I've managed to cook this semi-plausible story up:
Berge and Ndiaye stay put. 'Gentleman's' agreement reached with EFL to settle the embargo and outstanding payments in the summer with various private assurances given that at worst we'd get a minor slap on the wrist.
Takeover goes through, we go up and everybody forgets about this business.
We get to mid July and everybody is wondering where the new signings are only for us to find out EFL have slapped us with a 2 window embargo we thought we'd avoided and we get treated to a full season of litigation talk.
Excellent.
We've had various random phenomena stopping our progress in its tracks over the years. For example
1: The 2nd world war from 1939 to 1945 when we'd just been promoted to the top flight with a really good side.
After a few games in 1939 were in 2nd place in the top flight, then the league was abandoned for the next 6 years due to us declaring war on Germany.
2: Relegated on the final day of the Premier League in 1994 in remarkable circumstances.
Everton needed to win their last match at home to Wimbledon in order to stay up. They were losing 0-2 at half-time.
They eventually come back in the 2nd half to win 3-2 however they score a goal where the shot is almost directly at Hans Segars in the Wimbledon goal.
It looked an easy save but weirdly he dives over the top of the ball and it's a soft goal conceded.
A few years later Segers is found to be involved in match fixing and deliberately allowing some goals to be scored.
Note: I've just checked out this match on Youtube and the Everton 1st goal is a very soft penalty.
3: The Tevez affair. One of our rivals somehow being able to bring in 2 top international players on the cheap, it was a kind of mysterious loan fee, which eventuality was found to have broken the rules, which West Ham tried to cover up. Tevez scored the decisive goal to keep West Ham up and relegated us on goal difference.
4: Covid 19 virus hit when we were 8th in the Premier League, the ground being sold out every match whilst we were challenging for a European spot, then the league was temporarily suspended and no fans allowed at our stadium for the next 18 months. We went from a Champions League chasing team to bottom of the league.
So being forced to take legal action against the EFL when they tell us we can't sign anyone next season would be a new one to add to the list.