Championship club facing six-point deduction that would send them tumbling down table

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Leicester City could find themselves slapped with a six point if charges of alleged breaches of Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) are proven.Three charges against the Foxes are set to be heard next week in their latest legal dispute with the Premier League.Leicester currently sit 12th in the ChampionshipGettyThe club are alleged to have breached PSR regulations during the 2023/24 campaign, when the club were last playing in the Championship. Leicester are also accused of failing to submit their annual accounts by the December 31 deadline.Meanwhile a further charge was brought for allegedly breaching their ‘obligation to provide full, complete and prompt assistance to the Premier League’.It has been reported that Leicester face a deduction of up to 12 points if the charges are proven.However, football finance expert Stefan Borson believes that six points is the likely outcome.He told White and Jordan on talkSPORT: “It’s actually very similar to the Nottingham Forest and the Everton cases in that they breached by around £20 million for 23/24. “That was a season when they were actually in the EFL. They then got promoted and the EFL passed the jurisdiction of the case over to the Premier League. So there was a case as to whether the Premier League were able to take care of the case or whether Leicester would successfully say, actually we’re not in anybody’s jurisdiction because we’re between divisions.“They did that with 22/23. They succeeded there, but they did not win that argument in relation to 23/24. So they were then charged by the Premier League.“They’re in breach by about £20 million. That’s around about 25 per cent above the £83 million target that they had because they had one season in the EFL. So two Premier League seasons and one EFL season.“That means that they had about £83m rather than the £105m. Leicester would drop down the Championship if the alleged breaches are provenGetty“There’s a lot of talk that they’re going to get 9 to 12 points because people have looked at the EFL guidance and said, well, in the EFL, you get 12 points.“Now, first of all, they are apparently defending the case, which means that they’re not going to admit it early. “That means that there’s a question over cooperation and around the documentation, which would mean that if it is found against them, they are not going to get mitigation.“If they’re not going to get mitigation, then what you’ve got is really the base for what this breach is. “I would say rather than it being the 12 points that you’ve heard about in the media or the nine points you’ve heard about in the media, that this will actually be probably three points plus another three. “Taking the previous cases in the Premier League that we’ve had, the Everton and Nottingham Forest cases, it looks like they’re broadly around three base points for a significant breach. How the bottom of the Championship would look if Leicester were deducted six points“£20 million is a significant breach and more or less about a point for every 6.5 million pounds or about three points for every 20 per cent over the limit.“So I think it’s around six points.”Leicester are currently 12th in the Championship on 21 points and a six point deduction would send them to 19th – just five points above the relegation zone.