Under-fire owner Steven Rosen has addressed the threat of a points deduction for the first time, insisting he cannot see any scenario in which Sheffield United are punished over the winding-up of COH Sports Bidco.

Steven Rosen, the co-chairman of Sheffield United, has broken his silence on the threat of a points deduction potentially hanging over the Blades after their latest off-field controversy, which saw their limited company wound up in the High Court. The dispute with former owner Prince Abdullah is ongoing.

And the Prince set tongues wagging recently when his United World company suggested, in a statement, that in the event of COH Sports Bidco - the company Rosen and his partner Helmy Eltoukhy used to buy the Blades in 2024 - being wound up, the EFL could impose a 12-point penalty on United.

The winding-up petition was granted without opposition from the Americans, who moved United into a new parent company - 1919 Partners LLC - earlier in the summer. The understanding is that neither the EFL or football regulator were aware they had done so before it was confirmed in a public statement.

Speaking on the first episode of a new Blades in America series on YouTube, Rosen faced questions on United for the first time. Multiple requests for interview from local media have been turned down since they arrived in 2024.

“Now, there's been some comment on what's going to be the fallout with the EFL,” he said. “Let me just comment on this. There’s only one real noise around points deductions and sporting sanctions, and Prince Abdullah put that out.

“Prince Abdullah and United World don't have power over the EFL to issue a points deduction. A former owner can't tell the EFL what to do. As much as he'd like to, that threat tactic ... he doesn't have that power.

“Other clubs, competitive clubs, self-servingly, I'm sure would love to see us or like to see us or enjoy us getting a points deduction, put us further down. Make it harder for us to compete.

“But clubs don't have power over the EFL. At no point was the club, the football club, insolvent. We pay our creditors on time, we pay our bills on time. The club itself.

“There's a little technicality there on whether or not a group company ... let's look at group companies. Well, COH is not a group company. That's not a group company of Sheffield.

“It's not the holder of Sheffield, it's not the holding company. So I can't see, in any scenario, where the club gets a points deduction because of that insolvency rule.

“It wasn't like Sheffield Wednesday, where they had an administrator and it went into insolvency, couldn't pay their bills and all that. That's not our situation.

“When I look to the future, which is really where I want to go and look to the future and not the past, I look to a much brighter future. We moved on from COH into this new world.

“We're bringing in some new investment partners, which I think many clubs are trying to do. I know, as you've read recently, there’s many a club who have brought in new investment partners to try to get better and bigger and build the academy. So that's our goal.”

Rosen’s confidence about avoiding a points deduction is not shared by other senior figures at the club, The Star has been told. The EFL and IFR are both still investigating whether rules have been broken.

And even after Rosen sat down with Nathan Zagura, a man who openly admits he has known Rosen for a long time, Unitedites are still none the wiser as to exactly why he and Prince Abdullah are in dispute, why the alleged - but undisputed - amount of £35m is still outstanding - and why their club is being dragged through the mud once more.