Squad Ratio Rules?

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I’d be surprised if it gets voted through. There’s a lot of owners currently comfortable with funding losses.

The rules should be applied, it’s mad that clubs are allowed to outspend their revenue. In any other business they’d have been stopped years ago.
 
If it gets thru the accountants will be looking for ways around it. I’d expect to see assets split into different packages - grounds separated from staff costs so that rents for use of facilities are charged to the Clubs rather than the Clubs paying the full running costs.
 
Although not usually a guardian reader a decent article about the full ins and out, the idea is for Championship to align with the Premier League spending rules whilst League 1 is looking to align with League 2. If its the case that it goes through Player sales do count as income

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...lubs are voting on,at 85% of football revenue.

The Premier League rules are below, which if voted in favour of, presumably it will be a similar template.

https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4467022/new-premier-league-financial-system-explained
 
Greystones Blade said:
If it gets thru the accountants will be looking for ways around it. I’d expect to see assets split into different packages - grounds separated from staff costs so that rents for use of facilities are charged to the Clubs rather than the Clubs paying the full running costs.
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I can`t imagine that splitting out the costs for the ground necessarily will help.

SCR means you can`t spend more than a specific percentage of out income on your squad. Splitting outs costs doesn't help.

Your spot on the accountants will be all over it - I suspect a number of clubs will start finding "creative" ways to (on paper) increase their income.
 
radio said:
Might be the last time our neighbours get to vote on anything above league one level
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You’re mistaken, haven’t you heard? They’re going up back to back and champions league in 3 seasons

#Michael Jordan’s owls #reborn 2026
 
Apperantly the premier league are starting it from next season I can’t see us in favour of this neither are the other other big clubs
 
Can someone with a brain explain why scr is bad for us? Is it because the likes of Wrexham with big revenues will have a huge advantage?
 
calcalcal said:
Can someone with a brain explain why scr is bad for us? Is it because the likes of Wrexham with big revenues will have a huge advantage?
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It's mostly because we're the only club in the division losing parachute payments this year. It'll hit us instantly much harder than anyone else.

I otherwise think it's a good idea, but it'll most likely relegate us next season such is the amount we'd need to cut
 



bladesmanluke said:
It's mostly because we're the only club in the division losing parachute payments this year. It'll hit us instantly much harder than anyone else.

I otherwise think it's a good idea, but it'll most likely relegate us next season such is the amount we'd need to cut
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Hopefully a period of grace
 
Superblades said:
How much do we need to cut? Probably fucked all our transfer plans up going off what you have said.
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Don't know without having accurate and current wage bill details, but it'll be an enormous cut before we can sign anyone
 
Apparently clubs have been shadowing SCR rules over the last year so know what to expect . Not a bad thing if you have decent revenue and saleable players although profits from sales are smoothed over a 3 year period .

Spending 85% of revenue on squad costs sounds pretty sensible tbh.
 
The Fox said:
Apparently clubs have been shadowing SCR rules over the last year so know what to expect . Not a bad thing if you have decent revenue and saleable players although profits from sales are smoothed over a 3 year period .

Spending 85% of revenue on squad costs sounds pretty sensible tbh.
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Not just me then... literally posting

I might be reading this wrong but it looks like it was being set-up last year and it's based over the last 3 years that gives the figure.
https://www.efl.com/news/2025/april...rofit---sustainability-rules-approved-at-egm/

This means clubs will be limited to spending 85% of their total revenue on players/staff wages, transfers, and agent fees. Revenue includes players sales, with some extra allowance for owners to fund running costs (estimated to be approx £10mill)
 
Also on the flip side, this is where established academy clubs can start to improve, 20 out of 24 voted in favour. If we can continue our academy pipeline, its pure cash injection or squad improvements where we don't need to splash the cash to acquire players. Although it's not said who hasn't voted in favour, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a new money teams that don't have the infrastructure and academy currently in place.
 
Theres another vote which might be an issue for the spendageddon at S6


League One clubs, in contrast, are voting on whether to have greater alignment with League Two by reducing permitted spending under the salary cost management protocol (SCMP) from 60% to 50% of turnover.
 
The Fox said:
Theres another vote which might be an issue for the spendageddon at S6


League One clubs, in contrast, are voting on whether to have greater alignment with League Two by reducing permitted spending under the salary cost management protocol (SCMP) from 60% to 50% of turnover.
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Surely it will benefit the pigs as with 20k attendances being twice that of most other league one clubs they’ll be able to spend more than the other clubs in the league.
 
Makes perfect sense to me and makes sure football teams survive otherwise what happened to the pigs would become the norm..

Football might even stand a chance of becoming more affordable moving forward.

Also if we spend £1M on a Cannon or Brewster moving forward its alot more palatable than what we actually spent.
 
calcalcal said:
Can someone with a brain explain why scr is bad for us? Is it because the likes of Wrexham with big revenues will have a huge advantage?
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Because we already lose money, which means we need to cut costs even further rather than splurging on transfers and wages.
 



The Fox said:
Theres another vote which might be an issue for the spendageddon at S6


League One clubs, in contrast, are voting on whether to have greater alignment with League Two by reducing permitted spending under the salary cost management protocol (SCMP) from 60% to 50% of turnover.
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If I was conspiracy theorist minded I'd suggest this is why they were 'let off' with the squad restrictions next season - the business plan will be below the suggested limited anyway.
 
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