[Martyn Ziegler, Times] Man United face fresh PSR challenge if they fail to reach Champions League

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  1. nearly_headless_nic on

    **Key bits:**

    – **£113.2million loss for last season, taking the club’s losses over three years to £254.7million**

    – well over the Premier League’s permitted PSR limit of £105million.

    – Clubs can adjust those losses for PSR calculations to take into account spending on the stadium, training facilities, and women’s and youth football, and **United appear to have complied with PSR by being permitted to claim a Covid loss of £40million for the 2021-22 season.**

    – The Covid claim was by far the highest of any Premier League club for that season — in fact United’s £40million Covid claim was double all the other 19 top-flight clubs combined. It is understood United claimed the £40million due to cancellation of their summer tour and bad debts caused by a commercial partner insolvency.

    – **Missing CL would result in a £10million penalty clause under United’s new deal with Adidas** being invoked for 2025-26

    – with **tens of millions more lost in broadcasting and match-day income.**

    – in 2023 club were fined €300,000 (about £250,000) by Uefa for breaching its FFP rules.

  2. Failing to attain Champions League football for two years in a row (never done before in the SAF era) would be disastrous. Give me that over a League Cup any day.

  3. WellYoureWrongThere on

    No chance in hell we make the CL. And even if we did, I can’t see us being nearly good enough to even compete next year. We’ve endured enough embarrassment.

  4. We lose a few games and we get articles like this.

    I am not saying the CL isn’t a issue. But I really don’t think INEOs would have done this without already putting a plan in for this.

    Remember the media said we only had £30m to spend this summer?

    The media don’t know shit about our finances.

  5. I remember the hard work we put in to get into the tournament, only to crash out painfully the following season on the manner we did. Friggin’ nightmare

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