Can Everton game the PSR system this summer?

[UltraVires]

With the PSR rules being confirmed as being in place for one more year before squad cost ratio coming into force, could Everton take advantage of that and the fact that we have a high number of players leaving in summer?

Based on my understanding of the current rules and the proposed rules in a years time, we could effectively take full advantage by:

Maximize Investment in Summer 2025 Before SCC Takes Effect

Because PSR still applies for 2025-26, we could make high up-front investments in player wages and transfer fees without immediate squad cost restrictions.

This means the club could focus on signing long-term contracts with high-value players, knowing that these wages will be constrained under the new rules from next year.

To do this, I think we could pay bigger signing-on fees rather than structuring high wages over multiple years. Additionally, we could agree heavily incentivised contracts where large portions of earnings are tied to 2025-26 rather than spread across future seasons.
Lastly, if I read it right, we could use the Chelsea amortisation trick to spread transfer costs over a longer period (e.g., six or seven-year deals).

I am sure smarter heads at the club will have looked into this than me but for me it seems with wise heads and smart spending (Moyes’ trademark) then we could benefit massively from the gap created by the move from one system to the other.

 

[Rita_Poon]

With the PSR rules being confirmed as being in place for one more year before squad cost ratio coming into force, could Everton take advantage of that and the fact that we have a high number of players leaving in summer?

Based on my understanding of the current rules and the proposed rules in a years time, we could effectively take full advantage by:

Maximize Investment in Summer 2025 Before SCC Takes Effect

Because PSR still applies for 2025-26, we could make high up-front investments in player wages and transfer fees without immediate squad cost restrictions.

This means the club could focus on signing long-term contracts with high-value players, knowing that these wages will be constrained under the new rules from next year.

To do this, I think we could pay bigger signing-on fees rather than structuring high wages over multiple years. Additionally, we could agree heavily incentivised contracts where large portions of earnings are tied to 2025-26 rather than spread across future seasons.
Lastly, if I read it right, we could use the Chelsea amortisation trick to spread transfer costs over a longer period (e.g., six or seven-year deals).

I am sure smarter heads at the club will have looked into this than me but for me it seems with wise heads and smart spending (Moyes’ trademark) then we could benefit massively from the gap created by the move from one system to the other.

I see.

Suddenly multi club ownership makes sense, I can for examples sake, buy Del Pierro for juventus and loan him at a loss to the side I own in the PL and thus create an advantage there. All above board and so a portfolio of clubs across different leagues means the capacity to stockpile players and move loans around between them all.

This is agent johnson and his deal, selling Simonsen to himself via Tranmere to Everton, but is a system now on steroids.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

No, they can’t and they’d be stupid to try

 

[Timbucktoo]

With the PSR rules being confirmed as being in place for one more year before squad cost ratio coming into force, could Everton take advantage of that and the fact that we have a high number of players leaving in summer?

Based on my understanding of the current rules and the proposed rules in a years time, we could effectively take full advantage by:

Maximize Investment in Summer 2025 Before SCC Takes Effect

Because PSR still applies for 2025-26, we could make high up-front investments in player wages and transfer fees without immediate squad cost restrictions.

This means the club could focus on signing long-term contracts with high-value players, knowing that these wages will be constrained under the new rules from next year.

To do this, I think we could pay bigger signing-on fees rather than structuring high wages over multiple years. Additionally, we could agree heavily incentivised contracts where large portions of earnings are tied to 2025-26 rather than spread across future seasons.
Lastly, if I read it right, we could use the Chelsea amortisation trick to spread transfer costs over a longer period (e.g., six or seven-year deals).

I am sure smarter heads at the club will have looked into this than me but for me it seems with wise heads and smart spending (Moyes’ trademark) then we could benefit massively from the gap created by the move from one system to the other.

Have we not done this before and got stuck with what we thought were high value players, based on how much we paid to get them, and ended up having a lot of them not do much for us and leave for nothing at the of 5 years of paying them top money.

 

[Vintage]

Have we not done this before and got stuck with what we thought were high value players, based on how much we paid to get them, and ended up having a lot of them not do much for us and leave for nothing at the of 5 years of paying them top money.

Ya would hate to go down the Chelsea route of 6 year + contracts. Maybe or may not de-motivate a player esp over a certain age and just happy to pick up him guaranteed wages. If the player turns out to be crap your stuck with him for that length of time until the contract is up and as you say we have had plenty of those.

 

[Goat]

Have we not done this before and got stuck with what we thought were high value players, based on how much we paid to get them, and ended up having a lot of them not do much for us and leave for nothing at the of 5 years of paying them top money.

Yes and then it hamstrung us till those contracts all expired.

PSR is easy to get around.

But nothing beats buying the right players for the right price.

 

[UltraVires]

Yes and then it hamstrung us till those contracts all expired.

PSR is easy to get around.

But nothing beats buying the right players for the right price.

That’s true. But I think the unique situation we are in this summer means we can take advantage of the upcoming changes and if we buy the right players we could make a bigger leap forward than we otherwise might be able to in one single window