Are Any Premier League Clubs Restricted By PSR This Summer?

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The official closing date for this summer’s transfer window is Monday 1st September, but there is another unofficial deadline day fast approaching, namely 30th June, which is the year-end for the 2024/25 accounts (at least for the vast majority of clubs).

As we saw last year, this date provoked a flurry of transfers, including a number of creative player swap deals, that helped a few clubs comply with the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Regulations (PSR).

Apart from a few accounting nerds, nobody had been overly concerned about PSR in the past, but the regulations have started to show their teeth, as the Premier League imposed points deductions on both Everton and Nottingham Forest for financial breaches, while it tried to do the same to Leicester City.

Now that all clubs have published their accounts for the 2023/24 season, we have a pretty good idea of what clubs will need to do in 2024/25 – or, put another way, how much money they can afford to lose.

Rules of the Road

For each of the 20 clubs that will compete in next season’s Premier League, we will provide the following analysis:

• Financial results for the 3 seasons from 2021/22 to 2023/24

• PSR position for the 3-year PSR monitoring period up to 2023/24

• How much each club can lose in 2024/25 and still comply with PSR

• Major movements in 2024/25: player sales, other once-off transactions, Premier League, UEFA competitions, FIFA Club World Cup

• Player sales 2024/25