Battered Sausage
Matchday Squad
Looks like we're doubling down on the "unique" angle - that being that the majority of clubs promoted to the PL and the 2 sides we came up with all had squads containing PL quality players and had benefitted from parachute payments in the past etc so therefore we (and indeed any future) clubs that are unexpectedly promoted HAVE to spend big to have a hope in hell of staying up so therefore some leeway should be given and that we probably shouldn't have been restricted to the P&L level that we were judged against.... the PL challenged this whole line saying:
"The Commission does question the use of “unique” in Forest’s submissions. It was clear from Mr Brown’s report that 12 other clubs over the last 10 years of the Premier League (so 13including Forest) had been promoted without the benefit of a Parachute Payment the year before. They then joined a league where the other 17 teams all had a Premier League squad and, in the main, would have the benefit of the full £105m PSR Threshold. This is not a unique occurrence, rather it is something that has happened every season in the previous 10 seasons, on average"
What would be Interesting is to test how many stayed up over a prolonged period where they were able to then cumulate the higher spending thresholds
I suspect it may work against them.
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