old England worldwide is banned till mid-January and has been fined £50,000 ($62,000) after he admitted to 232 of the breaches.
“Ivan Toney has been suspended from all soccer and football-related exercise with rapid impact for eight months, which runs as much as and together with 16 January 2024, fined £50,000 and warned as to his future conduct for breaches of The FA’s betting guidelines,” an FA assertion stated on Wednesday.
“The Brentford FC ahead was charged with 262 breaches of FA Rule E8 in complete between 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021. The FA subsequently withdrew 30 of those breaches and he admitted to the remaining 232.”
An unbiased regulatory fee imposed the sanctions on Toney, who won’t be allowed to coach along with his Brentford teammates till September 17.
BRENTFORD, ENGLAND – APRIL 29: Ivan Toney of Brentford seems to be on through the Premier League match between Brentford FC and Nottingham Forest at Brentford Community Stadium on April 29, 2023 in Brentford, England. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images
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Toney will miss Premier League Brentford’s final two fixtures this season, at Tottenham on Saturday and in opposition to Manchester City on the ultimate day of the marketing campaign.
Toney, capped as soon as by England, in opposition to Ukraine in March, has scored a formidable 21 targets in 35 appearances for west London facet Brentford this season.
Although he featured in an England squad earlier than final 12 months’s World Cup, Toney was not noted of Gareth Southgate’s squad for the event in Qatar.
His absence will probably be an enormous blow for the staff after his targets performed a key function of their rise to ninth place within the Premier League heading into the final two video games of the marketing campaign.
Brentford will look forward to the publication of the written causes for Toney’s ban earlier than taking their “subsequent steps”.
“Brentford FC notes the choice of an unbiased Regulatory Commission to concern an eight-month ban from all soccer and football-related exercise to Ivan Toney with rapid impact,” an announcement stated.
Brentford boss Thomas Frank should now think about how he’ll cope with out Toney. (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images
“Brentford FC is at present awaiting the publication of the written causes of the unbiased Regulatory Commission. We will evaluation them earlier than contemplating our subsequent steps.”
Speaking in December following the announcement of the FA’s costs, Brentford boss Thomas Frank had stated: “We don’t have something particular lined up if one thing ought to occur.
“We are all the time available in the market, we all the time attempt to enhance the squad so, after all, we’re conscious of gamers on the market and we’ve a plan we’re following, however no particular one for doubtlessly changing Ivan.”
Toney is just not the primary high-profile participant to be banned for offences associated to betting.
England defender Kieran Trippier, now with Newcastle, was banned for 10 weeks and fined £70,000 by the FA in 2020 after giving out info for others to wager on his switch from Tottenham to Atletico Madrid.
in 2017, Joey Barton was banned for 18 months, diminished to 13 on enchantment, whereas taking part in for Burnley after admitting putting 1,260 football-related bets over a 10-year interval.
