The Premier League's financial rules are forcing clubs to sell young stars against their wishes - just look at Elliot Anderson
The Premier League's financial rules are forcing clubs to sell young stars against their wishes - just look at Elliot AndersonThere will be a few wry smiles at St James’ Park if – as is being whispered in football circles – Elliot Anderson graduates into the
There is no top flight club or aspiring Championship side that doesn’t have full-time scouting roles in regions many hundreds of miles outside their own catchment areas. The whole Financial Fair Play facade is based on sustainability. If you lose too much money, its proponents say, you are putting the long-term future of your club at risk. But reducing the whole thing to an arbitrary set of numbers leaves aspiring clubs with nowhere to go and no margin for error.Take Newcastle, for example. If you speak to those who have devised the club’s strategy since the 2021 takeover, there is no sense of recklessness about the money invested.
There are alternatives, of course. Raising the PSR limit from its current ceiling of allowing £150m of losses across three years is one. As football finance expert Kieran Maguire points out, if it was index-linked to the revenues of Premier League clubs it would now be closer to £249m.Other, more creative, solutions have been raised in Premier League meetings.
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