PSR and the future

[Derek Hardballs]

For those that may know, once we have satisfied PSR presumably at the end of this season what happens next? 

• Do we have any money to spend? 
  
• Can we spend it? 
  
• If we do have money how do we keep within PSR and spend it? 
  
• How can we possibly move forward if we don’t have any money and a very limited squad to flog? 
  
• How do we bring through saleable assets if we aren’t going to play recent academy players? As depressing as it sounds I’m not seeing much past this approach for increasing our revenue. 
  

Genuinely don’t know how this works. 

[Logic1]

You need to remember, PSR and all these financial regulations are designed so that the big clubs (and Premier League clubs) maintain their competitive advantage. So unless we have amazing young players and manage to hold on to them long enough to be promoted until they are sold due to FFP then we have no chance of getting out of this league.

[Derek Hardballs]

You need to remember, PSR and all these financial regulations are designed so that the big clubs (and Premier League clubs) maintain their competitive advantage. So unless we have amazing young players and manage to hold on to them long enough to be promoted until they are sold due to FFP then we have no chance of getting out of this league.

Well that’s what I thought… but just one more manager, two, three more transfer windows and selling our best young player for £7m and then buying six new players etc for a relative pittance will see us succeed. 

To clarify then… we can’t spend money we don’t generate and to generate said money we have to continually follow this ludicrously anti-competitive rules of selling our best players not only to the Prem but to other Championship clubs because we currently have no way of making extra revenue apart from this. 

Whilst fans myopically look at replacing a head coach every twelve months in the vain hope we find another Megson.

[Birdman1811]

You're not wrong Derek.

It's why we need to actively be promoting and playing youth players, in the hope we generate enough to be able to build a squad that competes for one season, with the right man in charge and we go up.

Otherwise, we're stuck at this level, the final consequence of wasting our parachute payments on Steve fucking Bruce.

[fuzzbox]

This all assumes that psr will stay as it is. There's plenty of evidence to suggest it won't.

[Derek Hardballs]

You're not wrong Derek.

It's why we need to actively be promoting and playing youth players, in the hope we generate enough to be able to build a squad that competes for one season, with the right man in charge and we go up.

Otherwise, we're stuck at this level, the final consequence of wasting our parachute payments on Steve fucking Bruce.

Bruce and Val in my opinion but it’s a moot point now… I think we are fucked as a club and I’m probably bailing next year after 40 years as a season ticket holder… because the rules are rigged and I don’t see any proper plan by the club to bridge the gap financially for us to compete.

[Birdman1811]

You're not wrong Derek.

It's why we need to actively be promoting and playing youth players, in the hope we generate enough to be able to build a squad that competes for one season, with the right man in charge and we go up.

Otherwise, we're stuck at this level, the final consequence of wasting our parachute payments on Steve fucking Bruce.

Bruce and Val in my opinion but it’s a moot point now… I think we are fucked as a club and I’m probably bailing next year after 40 years as a season ticket holder… because the rules are rigged and I don’t see any proper plan by the club to bridge the gap financially for us to compete.

Val too, but it was salvagable after him, Bruce really fucked us up.

[Derek Hardballs]

This all assumes that psr will stay as it is. There's plenty of evidence to suggest it won't.

I’m hoping teams such as ourselves challenge the clearly anti-competitive PSR but I’m not convinced it’ll change, but let’s hope it is.

[TartanRug]

If you get the manager/head-coach right and have sensible recruitment, even without spending a load then the lower end of the playoffs is certainly possible - look who's up there this season for example some who's budget is lower than ours. So it's not a hopeless cause. It is difficult though.

[Squid]

From Nestor's recent statement:

As a result of the decisions taken during this period, and the 2023/24 losses rolling off, it is expected that the club will be in a strong position in regard to financial regulations and compliance heading into fiscal year 2026/27, allowing the club to build and invest without compliance as a primary concern.

So there you go. 2026/27, our owners can start to spend money and significantly invest in the club.