05-06-2025, 03:13 PM
(05-06-2025, 03:07 PM)Paplane Wrote:(05-06-2025, 02:18 PM)wassy04 Wrote:(05-06-2025, 11:54 AM)Sausage Roll Wrote:(05-06-2025, 11:32 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: The Athletic have published PSR estimates for season 24/25. They reckon Forest will come in a healthy £85m under the 3 year limit so plenty headroom as we suspected.
Only Villa in trouble with an estimated-£15m and need a sale.
Chelsea, Man City and Tottenham you ask? Well just the £300m under for them. Even Man utd £141m under. Nothing remotely suspect about this, move along now.
These rules are totally and utterly unfit for purpose.
I read that - what an absolute farce. Around Man U in particular - where PSR is calculated using a holding company's account.
I just can't believe everyone didn't vote to adjust the rules to cater for the Chelsea (/Derby) loophole. Makes you wonder why every team isn't just doing that right now if you can get away with it. Just seems ridiculous to me.
In defence of rules in general, they do (vaguely) stop Man City and Newcastle spending State unlimited money. Also, we did just have a 7 team race for the Champions League, including a team that previously finished 17th. Whilst Man Utd/Spurs languished in the relegation battle. So they do seem to have had some positive results, whether that is due to the rules or just the sheer amount of PL money is harder to tell.
I think what's happening is that firstly the psr rules post Everton/Forest are really biting average clubs now and making their life uncomfortable. It's ok voting for strict and tough psr rules but when the psr pressures arrive on your own doorstep then your mindset changes and you don't care if the big boys are taking the piss because your're not in direct competition with them anyway. You just look after yourself and don't want to be the next Everton, Forest, Leicester.
Secondly, I suspect the prem as a whole took the view that clubs doing their dodges by agreeing to sell each other players for overinflated prices was a really unedifying spectacle and damaging the premier league brand, as was points deductions, legal apeals affecting relegation places etc.
And lastly, the legal costs to prosecute all these psr cases are bourne by all of the prem clubs collectivley. Recently they've had Everton x2, us, Leicester and, most significantly, the Man City 115 charges where in that case the prem are charging a nation state who have infinate resource. The legal bill for that lot must run into multiple tens of millions of pounds and each and every club is having to fund that. Again, a lower prem club isnt going to give a S**t about Chelsea or Man City's shenanigans because they're running a different race to them but still having to fund the legals agaisnt them.
This is why we need a football regulator. Prem clubs will only look after themselves. They dont give a S**t about anything other.
100% I really hope the regulator will look at correcting PSR, ultimately teams will always vote for what's best for them. Newcastle, Villa and Forest are the problem really. We're voting with the Big Six and acting like them but don't have the income to match them! If the bottom 14 had teamed up ages ago they could literally change any PL rules and make it better for the rest of the league.
It is worth noting that Everton and Leicester have pushed it for years and deserve to be punished really. The issue we had could definitely be corrected, although we are now free from that burden finally.
