Though as this is about how big a loss you are allowed to make, is it really going to matter to our owners?
Before the hardest thing to understand n football was the offside rule. Easily explained on a pub table with a few bottles and beer mats. Nowadays you need to have a degree in economics to understand, ffp or psr or whatever it is called and how it has changed in the last month or 12. The beautiful game eh?
It will be insanely difficult to stay up next season and if the new rules come to play, it is going to be impossible to stay up for any teams that get promoted to the PL. They are going to do absolutely everything to protect the top 6 clubs.
Does anyone know how big the point gap between 17th and 18th place in PL has been over the years? Is it getting wider?
A few years back it was a point or two. Teams often wentt down with 36 points. Scum have only 39 this season but are about 15 clear of the drop. As above discussion proves it’s now setup that the three coming up have basically no chance of hanging on. It’s a farce
It stinks. Effectively, you come up and have £22 million less to spend than the other 17 clubs unless you do as he says, break the rules like Forest, take the points deduction and hope you have enough to survive.
Red Bull sponsorship deal will be worth as much as we need. That's the bonus of having Red Bull as part owners. They can just make it up as they go along. Want to spend £300 million this summer? Well, funnily enough, Red Bull sponsorship is £250 million on promotion to the PL. Man City have done it for years.
Thing is who can take a chance on points deduction. Psr is a whole new concept and there is no precedent for the punishment. What’s the betting any newly promoted team would be docked ten points to keep them in bottom three
and for some contrast, here how the last 14 seasons of the old First Division looked. There were 22 teams in the top division at that time, so 19th was safe, also extra 4 games to earn points. added note prior to the 1981/82 season, it was only 2 point for a win, hence why QPR only achieved 25 points in 78/79
Its doing the rounds that Swansea had a clause in the Piroe transfer that stated we owe them an additional £1 million if he scored 20 goals in a season. His 20th goal was the one disallowed against Plymouth. That's another £1 million saved.
