{"id":533676,"date":"2023-10-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=533676"},"modified":"2023-10-30T06:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T06:15:15","slug":"kieran-maguire-reveals-what-he-really-thinks-about-newcastle-united-taking-sandro-tonali-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/kieran-maguire-reveals-what-he-really-thinks-about-newcastle-united-taking-sandro-tonali-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Kieran Maguire reveals what he really thinks about Newcastle United taking Sandro Tonali legal action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Newcastle United will not pursue any legal action against AC Milan over Sandro Tonali&#8217;s betting suspension.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is the opinion of finance expert Kieran Maguire, who exclusively told <strong>Football Insider <\/strong>that the Magpies will not risk paying expensive legal costs without having any evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12645667\/Newcastle-consider-legal-options-52m-Sandro-Tonali-risk-12-month-ban-illegal-betting-boss-Eddie-Howe-faces-big-decision-play-midfielder-weekend.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>, Newcastle are considering &#8216;all legal action&#8217; after Tonali was handed a 10-month suspension due to illegal betting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242515607-1-1024x703.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-446501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242515607-1-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242515607-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242515607-1-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242515607-1-1140x783.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242515607-1-750x515.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2022\/08\/GettyImages-1242515607-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tyneside club will &#8216;attempt to determine how much Milan and Tonali knew of the investigation&#8217; before they agreed to a \u00a352million transfer this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As revealed by <strong>Football Insider, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/revealed-newcastle-united-set-for-7m-blow-if-sandro-tonali-is-banned\/\">Newcastle are set to continue paying Tonali his \u00a37million per year wages during his suspension<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maguire believes Newcastle have no hope of winning a legal battle because there is no evidence that Milan had any knowledge of Tonali&#8217;s addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>When it comes to a legal battle over Sandro Tonali\u2019s ban, Newcastle have got two hopes &#8211; slim and none, and slim&#8217;s out of town<\/em>,&#8221; Maguire told <strong>Football Insider&#8217;s <\/strong>Sean Fisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>I\u2019ve heard from a few sources this morning that it&#8217;s essentially a non-option.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>So there\u2019s already a very remote possibility of this going forwards.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>There&#8217;s no evidence that Milan had any knowledge of Sandro Tonali\u2019s illness or addiction.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2023\/08\/Sandro-Tonali--1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Newcastle\" class=\"wp-image-522579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2023\/08\/Sandro-Tonali--1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2023\/08\/Sandro-Tonali--300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2023\/08\/Sandro-Tonali--768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2023\/08\/Sandro-Tonali--1140x760.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2023\/08\/Sandro-Tonali--750x500.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/static\/uploads\/1\/2023\/08\/Sandro-Tonali-.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Therefore, it would be a very, very tenuous route that Newcastle would have to go down.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I have a suspicion they will do an assessment and find that the legal costs will significantly outweigh the probability of a successful claim against Milan.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-newcastle-united-now-expected-to-agree-january-loan-signing\/\">Newcastle United now expected to agree January loan signing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United will not pursue any legal action against AC Milan over Sandro Tonali&#8217;s betting suspension. That is the opinion of finance expert Kieran Maguire, who exclusively told Football Insider that the Magpies will not risk paying expensive legal costs without having any evidence. As reported by the Daily Mail, Newcastle are considering &#8216;all legal <em>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":532020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[4,1044,18923],"tags":[307],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533769,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533676\/revisions\/533769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}