United successfully pass PSR

davidmichael

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https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...ews/man-city-manchester-united-learn-30776820

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-league-psr-charges-live-34474494.amp

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/2000141/Man-Utd-Premier-League-clubs-PSR-charges/amp

That’s a massive relief as I genuinely worried about where we were financially and how it would impact Amorim in his job as needs players to come in and fit his system, I won’t pretend to fully understand PSR but does this mean we can now spend in January as long as we get rid of the deadwood in the summer ?
 
I was worried Jim had sacked our accountants, so it’s a relief we do have someone keeping an eye on this
 
I was worried Jim had sacked our accountants, so it’s a relief we do have someone keeping an eye on this
Ratcliffe showing ten Hag the new accounting department
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Does that mean we can splash the cash for a couple of new players?
There is a myth that PSR is the only reason we can't spend. The club has been running on operational losses for a while. Our debts, including transfer debts are huge.
 
I personally think PSR is a load of rubbish, clubs should be able to spend what they want.....if idiot owners spend what they don't have then that's on them. PSR is in nature....anti-competitive, i'm amazed the big PL clubs haven't legally challenged it. Especially the likes of City, Chelsea and Newcastle.

If an owner passed the Fit and Proper Test before acquiring a club, that should be enough to show they are of right competence to spend within their means surely!?
 
I personally think PSR is a load of rubbish, clubs should be able to spend what they want.....if idiot owners spend what they don't have then that's on them. PSR is in nature....anti-competitive, i'm amazed the big PL clubs haven't legally challenged it. Especially the likes of City, Chelsea and Newcastle.

If an owner passed the Fit and Proper Test before acquiring a club, that should be enough to show they are of right competence to spend within their means surely!?
I disagree, and you only have to look at Leeds, Portsmouth, Reading, Derby, Notts County, Bury etc...to see why.

Fans of rivals teams complain about PSR and claim it's designed to protect the status quo, and their might be some of that thinking in the minds of top clubs when they voted it in. However, the PSR ruling were passed by a majority, and their general purpose is to stop clubs spending well beyond their means and falling into bankruptcy.

Their have been more examples of terrible owners driving clubs to the brink than good, benevolent owners coming in willing to endlessly bankroll clubs.

The irony of the fans of clubs bleating about PSR is that the same fans start bleating on about "duty of care" the minute it turns sour for their club.
 
Im pretty sure this will have no bearing on whether or not we can spend in the current transfer window as this PSR check was for the period up to June 2024 so wont have included the 250-300m wasted by keeping and then firing Eth and his staff or the cost of hiring Ruben Amorim and his staff.
 
250-300m wasted by keeping and then firing Eth and his staff or the cost of hiring Ruben Amorim and his staff.

Interesting line.

So this assumes that you think we should have kept Ten Hag? because regardless when we sacked him and hired Amorim, we would have had to pay money anyway.

Also, you think that the players signed in the summer are rubbish, as you think it was wasted money?

Ugarte, De Ligt, Yoro, Mazroui shouldn't have been signed? probably 2/3 of our best players this season.
 
Interesting line.

So this assumes that you think we should have kept Ten Hag? because regardless when we sacked him and hired Amorim, we would have had to pay money anyway.

Also, you think that the players signed in the summer are rubbish, as you think it was wasted money?

Ugarte, De Ligt, Yoro, Mazroui shouldn't have been signed? probably 2/3 of our best players this season.
Didnt we add a year to Ten Hags contract a couple of months before firing him? That would add to the cost of parting ways with him I'd assume.
 
Didnt we add a year to Ten Hags contract a couple of months before firing him? That would add to the cost of parting ways with him I'd assume.

We also hired a few new staff for him who all had to be paid off only a few months in to their contracts and we let him spend another 200m+ on new players some of which a different manager wouldnt have signed.
 
This is a bit dull. If we're keeping this they should do it like a cup draw. Draw clubs from a bowl and declare if they passed after each is drawn. If they don't pass draw punishments from another bowl (consequences in football have always been so random we might as well make it fun).
 
We also hired a few new staff for him who all had to be paid off only a few months in to their contracts and we let him spend another 200m+ on new players some of which a different manager wouldnt have signed.
That's the case with any managerial change, but the last ETH window was relatively good, only Zirkzee might be considered questionable and the jury is out on him
 
'Successfully' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the thread title.
 
We still shouldn't go crazy this winter. Osimhen, Kvaradona and Mendes this January. Nothing extravagant.