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With Rooney ruling himself out with a pulled-down baseball cap, a pork pie and a can of Stella, United are reportedly looking elsewhere for their saviour, but seriously, would you want any of them even taking care of your wheelie bin? Darren Fletcher, Michael Carrick and Ole Gunnar Solskjær…. Anfield had the Boot Room; Christ knows what you’d call United’s equivalent. Suffice to say, Rooney, tired and emotional in his camping chair, would do a better job than those three.

Since 2019-20 Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal have spent an average of €1.4bn on players. Over the same period, the remainder of the participants in the Premier League have averaged a total outlay of €537m. One club, Chelsea, has a spend in excess of €2bn, four other clubs, Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have a spend in excess of €1bn. One rule for them you say... hold my beer say the Premier League.

In August 2025, the Premier League fined Villa £125,000 for breaching multiball rules in five matches in 2024-25. Villa are also prohibited from operating the multiball system in its first three home league matches of 2025-26. The Premier League accuse Aston Villa’s ball boys of acting “deliberately and under instruction... with no other reason than to attempt to affect passages of play for the benefit of the Club.”

Villa look like they will be just below the PSR threshold for the three year period to 2024-25. They could even be as much as £10m to £20m below the PSR threshold if gate receipts and commerical income perform as well as has been suggested. Whatever the final outcome we know 2022-23's mammoth £120m loss is falling away and record revenues are still being delivered ahead of a third successive season in Europe.

What is PSR? * • PSR is the Premier League's 'Profitability and Sustainability Rules' as defined in the Section E.30 of the Premier League Handbook that governs the rules for the 'P&S Calculation' that underpins PSR

 What is the P&S Calculation? * • This is the aggregated sum of a club's Adjusted Earnings Before Tax for the relevant assessment period. * • The Premier League term this as T where T is the accounting period within which the currently active season ends.
 
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SCR requires the club to collect, hold and disclose a granularity of data that would ordinarily be an input into rather than a published output under general accounting rules.