Ivan Toney: Football Association to block any attempt to get round ban by leaving England

Ivan Toney has scored 32 goals and provided 9 assists successful 68 Premier League appearances

Brentford striker Ivan Toney would beryllium blocked from immoderate effort to get astir his eight-month shot prohibition by joining a nine extracurricular England.

The ban, which the FA volition enforce, lone applies successful England.

But it is understood the governing assemblage volition use for the 27-year-old's suspension to widen worldwide.

That would forestall the striker from moving elsewhere connected indebtedness to service his punishment.

The FA is inactive to spot the autarkic panel's written reasons for Toney's ban.

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It is understood if Toney did determination distant from England, the FA would beryllium required to manus implicit the 27-year-old's registration.

At that point, it would archer satellite governing assemblage Fifa and the buying oregon loaning club's shot relation that Toney was banned, which would trigger the suspension to beryllium applied worldwide.

The FA did use to Fifa for a worldwide hold successful the cases of 2 different English players banned implicit betting regularisation breaches - Kieran Trippier and Daniel Sturridge.

More recently, Fifa accepted an exertion to widen a prohibition imposed by the Italian federation connected erstwhile Tottenham managing manager Fabio Paratici, a determination which prompted his resignation from Spurs.

Toney's suspension starts immediately, but helium volition beryllium allowed to instrumentality to grooming connected 17 September, 4 months earlier the playing prohibition expires.

His breaches took spot betwixt 25 February 2017 and 23 January 2021, during which clip helium represented Scunthorpe United, Wigan Athletic, Peterborough United and Brentford.

Toney has scored 20 goals successful 33 Premier League appearances this season, helping Brentford into ninth spot successful the table.

He volition miss Brentford's crippled astatine Tottenham connected Saturday (12:30 BST) and the last lucifer astatine location to league leaders Manchester City connected 28 May (16:30).

Toney, who has 1 England cap, is nether declaration astatine Brentford until 2025.